VIOLENT EXPLOSION
A CITY SENSATION.
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, June 11. \
Windows were shattered and fragments of iron and other metal were hurled several hundred feet in the air, when an explosion occurred of an ammonia cylinder, which became heated in a small fire that broke out, wrecking a dairy at Leichardt this mornipg. Firemen, employees and spectators had remarkable escapes from-.injury. One piece of iron crashed through-the roof of a house two hundred ..yards away, just missing the .owner) who was seated in the kitchen. . • The firemen, who were called to ex-
tinguish the .small fire had hardly begun'work when there was a terrific explosion. The flames then towered .to a height of two hundred feet, 'j The roof was lifted completely from the building. -
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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126VIOLENT EXPLOSION Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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