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LOUISVILLE FIRE Tbree Buildings Desiroyed in Flood Area AT LEAST SEVEN DEAD
(By Teleexash-
(Eeceived 8, 8.45 a.m.) . LOUISVILLE, Feb. 7. Two gas eKplosions and a fire due to the effects of the flood destroyed two three-storey buildings in the heart of the business section. Seven bodies were reanoved after the explosion and three others are helieved to have been buried among the dehris. The known injured numher 12. The losa is estimated at 50,000 dollars. Eescuers are unable to search tRe i'uins until the gas, which had aecuruu lated in the building after the flood. from a damaged main has cleared away. The upper floor comprised small apartments in which there were many flood refugees and several were injured in jumping from the second floor windows before the walls crumbled. Two eimilar explosions in 24 hours razed a business buildxng and a factory. No one was killed, but the ross is estimated at 100,000 dollars. " ~
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 20, 8 February 1937, Page 7
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