GASOMETERS EXPLODE.
.SEVENTEEN MISSING. BIGGEST GAS-RESERVOIR IN TflE WORLD. IBy Telocr»ph.-t'roi« lu.odatlnn -Govyrleliu 4 Berlin, December 8. A partly-finished gasometer exploded at the frco port, Hamburg. The flames exploded another gasometer, the largest in tho world, with a capacity-of '20,000 cubic (7,062,800 cubio feet), containing 40,000 moire's (U12,5C0ft.) of gaa. A huge shiiet of flame shot'.out, killing ovoryone in its palh. Seventeen persons are dead or missing. The gasworks, which cost 11,000,000 marks, are in ruins.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 7
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76GASOMETERS EXPLODE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 7
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