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Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) HAZARDOUS RESCUE WORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. The death roll in the Pittsburg gasometer explosion is now twenty-eight, with from three hundred to live hundred injured. The damages are estimated at live million dollars. With nightfall, temporary morgues were set up near the scene, and army tractors were called in to help raze the walls. Rescue work is hazardous, because of tho possibility . igniting the gaseous ruins. -in eye-witness, who was working a quarter of a mile irom the scene, said he heard the explosion, and tli.m saw a great hall of fire a hundred feet in diameter, rise from the hank into the air. .Motorists across the Ohimo River, riding in glass-enclosed cars, felt tho heat of the fireball through the car doors. Another eyewitness said: “We couldn’t see a whole man anywhere.” A man in an office, twenty-five storeys high, across the street, said lie felt the building sway as if in an earthquake. A broken water main flooded the streets, making the area inaccessible. Afore than four hundred injured were treated in hospitals. Legislation is proposed to prohibit gas tanks being erected within th n city limits.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1927, Page 2
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