VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS
ROOF BLOWN FROM FACTORY Gas cylinders blew up liko giant rockets when a series of explosions partly wrecked tho works of the British Oxygen Company at Crewe last month. A hundred yards of asbestos roofing was stripped off. Tho windows of a row of houses overlooking tho works were smashed and tho furniture scattered in tho street. There wore 400 cylinders on chargo in tho works, and police ordered all families to leave their homes. Four other explosions occurred, and splintered cylinders were hurled into tho air several hundred feet. Another cylinder, over four feet long, dropped within a fow feet of a house and embedded itself in tho front garden. At the time of tho explosions there were three employees in tho works. John Wharton, of Shavington, who was in tho filling room, was removed to hospital suffering from severe injuries and burns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22172, 27 July 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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