DISTILLERY WRECKED.
At half-past five' on July 19 the Springer Distillery at Maisons Alforts, near Paris, was wrecked through the 'bursting of an overhead boiler. Three workmen employed on the'night shift were killed and about a dozen others injured. The force of the explosion was so great that nothing bub the outer walls of the distillery remain standing. Tbiree hundred men are thrown out of employment, and the damage is estimated at £60,000.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7806, 10 September 1903, Page 3
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