Two Mysterious Explosions Damage Sunshine Clubhouse, Daily Racing Form, 1955-06-16

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Two Mysterious Explosions Damage Sunshine Clubhouse TAMPA, Fla., June 15. — Two mysterious explosions late Tuesday night damaged the deserted clubhouse of the Sunshine Park race track near here an estimated 0,000. Puzzled investigators could establish no motive immediately for the dynamitings at the track which had been closed since the racing season ending March 15. One blast was set off in an elevator shaft on the first floor and the other in the "money room" on the second floor. Sheriffs Lt. Archie Adair estimated total damages at 0,000. Track president W. Frank Hobbs, a Tampa attorney, said damage to £he glfcx vator and §ha.ffc in the clabhsuse amounted to ,B66. Adair and Hobbs, who said there was no money in the building, were at a loss to explain the reasons anyone might have had for dynamiting the structure.


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