EXPLOSION IN GERMANY
PEOPLE BURIED IN DEBRIS. FIVE TAKEN OUT DEAD. Reuter. BERLIN, Jan. 18. A shattering detonation due to an explosion of gas and petrol aroused the residents of the Moabit district of Berlin early this morning. A four-storeyed 'House collapsed like a pack of cards. The occupants were buried beneath Bft. of debris. The whole street was a scene of wild destruction. A motor-car, was hurled some distance away and smashed to pieces. All the windows in the neighbourhood were broken, and the window frames were left hanging on the street fronts. Fire brigades worked feverishly, and the firemen wore threatened every moment by further collapses of loosened masonry. The explosion was caused by an escape of gas which became ignited. Tho flames spread to a chandler's shop, where they set fire to a barrel of benzine in a ■house inhabited by 25 families. Forty persons have so far been extricated from the ruins. Of these, five were dead, and 20 others were seriously injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19230, 20 January 1926, Page 9
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