Women Leap for Life.
FAKIS, Nov. 11. c A (fisastrous explosion occurred t Ilris evening l at Is.sy-les-Mouliiienux, just outside Paris, in the workshops of the Ripolin Company. Tlvo cause t of the explosion lias not yet been i ascertained, but it is known to have taken place in one of the laborntor- 1 ios just before live o'clock, and the c report was followed immediately by t an outbreak of fire. At that moment the work's were 1 occupied by a large number of women, and in their terror and excitement many of them threw themselves from the windows. The (Uvmen worked bravely to save those imprisoned in the burn- s ing building, *One of 'the men, who i. had rescued a workwoman, was car- I lying her towards the open air t whenTv second explosion Occurred, - enveloping the rescuer ana his bur- c den in a of red-hot wreckage, h The to retain his h hold on ami , s hc fell n into is woman perished in 1 y le r were ..
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7701, 2 January 1905, Page 2
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174Women Leap for Life. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7701, 2 January 1905, Page 2
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