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EXPLOSION - 1
FIREMEN
Firemen hedd for the fourth floor of the Texoma Building,
at 512 South Akard in Dallas, where an explosion in the
employee's cafeteria has sent one man to a hospital.
It began to get a little warm as the morning wore on,
so Bill Neaves, a maintenance man in the building,
reached through a little access door to turn on theair conditioning.
MEN TALKING
When he did, there was a loud explos-
ion, and Neaves fell backward with burns over his face
and right forearm.
The cafeteria's operator, Kelly Rhine, in the center,
said it sounded like a couple of sticks of dynamite. He
says
Kayd he was looking straight at Neaves when he was
pitched backward about 10-feet by the blast. Mainten-
ance Jeff Foreman diagnoses that the air condit-
ioning compressor was shorted, and the electrical
terminal box exploded when the switch was thrown. 4 _
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Explosion], script, April 9, 1965; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976803/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.