A TREMENDOUS CATASTROPHE.
EXPLODED GASOMETERS.
United Phess Association— Copyright. , BERLIN, Dec; 8. A partly-finished gasometer exploded at Freeport, Hamburg.; The flame 3 .exploded another gasometer, the largest „in the world, with a capacity of 200,000 cubic metres, and containing' 40,000 metres of gas. , A huge sheet of flame shot out, kil- : .ling everyond in its path. There are seventeen dead or missing. The gas works, costing 14,000,000 marks, are in ruins. • - [A mark is equal to ll|d in English money.] ; • ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2681, 10 December 1909, Page 5
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80A TREMENDOUS CATASTROPHE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2681, 10 December 1909, Page 5
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