VIOLENT EXPLOSION
AT STEEL WORKS NEAR GLASGOW SHOWERS OF RED-HOT ORE. MANY REMARKABLE ESCAPES. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 17. A violent explosion wrecked the pumphouse of the William Beard Com pany's steel works near Glasgow and set fire to a shop adjoining. Workers on night shift were showered with lumps of red-hot ore and other debris. Some sheltered in an air raid refuge. The windows of every building in the neighbourhood were shattered. There were many miraculous escapes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 5
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84VIOLENT EXPLOSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 5
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