Tongshan Road was full of stunned women, and children, blood streaming from heads, faces and clothing. Girls of immature years were sten gaping: for breath. Police despatched 80 to hospital in a police Fire Brigade ambulances re-
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Killed, appeared later in the note joon, having wandered round Kiang-Wan and Chapel, without: knowles of their whereabouts. Vie ed first ald treatment on the spot and later at St. Luke's, St Elizabeth's, the Shanghai Sanitorium Clinic, and the Institute of the Sacved Heart, while others were taken to the Lester Hospital.
The explosive force was so great that half-inch bars on the ground floor windows were twisted like cork sores and the remains of tottering walls imperilled the lives of the firemen, as in cooling they threatened to Of those in the volcan: ising room or directly above on the first floor only those near the exits were blown qut to safety, while few managed to crawl away from the fire. It was impossible to imauscine the tremendous power of th expanding steam even from an spection of the promises, The huge doors of the vuleanisers, more than Four feet in diameters, were thrown across the room, and the- interior coils became a tangled mass of iron,
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