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WHISKY DISTILLERY BLOWN UP. RIVERS OF BURNING SPIRIT. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, December 19. Great crowds in Glasgow in the early morning watch 12,000 casks of flaming whisky flow into the North Canal, from a distillery company's sevenstoried premises. The burning spirit threatened to consume the buildings and boats on the canal. The firemen vainly endeavored to dam the flood and many lines of hose failed to extinguish the streams. The firemen a3 & last resource placed the engines on can.il bank and pumped WRter from the bottom upon the surface. It was slow work, but proved successful. The premises were destroyed by an explosion which threw the walls outward The loss is £150,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1915, Page 8
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116EH, MONI Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1915, Page 8
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