CHLORINE GAS
Escape Affects 40 Persons
(10.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 27. More than 40 persons were gassed by chlorine in a Sydney suburb early this morning when the top was accidentally knocked off a cylinder containing liquid chlorine. The deadly gas spread quickly through homes and factories up to 200 yards away, and persons trapped in bed or at work staggered into the street in a vain effort to escape the choking fumes. Ambulance men and firemen protected by respirators treated those affected. Thirty persons had to be taken to hospital. Carried by the wind, the fumes affected one girl half a mile aw T ay. The gas was discernible a mile from the scene of the mishap, which occurred when a lorry loaded with chlorine in cylinders was being backed out of a garage.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22491, 28 January 1943, Page 4
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135CHLORINE GAS Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22491, 28 January 1943, Page 4
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