PARIS GAS EXPLOSION.
WAITER LOOKS FOR LEAK.
WITH A LIGHTED CANDLE.
LONG LIST OF CASUALTIES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. Paris, September 3. A gas escape occurred in the cellar of a cafe in the industrial quarter of the city to-day. A waiter went to search for the leak with a lighted candle, and a violent explosion followed.
The unfortunate man was at once killed. The floor collapsed, and the customers, the proprietor and his family were precipitated in a struggling heap into the cellar. The house next caught fire, and one of the occupants was killed, while 20 were injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15398, 5 September 1913, Page 7
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