Hundreds of volunteer firemen iought a furious prairie blaze from spreading and reaching large stores of dynamite in a magazine near here today. The fire has already detonated powder in eight buildings of the Hercules Powder Plant but fortunately no one was in the vicinity at the time and there were no deaths report. ed. If the fire reaches the dynamite magazine disastrous effects may follow, it was feared.—United Press. morning saw us on the ferry at 630 and soon afterwards we were back in Hankow after a nerve-racking 36 hours in which we had accomplished simply nothing, most of us determined never to attempt the trip again.
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