FORTY BELIEVED DEAD
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FRENCH FACTORY BLOWS UP WORKERS CAUGHT IN DEBRIS THREE BODIES R EGO VEfRED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1.45 p.m., to-day. PARIS, Dec. IS. The whole district was shaken when a. calcium carbide factory near Toulouse blew up. Over 100 workers were caught ip the falling debris and those who escaped owed their lives to the unusual lightness of the structure, which was built of plaster blocks. Terrified men and women dragged themselves screaming from the wreckiige. It is. feared that 40 have been killed, although only three bodies have thus far been recovered. Eleven have been sent to hospital seriously burned.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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