POONA FIRE DISASTER.
VILLAGERS AT A FESTIVAL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 12, 0.20 a.m.) Bombay, April 11. Details of the Poona festival fire, in which 200 lives were lost, show that 15.00 villagers from Salumbar had assembled to witness a performance in a covered courtyard, the doors of which opened inwards and were closed by stout bars.
An explosion of a petroleum lamp fired the thatch over the yard and a stampede occurred, with the result that the courtyard was soon a smouldering charnel house.
■ There were extra exits which were known to local spectators, or the death-roll otherwise might have been greater. Many of the victims came from a distance.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1100, 12 April 1911, Page 7
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