EXPLOSION MISSILES
HURTLED GREAT DISTANCES.
NUMEROUS NARROW ESCAPES,
RESIDENT'S STARTLING SHOCK,
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 0.25 p.m.) - SYDNEY, .Tune .11
Windows were shattered and fragments of iron and other metal hurled several hundred feet in the air when the explosion occurred this morning, in a Leichhardt dairy, of an ammonia cylinder which became heated in a small outbreak of fire. The dairy was utterly wrecked. '
Firemen, employees and spectators had remarkable escapes from injury. One piece of iron crashed through the roof of a yards away, just missing the owner, who was seated in the kitchen.
The firemen called to extinguish the small fire had hardly begun their work when there was a terrific detonation, and flames towered to the height of 200 feet. The roof was lifted completely from the building.
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Northern Advocate, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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