CABLE EXPLOSION.
Manhole Cover Hurled 150 Feet In Air. damage to hospital. (Received 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Thirtv windows of the Melbourne Hospital were smashed and a. woman attendant badly cut by flying glass when an explosion occurred in an underground electric cable tunnel. A manhole cap was blown 150 feet in the air and the roar of the explosion was heard a^T over the city. Flames burst from the tunnel ana the steel cover descended on electric lioht wires, bringing them to the ground. Spontaneous combustion is believed y o be responsible for the eruption,
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 136, 11 June 1929, Page 7
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97CABLE EXPLOSION. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 136, 11 June 1929, Page 7
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