EXCITING SCENES.
GAS AND WATER MAINS BREAK
ONE KILLED AND 15 INJURED
AT HOXTON
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LONDON, Jan. 14 What is the matter with underground- London p This is the question due to a series of breakages of watermains following the recent Holborn gas disaster and a big escape of gas at Hoxton yesterday, resulting in a woman being killed and 15 others seriously gas-poisoned. There were exciting scenes when someone smelling gas gave the alarm. Scores of men, women and children hurried into the street in their night clothes. Some were sick and dazed, while others were rescued from their beds unconscious. It is a miracle that the death rate was not larger. A water main burst in Edgeware Road, water erupting at numerous points over a radius of half a mile, lifting wood blocks and breaking up macadamised roads- like brown paper.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 5
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153EXCITING SCENES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 5
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