TRAPPED BY FLAMES
WORKERS IN HAT FACTORY. SIX BURNED TO DEATH. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 26. (Received Feb; 26, at 9 p.m.) Two thousand people knelt down and prayed while flames devoured a hat factory at Luton in which four girls and two men were trapped and burned to death. The girls were seen for a moment at a high window, terror-stricken and embracing one another. Then they fell back into the raging fumn.ee. Rescue was impossible, as the flames burnt the fire escapes.
More than 100 workgirls had a most narrow escape, but 20 were sent to hospital suffering from burns. A feature of the fire was its rapidity, only the walls being loft after half an hour
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 11
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