13-9-57
Thirteen Houses - Two shops swallowed by 120 ft. crater in Lancashire Street - A "creeping earthquake' is swallowing houses one after another in the Lancashire town of Farnworth. By last night thirteen houses and two shops had been wrecked and more than 350 people have been evacuated. but nobody has been hurt. The crater was started by a fracture in a sewage drain 19ft. down. It is feared that if there is more rain the rate and area of the land collapse would increase the whole area lives in fear of their homes disappearing. Keystone Photo Shows: Carpets being handed through one of the windows of a doomed house in the area of the crater in Farnworth, Lancashire.
Photo measures 6 x 8.25 inches.
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