ACETYLENE GAS EXPLOSION
PRESS ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, October iO.. At nine p.m. on Monday the diningroom and two bedrooms above in the Fairlie Hotel, a wooden building, were wrecked by an explosion of acetylene gas. Gas had been escaping some where, as it was smelt a day or two , before. The leak was apparently between the ceiling and tho floor above the diningroom, as that structure was practically destroyed and the furniture damaged by falling through. All the windows were blown out. Tho explosion shook the whole building, and was heard all over the township. Fortunately it did not start a general fire, though a broken gas pipe was flaring till the meter was. turned off. . No one was near except Heckie, a visitor, who struck a match on entering tho room and was out about the face.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7928, 11 October 1911, Page 8
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