FIRE IN LONDON
RUM STORES BURNED
OVER 3,000,000 GALLONS LOST
ENORMOUS DAMAGE
(United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) (6.30 p.m.) London, April 22. The biggest and most spectacular fire in London for many years occurred last night in the rum quay of the West India Docks. A vast warehouse in which millions of gallons of rum were stored in kegs and vats caught fire St. Paul’s was silhouetted against the glow. The whole of London was floodlit and enormous crowds watched the scene. The flames rose 80 feet high, and the glow was observed thirty miles distant.
Three and a-half million gallons of rum stored in bonded warehouses blazed fiercely for five hours, despite the efforts of four hundred firemen.
Cascades of blazing liquor from the bursting barrels poured on to the dock and burned furiously on the surface of the water. The fumes were so overpowering that the firemen had to work in relays, finally using oxygen-breath-ing masks. The damage is estimated at £4,000,000.
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Southland Times, Issue 21998, 24 April 1933, Page 7
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164FIRE IN LONDON Southland Times, Issue 21998, 24 April 1933, Page 7
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