VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS
ROOF BLOWN FROM FACTORY. Gas cylinders blew up like giant rockets when a series of explosion! partly wrecked the works of the Britisn Oxygen Company at Crowe last month. A hundred yards of asbestos roofing was stripjied off. The windows ot a row of houses overlooking the works were smashed and the furniture scattered in the street. There were 400 cylinders on charge in the works, and police oid'ied all families to leave their homes. Four other explosions occurred, and splintered cylinders were hurled into the air several hundred feet. Another cylinder, over four feet long, drojiped within a few feet of a house and embedded itself in the front garden. At the time of the explosions there were three employees in the works. John Wharton, of Shavington, who was I ir the filling room, was removed to hospital suffering from severe injuries ’ burns.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 8
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