EXPLOSION ON LIGHTER.
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED. (si CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIGHT.') (SETTIEa'S TELIGEAMS.) BERLIN, March 25. The oil lighter Saturn exploded in Hamburg harbour, flinging ■wreckage on to the streets. Seven pedple were killed and three injured. The explosion was apparently caused by repair men using oxygen blowers before the tank was emptied of gas. So tremendous was the explosion that the victims and a half-ton anchor were hurled hundreds of yards over roofs.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18342, 27 March 1925, Page 9
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