FLOOD OF FIRE.
EXPLOSION CAUSED BY LIGHTNING.
MILLION GALLONS ON LIGHTED ABSINTHE.
A BLAZING MASS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Paris, Aug. 14. Lightning caused an explosion of vats containing half-a-milliou gallons of absinthe at Pernod’s distillery, Poutarlier river, Department of Doubs. The blazing mass ran on to the river, which was transformed to a flood of tire. The loss is estimated at .£320,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 187, 15 August 1901, Page 2
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