Gas Leakage Caused Explosion In Ottawa
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to start flowing during the night of October 24 and the morning of October 25, 1958 ” Mr Anderson, the jury said, died of second and third-degree burns, complicated by pneumonia and shock resulting from the explosion. Shortly before the jury retired to consider its verdict, it heard an explosives expert testily that natural gas exploding with the force of half a ton of T.N.T. caused the blast.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28747, 19 November 1958, Page 15
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