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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1927, Page 4

CHEMICALS EXPLODE. NICE. December 15. Twenty lives were lost and 00 people were seriously injured in an explosion to-day at the chemical products factory at Saint Alihan, near Digue, about SO miles north of Toulon. A reservoir containing 20 toils of chlorine solution suddenly exploded, wrecking the factory. M. Moline, the chief engineer, and 10 workmen were killed on the spot, and .’lO other men were so seriously injured that the lives | of several of them were despaired of. i Rescue parties are feverishly working with gas masks removing the debris beneath which it is feared other bodies may be found. A dense pall of yellow poison-gas bangs over the scene of the explosion. The Saint Auhan chemical works, which employed nearly 1.000 men. was engaged chiefly in the extraction of chlorine gas and soda from sea salt. It was just as the workmen had left for their midday meal that the chlorine reservoir exploded. Most of the men escaped to an area free from gas. Twenty of them, however. who were in a building adjoining the chlorine reservoir were rapidly suffocated. The factory’s first-aid detachment, wearing gas masks, managed to rescue 00 who were lying unconscious in the sheds.

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