HOLBORN EXPLOSION
POST OFFICE LINESMAN DIES FROM INJURIES
(Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 27, 9.50 p.m.)
London, December 26.
Percy Thrower, a post office linesman, referred to in the message in connection with the Holborn gas explosion, has died in hospital. [The linesman descended a man"hole to connect a blower with an electric switch. A few minutes later a sheet of flame rushed up. The man managed to scramble out, but he was terribly burned. This is the only fatality reported as a result of the explosion.]
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 80, 28 December 1928, Page 9
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