TERRIBLE FIREWORKS EXPLOSION
[Per Mail at Auckland.] At Paterson, New Jersey, seventeen persons were killed and many others injured by an explosion of fireworks in a store on the ground floor of a crowded tenement building. The force of the explosion wounded people who lived half a block away. Within a minute every window of the four-storeyed wooden building where it took place was spouting fire, and the occupants of the flats in the structure hung from the window-sills. Twenty were rescued by the firemen, who attempted to keep the flames from consuming the ‘upper storeys, where many persons were imprisoned. but the lower walls were so weakened that they came crashing down, threatening the lives of the firemen, besides injuring several. The bodies taken out were mostly beyond recognition.
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Lake County Press, Issue 974, 8 August 1901, Page 2
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