DEADLY GAS
FLOODS DAMAGED FACTORY. , RESULT OF EXPLOSION A FRENCH DISASTER. BY CABLE- PBESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. PARIS. Dec. 14. An explosion at a factory at Saint Auban, the cause of which was not ascertained, occurred during working time. The roof caved in and the walls trembled. A deadly gas flooded the building. Many workers were imprisoned and asphyxiated, though firemen and relief workers with gas masks made a gallant struggle to save the injured. The factory employed 1500. Those killed inducted Algerians, Russians and Portuguese.
THE CASUALTIES. Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. PARIS, Dec. 14. 'The Saint Aubon fatalities number 23. There are also 30 seriously gassed and file precariously gassed. The quantity of compressed chloride which exploded measured 10 cubic metres.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 December 1926, Page 7
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125DEADLY GAS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 December 1926, Page 7
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