"I'm Burning Alive!” —Terrible Cry From Beneath Blazing Phosphorous
By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received 10.50 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. A HORRIBLE accident occurred at Hockliffe, when a motorr\ lorry skidded through a hedge down a bank, and the petrol tank exploded, setting fire to a load of six tons of phosphorous powder, contained in shell cases. The driver whose name was Rivett, was pinned down lie screamed, “I’m burning alive!” Rescuers were striving their hardest to rescue him when w ?! exploded > injuring four, including a man named Wagstarte, who caught fire and was partly blinded. Rivett suffered an agonising death.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 1
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101"I'm Burning Alive!”—Terrible Cry From Beneath Blazing Phosphorous Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 1
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