Complex sentence: For almost 10 Years the factory operated successfully exporting canned crawfish overseas and providing work for the local inhabitants on 31 July 1914 a leak in the acetylene gas supply caused an explosion which blew up the canning factory killing 7 people including the owner Mr. Lucien Plessis.
Split into simpler sentences: For almost 10 Years the factory operated successfully exporting canned crawfish overseas and providing work for the local inhabitants. On 31 July 1914 a leak in the acetylene gas supply caused an explosion which blew up the canning factory killing 7 people including the owner Mr. Lucien Plessis.