Terrific Explosion in Southern France
FORTY DEATHS FEARED,
PARIS, Dec. 19,
Tho whole district was shaken wlidn a calcium carbido factory near Toulouse, a southern French city, blew up. Over 100 workers were caugli-t in the falling debris. Tkoso who escaped owed their lives to the unusual lightness of tho structure, which was built of plaster blocks. Terrified men and women dragged themselves, screaming, from the wrcck-
It is feared that 40 have been killed although only three bodies have thus far been recovered. Eleven have been sent to hospital, seriously injured.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7412, 20 December 1930, Page 7
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