FATAL EXPLOSION
GASOMETER IN ENGLAND
TWO COUSINS KILLED
}VI7ES AS WITNESSES Catted Press .Association—lsy Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 19, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. Exploding with a sheet of flame and a vast plume of smoke, a gasometer at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, of 1,250,000 cubic feet capacity, blew ofl; its cover and killed Messrs. Samuel and James Gledhill, cousins, whose bodies were discovered among the debris. Messrs. Herbert Hinchcliffe and Joseph Rhodes were injured.
Rhodes said lhat he and Samuel Gledhill were outside the meter house and James Gledhill was inside. The explosion blew Rhodes some distance, and Hinchcliffe was stooping to help him when he was caught by the full blast of the fire and a shower of slates and stones, but he saved his companion's life.
Doctors, nurses, and a fire brigade were quickly on the spot. The firemen prevented the ignition of an adjacent gasometer containing 750,000 cubic feet of gas.
The explosion cut ou" the supply of a portion of Dewsbury, and damaged surrounding works.
The victims' wives lived opposite the works and saw the explosion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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