2 MILES OF STREET EXPLOSIONS.

Mataura Ensign, 24 April 1913, Page 5

2 MILES OF STREET EXPLOSIONS.

An explosion followed by a fire ocenrr<vl t'n' otiii'i" ni;rht i.n i nuinhole is connection with the electric tramway svsten) in the centre of Lwlion. Soon (lames burst from dozen*, of manholes along tho streets to the tramway eitar tion alxmt two miles away. The explosions, :'. i«> to tho aormnmlation of gas in the n:«nholo, <ia.ii.sed w'i!<'.> of panic in t,h« .streets. Women tainted and wv!> trodden under foot bv vhe (i-D.viis. i\ <i;>!« rushed for S:>e-*V into shiVK :ii!'-l "l ;v'iM'.s. liater another explosion took place, and six nun wvre :-eriou-■ •>• injux*! ; nd burned, among.them Mr Harry Finch, an English engineer, who •;; in camvr of losing his sight.