A DEAD HERO.
CHLORINE EXPLOSION. ‘GIVES LIFE FOR OTHERS. , —, >*!** (Received Thusday, 10.35 a.m.) PARIS, Wednesday. A dead hero of the St. Aiibaii explosion is M. Meline, an engineer. When the chlorine tank burst, lie was standing by, but was miraculously unhurt. He plunged into the gas-filled building, and ext ricatiiu man after man. When all except the twenty-three •who were killed were sate, Meline collapsed in the manager’s arms. He was hurried to the hospital, but shortly succumbed from asphyxiation.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1926, Page 5
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80A DEAD HERO. Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1926, Page 5
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