TORONTO OIL TANKS EXPLODE.
. TOP OF OHEAT CONTAINER HU I!LED 100 FEET. ; -.'W TORONTO, March 11.—At least mx 1 jmen were injured, three being badly burned, whoa two oil tanks in the plant of' the McCall Oil Company, Lambton ’ Mills, .u'iiuburh of Toronto, exploded this afternoon. • The tanks contained about 10,000 gal- : lons of gasoline and the force of the ex . plosion hurled the upper half of one of fiA the tanks through the.air for a distance ; of ICO yards, tearing down telegraph and telephone wires in its flight, .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 2
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89TORONTO OIL TANKS EXPLODE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 2
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