WAVE OF TREACLE
BELGIAN TOWN MENACED. LONDON, Feb. 5. Thousands of tons of treacle and creosote, released, by the cold from their tanks, meimeed the old town of Bruges in Belgium. 'The treacle —6400 tons of it- had just, been discharged from the London steamer Afhelmore into storage tanks ".’hen it broke loose. Owing, it. is believed, to the metal ol the tanks contracting in the sudden cold 421)0 tons of treacle burst, through tile steel plates of one tan!: and spread over the ground. Moving forward like a wave it over-turned another tank containing 2200 tons of treacle, and : r third receptacle in which was 150 tons of creosote.
In its progress the mixture of treacle and creosote broke through wall, spread among coke furnace im-'iallntiotis, and overturned several waggon-loads of coke. Leto at night, just. as. the mass of treacle and creosote was threatening the generating plant of the. town's gas works, it froze solid.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 2
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