FOUR BOYS IN DEATH TRAP
FATALLY SCALDED IN VAT FOUR boys in the little village of x Rhodes, near Manchester, lost their lives through being trapped and scalded in a bleaching vat at the Heaton Mills Bleaching Company’s works at Higher Blackley. They were James Turles (14), James Ward (14), James Parker (15), and Fred Hardman (14). . The vat, about 10ft high, hag ~' two manholes in the domed roof which are so small that only boys can crawl through them. The clothing to be bleached is lowered through the holes for the boys to arrange on the floor. The pile of clothes had reached about six feet from the 1 manhole , when boiling liquid and steam-burst. ' through the pipes on the vat bottom. The boys’ screams brought help and they were hauled through the.' manholes by men who reached down and seized their hands.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)
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