THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1988.
LONDON GIRLS BURNED AND "GASSED"
400 Rush From Fumes In Works
One Jumps From Top Floor Caught In Tarpaulin
Scores of girls, some burned by, girls. Passers-by rushed to their ammonia and others overcome by assistance, Ambulance, police and fumes, staggered out of a factory the fire brigade were telephoned in Stamford-street, Southwark, re-for.. cently, calling for help.
One
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One girl, who had climbed out on am-lo a top floor window-sill, was seen Forty-five were taken in bulances, taxi-cabs and lorries to to sway by S., H. Stagg, a lorry He ripped the tarpaulin hospitals:
Miss driver. three Florence Murphy, of Condy-road, ! cover off his lorry and, with several Custom House was in a serious men helping him, held it under- neath the girl. She fell into it- condition.
unhurt!
Passers-by heard the shouting
Just before this two other girls and saw the windows of the Eldo- rado Ice Cream factory flung open. stood at a lower window. "Don't In a second or two many girls,jump," the watchers cried. They gasping for breath, were leaning did jump, but some men broke their fall and except for shock, the girls out.
were unhurt.
An ammonia pipe, used in the freezing process, had burst across the ceiling of a room where 30 girls worked drenching some with the acid and nearly suffocating the others.
Girls collapsed. across the sills of the open windows. Others, al- though overcome thesmelves, were seen clasping the unconscious ones and so saving them from falling to the pavement below.
The rest of the girls in the fac- tory-nearly 400 of them were rushing for the stairs and they nearly jammed the exit. Scores of them collapsed on the pavement, choking and gasping. Others faint- ed from shock.
to
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GIRLS WHO JUMPED
Altogether 63 were attended to by the police and ambulance men in addition to the 46 who were sent to hospital.
UNCONSCIOUS DOG It was an extraordinary scene. Several girls who had been drench-
with liquid ammonia ed screaming with pain. Some of their clothing had to be pulled from them.
were
Two of them were taken to hos- pital in taxicabs.
Many of the girls, blinded by fumes, were led into nearby shops, offices and warehouses where they were attended to until ambulance took them to hospital.
Even a dog that ran barking to the scene rolled over unconscious. A policeman picked it up and took
Very soon the pavement seemed
be covered with unconscious lit away.
COUNTESS FOUND DEAD IN HER
CABIN IN LINER
The 35-year old Mary Countess of Hardwicke, widow of the eighth Earl, has been killed while travel- ling to England from South Africa in the Union Castle liner Windsor, Castle.
The tragedy occurred 17 days after her remarriage by special Mr. licence at Buluwayo to W. E. L. Jennings, district officer of Dedża, Nyasaland. ·
On the morning of the day be- 'fore the liner reached Teneriffe, a stewardess went to the Countess's cabin to call her. She found her lying dead on the floor with her neck broken.
It is assumed that she slipped, fell, and struck her chin on the edge of her bunk.
Ship's officialngare satisfied that
of accidents. The it was a case body was buried at sea.
was
The liner arrived at Southamp- ton recently.
The Countess
travelling alone. She was returning to her home in Christchurch-road, Ring- wood (Hampshire).
Before her marriage to the eighth Lord Hardwicke the Countess was Mary Radley, daughter of Edward Robert Twist, of Liverpool. She, to the Earl in 1980 was married and was his second wife, He was 60 years old then, and he died in 1986.:
EARL'S ADVENTURES During an adventurous life, the Earl worked as a gold miner in Montana and as a ganger in Bouth Africa. He was one of the first men to qualify as an air pilot.
He was also an accomplished actor. He had given performances before Queen Victoria.
in
The Countess had lived for the past ten months in a flat about a dyers......... and cleaners ʼn shop Christchurch-rdad, Ringwood,
She was formerly well-known in the Bournemouth district as the proprietor, in partnership with the late Miss Williams, of a cattery at Longham on the outskirts of the town. They used to exhibit cats at local shows. Both were mem- bera of the late Siamese Cats Club,
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