EXPLOSION OF GASOMETERS.
HUGE SHEET OF FLAME.
Seventeen Killed.
Destruction of Casworks.
Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright Received December 9, 8.5 a.m. BKRLIN, December 8. .V partly-finished gasometer exploded at Freeport, Hamburg. The flames exploded another gasometer, the largest in the world, with a capacity of 200,000 metres, containing 40,000 meties of gas. A huge sheet of flame shot out, killing everyone in itd path. There are 17 dead and mining. The gasworks, costing 140,000,00(1 marks, are in ruias.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12945, 9 December 1909, Page 5
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78EXPLOSION OF GASOMETERS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12945, 9 December 1909, Page 5
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