EIGHTEEN DEAD
DUE TO BARLEY FERMENTATION
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.)
WARSAW, November 13
The fermentation of barley stored in a granary attached, to a brewery, caused the wall to collapse, burying a neighbouring tenement in which thirtyone persons were sleeping. ..
Eighteen . were ki!led i mostly being suffocated under tons of grain. All of the others were injured. The director of the brewery was arrested on the ground that the quantity of grain stored violated building ordinance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1932, Page 5
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78EIGHTEEN DEAD Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1932, Page 5
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