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UNDERGROUND LONDON
GAS AND WATER LEAKAGES
Australian Press Association,
LONDON, 14th January
What is the matter with underground London'? This is a question due to a series of breakages in water-mains following the recent Holboru gas disaster, and a big gas escape at Oxton yesterday, resulting in a woman being killed and fifteen others spriously gas poisoned. •
There were exciting scenes when someone, smelling gas, gave the alarm. Scores of men, women, and children hurried into the street in their nightclothes. Some were sick and dazed, while others were rescued from their beds unconscious. It is a miracle, that the death rate was not larger. A water-main burst "in Edgeware road, the water erupting at numerous 'points over a radius of half a mile, lifting the wood-blocks and breaking \ip the macadamised .roads like brown paper.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 9
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