EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO
4,000,000 CUBIC FEET OF GAS STREETS SWEPT BY ft A ME. FORTY PERSONS INJURED. By TeleffrAph—Preo» Association—Copysri*ht (Receded 8.5 p-m.) A. and N.Z. CHICA(K). July SI. Forty persons, most of them children, were seriously burned or otherwise injured when a 180 ft. illuminating gas tank, containing more than 4,000,G00 cubic feet of gas, exploded. The children w«iw singed by a spurt of flame and lay writiing in pain and screaming in the streets, j The cause of the explosion is not known.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18158, 2 August 1922, Page 7
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85EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18158, 2 August 1922, Page 7
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