LONDON MENACED
PROM underground. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright). LONDON. Jan. 14. “What is the matter with undergiT'nd London?” This is a question that is due to a scries of breakages in the watermains following the recent Tiolborn gas disaster, and there was also a big gas escape at Oxton yesterday, resulting in a woman being killed, and fifteen other persons being seriously gas poisoned, There were exciting scenes when someone smelling gas, gave an alarm. Scores of men and women and children hurried into the street in their night clothes. Some were sick and dazed, while others were rescued from their boils in an unconscious state. It is a miracle, that the death roll was not larger. A water main also burst in Edgeware Road, the water erupting at numerous points over a radius of half a mile. The water lifted the wood blocks and broke up the macadamised roads like brown paper.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1929, Page 3
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155LONDON MENACED Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1929, Page 3
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