FEARFUL EXPLOSION
FACTORY WORKERS TRAPPED, OYER HUNDRED CASUALTIES. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 5. Six people were killed, 40 seriously injured and 60 others injured by an explosion at a Liverpool factory, believed to have been caused by internal combustion, trapping the employees on the top floors, which, were enveloped in a sheet of flames. One of these injured had his clothes completely blown off and his skin blackened. Another, badly burned, appeared on the roof with no clothes, waving lus arms, terror-stricken. He was about to jump over 100 feet to the pavement, when he was rescued. Others were dug out of the ruins of the three top floors.
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Northern Advocate, 6 May 1930, Page 5
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