A LIVERPOOL DISASTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 11

A LIVERPOOL DISASTER

EXPLOSION IN A FACTORY. ' SIX PEOPLE KILLED. (United 'Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 6. Six people were killed, 40 seriously injured, and 60 others slightly injured by an explosion at a Liverpool factory, believed to have been caused by internal combustion. The lire trapped the employees on the top floors, which were enveloped in a sheet of flame. One of the injured man had his clothes completely blown off and the skin blackened. Another was badly burned, and appeared on the roof with no clothes, waving his arms, terror-stricken, ,and was about to jump over 100 feet to the pavement when he was rescued. Others were dug out the ruins of the. three top floors. FUMES CHOKE THE INJURED. LONDON, May 6, (Received May 6, at 8 p.m.) ' Two explosions occurred .within a few seconds, being accompanied by thunder--ous clashes, flames -of blinding yellow, and smoke. The explosions threw down a majority of the- workers, including women, and blew the.iuof 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 crowdC