ANOTHER EXPLOSION
GAS BECOMES IGNITED MISHAP IN BERLIN (Times Cables.) LONDON, Dec. 24. The Times Berlin correspondent states that an explosion resembling the London upheaval occurred at a local railway station, when an oil gas pipe leading underneath the rails and from which the gas receptacles in passenger eoaches are filled, became leaky. The gas percolated upwards and was set afire by some means. A series of violent explosions followed, the flames spreading several hundreds of square yards and stopping traffic on 25 sets of lines. The firemen were several hours controlling the outbreak.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 7
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94ANOTHER EXPLOSION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 7
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