PANIC AT PICTURE SHOW.
A FILM ON FIRE. TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED. FIFTY OTHERS INJURED. (Received 10.20 a.m.) BRUSSELS December 23. A panic attended by scriou.-, loss of life occurred in a cnnniatograph theatre at Barraques. A film caught fire, and though it was quickly extinguished, a panic arose through a man in the audience shouting fire.
There was instanti_v a frreat rush for the doors, and occupants of the .galleries ,*-»**-■ Deti on to the h'-ads of the spectators below. The exits became jammed, and when the panic was finally quelled it was found that twelve had been killed and fifty initrred. The killed and injured were mostly children.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 307, 24 December 1912, Page 5
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