ANOTHER GAS EXPLOSION
AT A RAILWAY STATION. FLAMES SPREAD EXTENSIVELY. f-resa Association—By Electric Telegracn Copyright.) (“Times” Gables.) LONDON, Dee. 24. . The Berlin correspondent of “The Times ’ ’ states that an explosion resembling the recent London upheaval occurred at a railway station,, when an oil gas pipe leading underneath the rails, from which gas receptacles in the passenger coaches were filled) became leaky. The gas percolated upwards and was set afire by some means. A series of violent explosions followed, the flames spreading for several hundreds. of square yards and stopping traffic on 55 sets of lines.
Firemen were several hours controlling the outbreak.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1928, Page 4
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