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-j ‘j BIG CONFLAGRATION. j | LIGHTED CIGARETTE. j EXPLODES CHEMICAL FUMES. (Received 9.10 a.m.) ; SYDNEY, This Day. J Fumes from polish used in new i premises being constructed for the Commercial Union Assurance Company: j in the city escaped through a window j and came in contact with the lighted cigarette of a passer-by. A terrific explosion followed and the place was immediately a sheet of flame. ■ • Three workmen, in endeavouring to extinguish the fire, were severely burned, and we're taken to hospital. | Extensive damage was done before • the outbreak was subdued.—A.N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 11 June 1926, Page 5
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