CHARLESTON FIRE BURNT OUT
Petrol Storage Tank Destroyed (N.Z. Press Association—CoiHinqht) CHARLESTON (South Carolina). October 2. A 2.000.000-gallon petrol storage tank, for 24 hours a roaring mass of flames, burned down to a blackened, buckled hulk today with tongues of flames still crackling about it. Nine persons were injured in the pre-dawn explosion yesterday. Authorities said the cause of the blast was still undetermined. All nine casualties were negro residents of three small houses demolished by the explosion.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29017, 5 October 1959, Page 6
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