BIG EXPLOSION.
FIVE KILLED AND MANY INJURED. Fortune in Jewels in Street* LOWER FLOORS OF GIANT HOTEL WRECKED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 2, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 1. An explosion shook the forty-two-storey Ritz Towers Hotel, Park to-day, killing five and injuring at least twenty-five others, blowing out the fronts of stores and scattering a fortune in jewels in the street. The explosion occurred in the subbasement while firemen were fighting a blaze in the hotel paint shop. Five firemen were killed and one was injured seriously and is expected to die. Twenty-five other people, including two women and two children, were injured less seriously. The explosion brought down the ceilings in the lower floors of the hotel and blew in the fronts of the shops which lined the street level. Thousands of dollars’ worth of precious stones in a jewellery store were blown into the debris-filled block of Fifty-seventh Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues. The fire was controlled.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 521, 2 August 1932, Page 1
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164BIG EXPLOSION. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 521, 2 August 1932, Page 1
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