MELBOURNE FIRES

Grey River Argus, 14 March 1935, Page 5

MELBOURNE FIRES

Boys Incinerated (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received March 13 at 8.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, March 13. Two boys were burned, to death in a fire, following on an explosion in a Workshop of the Lygon Deadlight Company 's premises in East Brunsh-vick. A quantity of cinema film ignited and exploded. One boy was hurled twenty feet. The victims wero not identified. VICTIMS IDENTIFIED. (Received March 13 at 10 p.m A MELBOURNE, March 13. The boy fire victims have been identified as Chas. Leydon, aged 14 years, :uid Leslie Smith, aged 14. The boys werp cleaning pictures off old cinema films in order to recover the silver and resell the films. Their bodies were "charred almost beyond recognition. The cause of tho explosion is unknown.

A disastrous fire Mso occurred in the premises of the Western and Murray Co-operative Bacon and Meat Packing Company. Limited, in Flinders Lane. Two hundred bales of wool, worth £2.400, were destroyed. i n addition to a large quantity of dairy produce. The fire was checked before it reached twenty thousand hales of wool.