SIX KILLED.
EXPLOSION TRAGEDY. Two Families Buried When Houses Collapse. BRAVE RESCUER'S SACRIFICE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 27. Six -were killed and 17 injured in an explosion at" Gateshead, which is believed to have been due to a steam excavator in the roadway damaging a gas main. Two houses collapsed, burying two families. Adjoining premises were wrecked. Fire followed the explosion and many were injured and seriously burnt. Rescuers worked at great risk owing to falls of red hot bricks. William Hood, a relative of the- victims, was himself injured when he climbed the ruins and fixed a rope to a tottering chimney stack, which he felled safely. William Devenport, 07, was pinned beneath beams but successfully protected his bnby granddaughter for an hour until he was rescued. He staggered out carrying the child, but collapsed and died.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
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142SIX KILLED. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
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