EXPLOSION AND STAMPEDE.
ENGLISH DYEWORKS WRECKED
(United Press Association —Copyright.) Received Dec. 3. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 2.
Gases at Bradfordbeck dammed up a stream of polluted chemical effluents, which exploded and wrecked the Armitage dyeworks, near Bradford. Eight hundred employees, chiefly girls, stampeded. A laborer was killed and twenty were injured. Fifteen acres were affected. The damage amounts to £30,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 5
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61EXPLOSION AND STAMPEDE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 5
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