FEARFUL EXPLOSION
SYDNEY DAIRY WRECKED COMPLETELY METAL HURLED AFAR SYDNEY, Tuesday. A cylinder of ammonia exploded after it had become heated in a small fire -which had broken out in a dairy at Leichhardt this morning. The building was wrecked, the windows shattered, and fragments of iron and other metal hurled several hundred feet into the air. The firemen, employees and spectators had remarkable escapes from injury. One piece of iron crashed through the roof of a house 200yds away, just missing the owner, who was seated in the kitchen. The firemen who had been called to extinguish the fire had hardly begun their work when the terrific explosion occurred. The flames towered to a height of 200 ft. and the roof was completely lifted from the building.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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128FEARFUL EXPLOSION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 9
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