By our
Liverpool Correspondent
A million-and-a-half sacks and bags were
destroyed in less than an hour when a storage building was burned
out and a three-storey brick building extensively damaged at the
premises of Chisholm and Company, Ltd., sack and bag manufacturers,
Field Lane, Litherland near Liverpool, last night.
About 120 employees had just left and a few typists and a couple
of directors were about to leave when the fire was discovered.
Gibson Kemp aged 13—whose mother is a typist at the firm—had
called for her. As he waited in the corridor he saw flames and raised
the alarm. Within minutes the rear storage building was blazing.
Flames shot into the main building and families in a number of houses
in Field Lane were evacuated.
Firmen from Lancashire county and Bootle got the fire under control.
The managing director, Mr Alan Roy, said that the firm hoped to resume
trade as soon as possible.
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