SEVENTEEN VICTIMS NOW IN HOSPITAL; DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £50,000.
(Received December 21, noon.) LONDON, December 20. BRITAIN has not known anything to equal the explosion. A district of a mile long and half a mile wide is deprived of every public service for some weeks. Traffic dislocation is worst in London's history. Business is at a standstill. Repairs will cost £50,000. Seventeen victims have been taken to hospital. A manhole cover weighing four hundredweight was thrown into the air and crashed through the roof of a three storey house and came to rest on a bed on the first floor. A torrent of fire roared fifty feet into the air from the crater in High Street and a fissure several hundred yards long spouted fire.—United Service.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19281221.2.3
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 1
Word Count
126SEVENTEEN VICTIMS NOW IN HOSPITAL; DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £50,000. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 1
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.