Westport, Connecticut, USA (Green's Farms)
1946 - ONE KILLED IN TRUCK BLAST.

Westport, Conn. - (AP) - State police at Westport barracks said Thursday night a fireman was killed and "ten or twelve" others badly burned when a large trailer truck which had left the road and overturned, caught fire and exploded.

At Norwalk hospital a spokesman said that "ten or twelve" men apparently "very badly injured" had been brought to the hospital. No names were available, the hospital reported.

At state police headquarters the desk officer said that a detail had been dispatched to the scene of the accident, which occurred shortly before 11 p.m. on the Boston post road a mile from the center of the town.

An officer on duty at the Westport fire headquarters said he had only fragmentary information as the department still was at the scene, but he understood that the injuries occurred when "something in the truck's cargo" exploded.

Kingsport News
Tennessee
May 3, 1946

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