Fire Caused by Bursting of Oxygen Containers Berlin. July 24.
Many steel containers filled with oxygen exploded at noon to-day in, northern Berlin, setting fire to a block of workshops, a hundred em. ployees in which rushed out to safety.
The flames spread very rapidly. Further terrific explosions shook the district, and parts of the workshops! were blown into the air. Several workmen were injured by flying fragments. The inhabitants of bouring houses were thrown into a pani: and rushed into the afreets.
The fire is now threatening the huge gasworks and chemical Iaboratory, where there is a large stock of explosive material close at hand.
Late The fire is now under control and danger to the gasworks and chemical laboratory has been averted.
Four persons were seriously injured—Reute
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