FATAL EXPEOSION
SIX KILLED; SEVENTEEN HURT.
EXTENSIVE damage. to houses.
(United Preso Association— ’Jy Electric Telegraph—C opyrigbt. )
(Received this day at 1.45 p.m.)
LONDON, March 27
Six were killed, and seventeen injured, by an explosion at Gateshead, believed to be due to a steam excavate; on the roadway damaging .a gas main. Two houses collapsed, buiying two families, and the adjoining premises were wrecked.
Fire followed, and many.were injured, some being seriously burned. . The rescuers worked at a great risk owiim to the- falls of red hot bricks.
William Hood, a -relative of the 'victims wag himself injured when 'he climbed the ruins and .fixed a rope to
a tottering chimney stack which was felled safely. William Devonport, aged 67, was pinned down bv a beam, but successfully protected his baby grand-daughter for an hour until rescued. He staggered out carrying the child, and then collapsed and died.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1933, Page 6
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