SERIOUS GAS EXPLOSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 174, 6 August 1901, Page 3

SERIOUS GAS EXPLOSION.

INMATB3 01 A HOUSE BADLY BURNED. PKB PBBSS ASSOCIATION, Auckland, August 5. A periods explosion of coal gas occurred in a house tenanted by Mr. acd lira. Keane and family. 'Whrn about to retire Mrs. Keaae wa».mes by her sitte r , Mrs. Sylvia, who •xcLiinied, " What a t<srrib!e smell of gas; there must be a Irak in tha gas g=B pipes." Mi 8. Keire entered a room to see if the burEers uere turned off, acil fcad scarcely ruised the candle above her bead when an explosion eccun el which hurled her »o the floor Bi.«! s t fira to her hair and clothing. M'*. Sylva's clothing was also ig; ited, a ii ■h- whole room set in a blaz-. Mr. K c c ne wai going out of the back do •: wte.l he htar<l the report, and turniug back tvas u efc by the full fete? of the dames. H« rushed into the ■itting rosm and tore down the burning CJit iui auii blind-, and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. Toe t«o ladi<s were severely burned aboil 1 ; the hands aid face, and Mr. Keane was a'sj burned. The sufftrers are now on a fair way to recovery. The explosion wr-s so violent that seventeen panes of glass were blown out, and one half of a French door opening from the fitting room on to the ver.uid li was c tnpl' ttily torn from its hiLg"p.