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EXPLOSION 1:15 -1i-
A mysterious
SPA R.
M touched off an accumulation ofgas at the Bachman Water Purification plant in Dallas,
criticlly a 60 year old bacteriologicaltechnologist.
The explosion, contained in the
basement of the plant, blew out a wall, and caused
an estimated 2-thousand a damage..
The injured man, John Hucek, is in Parkland Hospital
with severe burns over most of his body. The gas
acme from a leaking jet in a special treatment room
in the plant's basement. Hucek had just close& the
leaking jet when the blast occurred. A witness to
the explosion, building mechanic Malcom Wright says
Aucek told him he smelle gas, and walked down a
stairway leading into the basement.
STAIRWAY
Wright says he followed Hucek to the stairway, and
was starting down when he heard a loud noise, andsaw a huge ball of flame fill the basement.
Wright
he ran dawn the stairs to fin lying on 4^Iw
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Explosion], item, June 4, 1963; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc969802/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.