Panic at Ice-cream Plant
GIRL WORKERS ’ ORDEAL
LONDON, July 25.
Three hundred gins gasped for breath as ammonia fumes swept through an ice-cream works at Blaekfriars.
A pipe in the freezing plant burst. Some of the girls fainted, others ran screaming to the windows, where some hung perilously over the street. Others ran out of the building and fainted on tho pavement. Three London hospitals treated 51 girls and 11 were detained in hospital. Firemen with oxygen-breathing apparatus went to the rescue of throe girls who jumped 20 feet from a window into a tarpaulin snatched from a lorry and held out by workmen. A fireman climbed a ladder and rescued a man in fumes as thick as a fog. The firemen wore gas masks.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 184, 6 August 1938, Page 9
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