AN EXPLOSION OF CHEMICALS.
. ♦ . MANY FAMILIES TRAPPED. 9 . ' (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTEM TELEGBAPH— COPYRIGHT.) ZAGREB (Hungary), March 30. A midriight * explosion of photographic chemicals, due to a fire on the second floor, trapped 45 families, spreading panic throughout the Star Film Agency's seven-storey building. Flames ignited the stairs to the fourth storey, preventing all egress and necessitating the inmates jumping from the windows into sheets held by firemen. Six were killed, 25 were injured, and four who aro missing are believed to bo killed. ,■ »- ■ The adjoining building also was destroyed. Police, soldiers, and firemen quelled the outbroak, which raged for 12 hours.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20510, 1 April 1932, Page 11
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