PANIC IN SYDNEY
EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS IN STORE WOMEN SHOPPERS ALARMED SYDNEY, May 19. An explosion among fireworks on the counter of G. J. Coles’s main store in Pitt street during the height of shopping today caused a panic among the crowds in the building. Fire followed the explosion and filled the place with smoke and fumes. Women rushed from the exits to PittStreet and King Street in a. condition of hysteria, dropping their goods and personal effects behind them. . Some girl employees were overcome by the smoke and fumes and were conveyed in ambulances to hospital. Others were rescued from the upper floors by ladders.
The blaze was subdued before much damage was done either to the contents or the building.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 7
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