FACTORY BLOWS UP
DISASTER HEAR TOULOUSE MANY LIVES LOST Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, December IS. (Received December 19, at 10.10 a.ru.) The whole district was shaken when a calcium carbide factory near Toulouse blew up. Over 100 workers were caught in tho falling debris. Those who escaped owed their lives to the unusual lightness of the structure, which was built of plaster blocks. Terrified men and women dragged themselves screaming from the wreckage. It is feared that forty people have been killed, although only three bodies have thus far been recovered. Eleven people had been sent to hospital seriously burned.
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Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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