FATAL EXPLOSION
GASOMETER IN ENGLAND TWO COUSINS KILLED WIVES AS WITNESSES LONDON, June 18. Exploding with a sheet of flame an 1 a vast plume of smoke, a gasometer at Dcwbury, Yorkshire, of .1,250,000 cubic fret capacity, blew off its cover ami I killed Alesms. bamuel and James Glodhill, cousins, whose bodies w p rc discovered among the debris. Alossrs. Herbert Hiuchcliffe and Jc-seph Uhodes were injured. Rhodes said that he and Samuel Gledhill were outside the meter house and James Gledhill was inside. The explosion blew Rhodes some distance, and Hiuchcliffe was stooping to help him when he was caught by the lull blast of the fire and a shower of slates and stones, but he saved his companion’s life. Doctors, nurses, ami a fire brigade were quickly on the spot. The firemen prevenfed the ignition of an adjacent gasometer containing 750,000 cubic iect of gas. The explosion cut off the supply of a portion of Dewsbury, and damaged surrounding works. The victims’ wives lived opposite the works and saw the explosion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 9
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