FATAL FIRE IN DUBLIN
SQUIB FALLS INTO AN OILTANK SEVERAL LIVES LOST BY TILMBAPH.—PUBBS ASSOCIATION. —OOPYBIGHT. London, January 8While children were playing with fireworks in tho street at Summerhill, Dublin, on Sunday night, a lighted squib entered a shop basement, falling into an oil tank, which exploded. Sheets of flame shot, up to tho ceiling, and streams of burning oil flooded the basement. Within a couple of minutes the whole building was, burning, cutting off four families above. A crowd gathered and soldiers held out coats and a mattress. Ono mother threw out her children. All wore safely caught. Those in the upper stones wero too high to jump. The Fire Brigade rescued some. Mrs. Fennell and two infants and Mrs. Brophy and a young daughter perished. Mr. Brophy is missing and is believed to have been killed. The bodies were unrecog-nisable.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 88, 10 January 1923, Page 5
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