OIL DISASTER
PIPE LINE BURSTS. FORTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright). (Received this day at 9.25. a.m.l DELHI, Oct. 12. Forty-seven were burnt to death including eighteen women, and thirty were hurt in a blaze following the bursting of the Burmah Oil Coy’s oil pipe line at Paungde, one hundred and thirty miles from Rangoon. Crowds of villagers rushed to the spot with naked lights to collect oil. ■, which ignited and surrounded them in a mass of flames.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1928, Page 5
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80OIL DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1928, Page 5
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