SEWER GAS EXPLODES
INQUISITIVE CHILDREN FOUR GO TO HOSPITAL ’ SYDNEY, July 25. Four children had a remarkable escape from death while playing in a street at Chippendale, when a little boy dropped a lighted match down a sewerage manhole, “Just to see what would happen.” There was a tremendous explosion, and the four children were hurled into the air and badly injured. Windows in buildings for hundreds of 'feet Ground were shattered ,and a horse and sulky standing nearby were almost lifted into the air by the force of the iexplosion. The anmal was enveloped 'in a sheet of flame, its tail, mane, and hair being practically all burnt off. i The children were sent to hospital. ’One, Vincent Dory, aged five, is in a serious condition.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19368, 27 July 1925, Page 9
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