EXPLOSION OF PETROL
LORRY COLLIDES WITH TRAIN. FOUR PARIS HOUSES DESTROYED driver burned to death. i (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) PARIS, October 36. The suburb of Longjumeau was thrilled at midnight by a lorry laden with 1000 gallons of petrol colliding with a roadside shuttle train. The lorry caught lire and 20 drums exploded in rapid succession, burning the driver to death and setting fire to and destroying four houses, in one of which a wedding was being celebrated. Though the train was partially derailed the driver managed to haul the train clear and avoid a holocaust.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 14, 27 October 1932, Page 5
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