HOTEL EXPLOSION
FIVE MEfT KILLED JEWELLERY HURLED INTO STREET. i (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 1. An explosion shook the forty-0110 I storey Ritz Towers hotel in Park Avenue to-day, hiding one, and seriously ■ injuring at least a dozen men, and blowing out the front stores, scattering a fortune of jewels in the, street. , | I The explosion at the Ritz Towers' hotel occurred in a sub-basement while | firemen were fighting a blaze Tn u ’the ! hotel paint shop. .Five firemeh 7 Vvere killed, while one, who was injured ser--1 ious.y, is expected to die. Twenty-five ’ other people, including two women and two children, were injured less seriously. The explosion brought down the ceiling in the lower floors of the hotel, and blew in the fronts of shops which . lined the street level. Thousands of dollars worth of previous stones in a jewiellery store were blown into the debfig which filled the block of FiftySeventh Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, The fife was controlled,
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1932, Page 5
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