PETROL EXPLOSION
FOUR WOMEN INCINERATED HUSBANDS REPAIRING PIPE (Received January 17, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 1G A telegram from Pryor, Oklahoma, states that a petrol explosion at a break in a pipe line caused four women to lie burned to death. 'Hie women were in a motor-car and were watching their husbands make repairs in the line. Two of the workmen also were incinerated and six others were injured. One of the men, in describing the explosion said: "It all happened like a Hash of lightning. One minute the, women in the motor-car were talking and the next they were incinerated and the vehicle was molten. There was no outcry and death must havo been instantaneous.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22629, 18 January 1937, Page 9
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