TRAGIC FIRE
six factory workers lost
(.United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
LONDON, Feb. 25,
Two thousand people knelt in prayer
and prayed while flames devoured a. hat factory at Luton, in which four girls and two men were trapped and burnt to death. The girls were seen, momentarily at a high window, ter-ror-stricken, and embracing each other., Then they, fell back into a raging, furnace. Rescue was impossible, as the flames burnt the fire escapes. More than one hundred work girls had a narrow escape,, after getting a warning. .
Twenty were B©ut to the hospital suffering from burns. A feature of the fire was its rapidity. Only the walls were- left, within half an hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1930, Page 4
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116TRAGIC FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1930, Page 4
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