ROARING EXPLOSION
CABLE TUNNEL ORIGIN TERRIFYING- FLAMES. HOSPITAL WINDOWS SHATTERED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 11.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Tills Day. Thirty windows of Melbourne Hospital -wove smashed and a woman attendant badly cut by flying glass when an explosion occurred in an underground electric tunnel. • The manhole cap was blown 101 l feet in the air, and the roar of the explosion was heard all over the city. Flames burst from the tunnel, and the steel cover descended on electric light wires, bringing them to the ground.
Spontaneous combustion is believed to be responsible.
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Northern Advocate, 11 June 1929, Page 6
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