EXPLOSION IN FRANCE
CALCIUM CARBIDE FACTORY,
HEAVY TOLL OF LIVES
(United Press Association.)
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
PARIS, December 18. '1 lie whole district was shaken when a calcium carbide factory near Toulouse blew up. Over 100 workers were caught in the falling debris. Those who escaped owed their lives to the unusual lightness of the structure, which was built of plaster blocks. Terrified men and women dragged themselves, screaming, from the wreckage. It is feared that forty people have been killed, although only three bodies have so far been recovered. Eleven people have been sent to hospital seriously burned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21214, 20 December 1930, Page 13
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