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LIVERPOOL FACTORY BLAZE APPALLING ACCOMPANIMENTS. ' ROOF BLOWN ACROSS STREET. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, May C. Five employees are dead as a consequence of the Liverpool factory fire, in which 100 others were injured, 40 being in a serious condition. Two explosions occurred within a few seconds, accompanied by thunderous crashes, flames of blinding yellow and smoko.
The explosion threw down the majority of the workers, including women, and blew the roof across the street.
The fumes choked and blinded the injured as they struggled from the building. . The approaches to the factory were speedily thronged with weeping women and children, rushing up to get news of relatives, necessitating mounted police control of the crowd.
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Northern Advocate, 7 May 1930, Page 5
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