TERRIBLE DISASTER.
FI REV. GRE S’ FACTORY EXPLOSION. LONDON. February 19. A fire broken out in a wooden shod at Gilbert's Fireworks at Crayford, in which 2G girls were emnloyr.d in dismantling Ye rev lights. Simultaneously a terrific explosion oc.-iiii"L Idling 12 girls, all under 20 years of ago. A lor email was also killed and two girls were terribly injured, hem;' tun c 1 from head to foot. -The remainder escaped slightly injured although the force of the explosion tore their clothes off. The shed burned for three hours, and the remainder of the victims were unrecognisable. A I ore woman says that it all happened in a flash, and without warning. Through the smoke she saw the twisted hodies'of the dead girls. It was a terrible sight.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1924, Page 3
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129TERRIBLE DISASTER. Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1924, Page 3
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