Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies
Sep. 13, 1957 - Thirteen Houses - Two Shops Swallowed By 120ft. 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 have a been wrecked - and more than 350 people have been evacuated - but nobody was hut. The crater was started by a fracture in a sewage drain 10ft. down. It is of the land collapse would increase - the whole area lives in fear of their homes disappearing. Photo shows: View of the wreckage of some of the homes - during the creeping earthquake at Farnworth, Lanes
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