GAS EXPLOSION
UNEQUALLED IN BRITAIN.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE, A TORRENT OF FIRE.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Dec. 20.
Britain has not known anything to equal the explosion at High Holborn. A district of a mile long and half a mile wide will be deprived of every public service for some weeks. The traffic dislocation as the worst in London’s history. Business is at a standstill!. The repairs' will cost £50,000. Seventeen victims have been taken to hospital.
A manhole cover weighing four hundredweight was thrown into tlie air- and crashed through the roof of a threestorey house, and came to rest on a bed on the first floor. A torrent of fire roared fifty feet into the air from a crater in High Street. A fissure (several hundred yards long spouted fire.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 December 1928, Page 9
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138GAS EXPLOSION Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 December 1928, Page 9
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