Gas-train blast
X’ZPA-Reuter Dallas! Two railway carriages ’oaded with liquefied petrolturn gas have exploded in in- , dustrial north-east Dallas, flames leaping 230 netres (700 ft into the air. Fite blast was felt skm (3 ■ niles) away. Firemen said that they)' ■ ere unable to control the blaze. . ; No injuries were reported,!; out the police, fearing that?
two other carriages containing chemicals might catch fire and give off poisonous fumes, urged people living nearby to leave their homes A police spokesman said that some looting begar shortly after the first few families quit their homes. The goods train carryin; the petroleum gas was de railed, but the police saic they did not -know whethe this occurred before or afte the explosions.
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Press, 22 February 1977, Page 8
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