FACTORY TRAGEDY
EXPLOSION OF CARTRIDGES
TEN GIRLS KILLED AND THIRTY
INJURED.
(BMITM) PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIOHT.I
LONDON, 6th ivtarcK.
An explosion at Port Tipton, Staffordshire, killed ten and injured thirty girls who .were removing the contents of 160 tons of cartridges. The explosion. occurred while the contents were being put into a separate receptacle. It blew oft the roof, and the. whole fifty girls in the room were blackened beyond recognition. All the clothing of many was torn off the bodies, and the hair burned off \ others.
When the cartridges were being taken to pieces the factory floor was strewn with gunpowder. When the explosion occurred the girls were trapped in a blazing inferno. Some of the injured rushed into.the streets naked and shrieking in agony. Passers-by covered them with sacks. The injured afterwards were taken in lorries to a hospital, where it was necessary to discharge convalescent patients to make room for them.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7
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152FACTORY TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7
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