SUDDEN BLAZE
FILM HOUSES ON FIRE
A LONDON SENSATION
(UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIdHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 24th October, noon.) | LONDON, 23rd October. A sensational fire in the cinema quarter of London brought forty fire engines into action. An explosion in the premises of the Ideal Film Company and the Topical Film Company 'in Wardour street blew out the windows, and the flames leaped across the road and set fire to a motor-car standing outside the premises of Pathe Freres, Ltd., opposite. Meanwhile, masses of films were ablaze, and the big building was aflame in ,a few minutes, %vith flames shooting high above the roof. The escape of girl employees was cut off, and they rushed to the broken windows. The horror-stricken people, seeing the screaming women leaning from the second-floor windows, shouted to them to jump to the street. The girls did so, but one was caught by.the heels in jumping through the window, fell on her head, and was picked up unconscious ; otherwise no one was seriously hurt, but seven are, in hospital with bad burns. ■'
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 100, 24 October 1924, Page 7
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178SUDDEN BLAZE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 100, 24 October 1924, Page 7
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