AN EXPLOSION OF GAS.
—o Foxton, June 20. A gas explosion occurred in portion of a brick building about to be occupied -by Walls, a baker. Yesterday afternoon the workmen engaged on the building smelt gas escaping, and a plumber applied a match to a joint, and immediately an explosion occurred, shattering a huge plateglass window in the front of the shop, and a jfahlig&t in the kitchen, and tearing portions of the asbestos ceiling from fivb Room's. No oiie was seriously injured. A cracked pipe was the cause of the leakage. The damage done amotihted to £3O or £4O. ;■>. h " 11 1 j
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 20 June 1913, Page 6
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104AN EXPLOSION OF GAS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 20 June 1913, Page 6
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