FIRE IN A THEATRE.
TERRIBLE PANIC. mm following cable message is suppleimtiTT to a cable which lias evidently been delajed in Lransmissioa.J [STECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATIOS-] Beceired September 7th. L3O a.m. Loxdos, September 6. The fire beganon the stage and spread with great rapidity, the back portion being ablaze within three minutes. The rit exit was cleared with difficulty, thus allowing the audience in the lower parts of the house to escape. The gaQery exit become blocked, and the pnple ma Je for the windows and roof, many of them jumping to the ground, a diirtnrr of forty feet, and sustaining aenous injuries.
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Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6850, 7 September 1887, Page 5
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