BIG DOCKSIDE FIRE
SACK FACTORY IN FLAMES TWO FIREMEN KILLED LONDON, July 7. While firemen were fighting a big deckside fire at Poplar a wall crashed, killing two firemen and injuring a third. Their comrades dashed into the debris and recovered the bodies. The fire involved a three-storey sack factory and 200 firemen, 60 engines, motor pumps, ladders and other appli ances were requisitioned. Fire floats played from the Thames. The roof collapsed with a noise like thunder.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 158, 9 July 1935, Page 7
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