LONDON MENACED.

Grey River Argus, 15 January 1929, Page 5

LONDON MENACED.

FROM UNDERGROUND. Further Sensations. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Jan 14 at p.m.) LONDON, January 14 ‘‘What is the matter with, underground London?” This is a question that is due to a series of breakages in the watermains following the recent H ft lborn gas disaster, and there was also a big gas escape at Oxton yesterday, resulting in a woman being killed, and fifteen other persons being seriousily gas poisoned. There were exciting scenes wl4 n someone smelling ga.., gave an alarm, Scores of irL'H and women and children hurried into the street in their night cloiheis. Sonv were sick ana dazed, while others were rescued from their beds in an unconscious state. Il is a miracle that tht?. death roll was not larger. A watermain also burst in Edgeware Road, the water erupting at numerous points over a radius of half a mile. The wafi-T lifted the wood blocks and broke up the macadamised roads likeHjrown papet.