POWER PLANT WRECKED
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. SOUTH AFRICAN ACCIDENT. Router. CAPETOWN, Dec. S. The Victoria TFalls power station, situated at Vereeniging, 30 miles from Johannesburg, the largest power station in South Africa, was wrecked by an explosion early this morning. Huge masses of machinery, some weighing over a ton, were hurled hundreds of yards, cutting down trees in their flight. Some large masses of iron fell across the Vaal River, upon which the station stood. It supplied one-fifth of (he total electric power required to work the Rand mines, also the light for a number of townships. All these services are at a standstill. No one was seriously hurt. The cost of replacing the station will be about £50,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19197, 10 December 1925, Page 11
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