Three or four foreigners, who were to be present at the test run, had the great good fortune to be saved through their attention being occupied with some matter at the last moment. "I was standing in my office, intending to go over to the turbine house a few seconds before the explosion," said one of them. Just as I was about to cross the yard, a lat came over to speak Peete none mothing and thus 0 me about somethin
Similarly fortunate wag another member of the staff. He owes his life to the fact that something had gone wrong with his motor-bicycle on his way to work in the morning. As the noon hour was approaching, he slipped out to fix it, without notifying anyone of his absence, his sphere of labour would have brought him into the midst of the flying debris and two-ton missiles, which filled the air for the moment. While he was away, he ad scarcely got to his machine before the explosion came with all its disaster and he was far from it.
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