The crowd scene at Illinois State Bank after the Wingfoot Express caught fire

1919

The crowd scene at Illinois State Bank after the Wingfoot Express caught fire

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On July 21, 1919 еleven persons were killed and twenty-eight injured when a gigantic dirigible on its test flight caught fire and fell 1,200 feet, crashing through the skylight of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank building, Jackson boulevard and La Salle street, shortly before 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon.Nine of the dead were employes of the bank, trapped and burned to death in a withering rain of fire caused by the explosion of the balloon’s gasoline tanks as they hit the floor of the bank rotunda, where over 150 bookkeepers and clerks, nearly all girls, were working.
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