CARBIDE WORKS WRECKED
EXPLOSION TRAPS WORKERS FORTY BELIEVED TO BE ‘DEAD. DISTRICT NEAR- TOULOUSE. SHAKEN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. ‘ PtiriS, Dec. 18. yhe whole, district was shaken-when-a calcium carbide factory near Toulouse blew up. Over 100 workers were caught in the falling debris. Those who’escaped owed their lives to the unusual lightness of the structure, which was built of plaster blocks. » ' ‘ r Terrified men and women dragged themselves screaming from the wreckage. It is feared that 40 have been killed, although only three bodies have thus far been recoveted. Eleven- have been sent to hospital seriously burned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 9
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