AWFUL SCENES IN AMERICAN HOSPITAL DISASTER
Poison Gas Overwhelms Patients and Staff
NINETY DEAD AND MANY INJURED
Australian Press Association. CLEVELAND (Ohio), May 15. Three explosions wrecked the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, after which a fire broke out. Ninety-five arc known to he dead, apd possibly a hundred injured. Two hundred persons were believed to be in the building when the blasts occurred. Unofficial reports declared that the explosion was caused by an X-ray machine in the basement shortly before noon, and then within fifteen minutes chemicals in the pharmacy exploded, firing the building and spreading deadly fumes. A third explosion shook the structure several minutes later while the police and firemen inside were attempting rescue work.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6911, 17 May 1929, Page 7
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