SIX KILLED
EXPLOSION IN ENGLAND
HEROISM DISPLAYED
(Received March 28, 2 p.m.)
;• LONDON, March 27. Six were killed and seventeen injured in an explosion at Gateshead, believed to have been due to the operations of a steam excavator in the roadway damaging a gas main. Two houses collapsed, burying two families, and adjoining premises were wrecked. In the fire which followed many wero injured and seriously burned. Rescuers worked at great risk owing to the falls of red-hot bricks.
William Hood, a relative of the victims, and himself injured, climbed the ruins and fixed a rope to the tottering chimney stack, which was felled safely. William Dovenport, aged sixty-seven, pinned by beams, successfully protected his baby grand-daughter for an hour, until they were rescued. He staggered out, carrying the- child, and collapsed and, died.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
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134SIX KILLED Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
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