OIL EXPLOSIONS
10 MEN KILLED MEN IN TOWER OF FLAME NEW YORK. Pell. 16. lon men are dead and 64 injured as tiie result t»f three explosions yesterday a I (he Linden refinery o', the Standard rul Co., at New Jersey. Many of those nr hospital are hlimlrd, and others are run. expected to recover from torrihlo hums. The. accident. occurred when the day and night- .shifts were, changing. A pipe mill lining high-pressure naphtha gas tiroke 12it. away from the company s alcohol plant, 'a throe-storey .structure used for ri scan It. anil 'lie Himes caught fire Horn the torches of liwU-rs working on an adjoining building. The explosions then followed. 1 hrne men working in the alcohol department were Inuni. heyend recognition. while others rushed oui sorearniiiji in' agony, tiieir clothes blazing. Due of the doe-tor.-, altending the injured said to-day : “lie* seveiili of tlmir hiii'ii, i- unbelievable Blindness. 1 fear, awaits most ~1 those who survive.
A workn an who was caught- by the flames said : “There was a sudden wall of blue lire, aho'iv 5011. high and ISOtt-. long.’" A wire fence surrounds (he alcohol building, and tlie blinded men, unable lo find the gate, grew panic-stricken in their ellorts to escape. I hey heat their hands on tile fence, screaming for help.
Four iuquiiies arc being held into the cause of the explosions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17236, 16 April 1930, Page 16
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