EXPLOSION IN HOTEL
NEW YORK TRAGEDY FIVE FIREMEN KILLED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 1. (Received August 2, at 10 a.ra.) An explosion at the Ritz Towers Hotel (a forty-one story building) occurred in the sub-basement while lire men were fighting a blaze in the hotel paint shop. Five firemen were killed and one was seriously injured and is not expected to live. 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 wore blown into tho debris, which filled a block of Fiftyseventh street between Park and Lexington avenues. Tho fire was eventually got under control.
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Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 9
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139EXPLOSION IN HOTEL Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 9
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