DISASTROUS EXPLOSION
many killed or injured
(United Press Association—By Electru Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at IP a.m.) LONDON, May 5
Six were killed,’ forty seriously injured ami sixty others injured by an explosion at a Liverpool factory, believed to have been caused by internal combustion, trapping on top floors, which were enveloped in a sheet of flame. One of the injured had his clothes completely blown off and skin blackened. Another was badly mimed and appeared on the roof with no clothes, waving his arms terrorstri.ken. He was about to jump over one hundred feet to the pavement when rescued. Others ware dug out of the ruins of the thrfee top floors.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1930, Page 5
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