AN EXPLOSION
IN CALCIUM CARBIDE FACTORY. LOSS OF LIFE. United Press Association.— Vj Electro Telegraph.—Copyright. ] $ (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) PARIiS, December 18. The whole district \va s shaken when a calcium carbide factory near -Toulouse blew up. Over a hundred workers were caught in falling debris, and those who escaped owed their lives to the unusual lightness ol the structure, which was built of plaster blocks. Terrified men and women dragged themselves..streaming troin the wreck-
lt is feared that 10 persons have been killed although only three bodies have thus far been recovered. Eleven have been sent to the hospital seriously burnt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1930, Page 6
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104AN EXPLOSION Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1930, Page 6
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