FIRE IN MEXICAN THEATRE.
MANY KILLED AND .N.HRED. (I'WITF.n riIKSS ASSOCIATION —BIT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYIUGHT.) VANCOUVER. March 14.
A message from (iuadaljara (Mexico) says that 41 were killed and 70 gravely injured on Monday in a fire in a motion picture theatre in the town of Ahuolulco. near there. A high tension wii'o short-circuited, causing: the panicstricken audience, to stampede. Twenty wore trampled io death and 20 electrocuted when the wire dropped across the hand-rail along; the front of the gallery.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20806, 16 March 1933, Page 7
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