DEADLY CHLORINE GAS
PEOPLE TRAPPED IN BED IN SYDNEY SUBURB (Recd. 10.35 p.m.) Sydney, Jan, 27. More than 40 people were gassed by chlorine in a Sydney suburb early this morning when the top was accidentally knocked off a cylinder containing liquid chlorine. The deadly gas spread quickly through homes and factories up to 200 yards away, and people trapped in bed or at work staggered into the street in a vain effort to escape the choking fumes.
Ambulance men and firemen projected by respirators treated those affected. Thirty people had to be taken to hospital. Carried by the wind, the fumes affected one girl half a mile away. The gas was discernible I a mile from the scene of the mishap. J which occurred when a lorry, loaded 'with chlorine cylinders, was teing backed out garage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 22, 28 January 1943, Page 5
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