SEWER GAS EXPLODES
IN SYDNEY STREET.
REMARKABLBE EFFECTS.
(Received July 26 at 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 25. Four children had a remarkable escape from death while playing in the street at Chippendale. When one little boy dropped a lighted match down a sewerage manhole “just to see what would happen,” there was a tremend ous explosion. The four children wers hurled into the air, and were badly injured.
The windows in the buildings for bun.drdeds cf feet around were shattered, while a horse and sulky that were standing nearby were almost lifted into the air by the force’ of tue explosion. The animal itself was enveloped in a sheet of flame, its tail, mane and hair being practically all burnt off.
The children were sent to the hospital. One of them, Vincent Dory, aged five years is in a serious conditic.i.
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Grey River Argus, 27 July 1925, Page 5
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