FORTY KILLED
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WORKERS CAUGHT IN DEBRIS WHOLE DISTRICT SHAKEN (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Paris, December 18. The whole district was shaken when a calcium carbide factory near Toulouse blew up and over 100 workers were caught in the falling debris. Those who escaped owed their lives to the lightness of the structure, which was built of plaster blocks. Terrified men and women dragged themselves screaming from the wreckage, and it is feared that 40 have been killed, although only three bodies have thus far been recovered. Eleven have been sent to hospital severely burnt.
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Southland Times, Issue 21274, 20 December 1930, Page 7
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97FORTY KILLED Southland Times, Issue 21274, 20 December 1930, Page 7
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