KILLED BY EXPLOSION
FIREMEN AT HOTEL FIRE. TWENTY-SIX PEOPLE INJURED. PRECIOUS GEMS IN DEBRIS. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 1. An explosion at the Ritz Towers Hotel (a forty-one storey building) occurred in the sub-basement while firemen were fighting a blaze in the hotel paint shop. Five firemen were killed, and one injured seriously, being expected to die. Twenty-five other people,, including two women and two children, were injured less seriously. The explosion brought down the ceilings of the lower floors of the hotel and blew in the fronts of the shops, which lined the street level. Thousands of dollars worth of precious stones in a jewellery store were blown into the debris which filled a block of Fifty-seventh Street, between Park ancl, Lexington Avenues. . The fire was controlled.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 248, 2 August 1932, Page 5
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