GAS EXPLOSION.
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED.
DAMAGE AT GENEVA.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received August 24, 10.50 p.m.)
Geneva, August 24. An explosion at the gasworks in Geneva killed seven employees and injured one. '
' The gasometer was demolished, and great damage done in the vicinity, every window within a radius of two miles being smashed.
The fragments of glass from . the shattered windows injured 60 in the streets. . .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14148, 25 August 1909, Page 7
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