A fire did damage amounting to several thousand pounds in Cheetham Hill.
The Empire Cap Works on Derby Street was left little more than a smouldering ruin as thousands from around the neighbourhood came to look.
A women was knocked down and killed by a tram on Hyde Road, dying four days later from concussion of the brain.
The driver told an inquest that he had sounded his horn many times but the women did not appear to hear him. A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
It was announced that 2,500 wounded soldiers had now passed through Manchester making it one of the greatest hospital centres in the country
Readers of the Evening News were told the stirring story of the bravery of a Pendleton man.
Private Charles Taylor of the Cheshire regiment was a machine gun range finder and on the 24th August, during the retreat of the BEF from Mons, he regiment was holding the road to the East of the town.
Taylor was holding a gun and by himself held the line after the other gunners had been killed. It was first reported that he himself had been killed but he was taken prisoner by the Germans, his mother receiving a letter to say that he was well.
