PANIC AT A PICTURE SHOW.
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright New York, August 27. An explosion occurred during a moving picture entertainment at the Morgan Grant Opera llouso at Cannonsburg, a small town in Pennsylvania, and an alarm of fire started a panic. , Women and children became jammed on the stairway, and many wero knocked denvn and tramplcfl to death or smothered. The death-roll totals twenty-fivo'. Many others wero injured. Numbers of gallant rescues were effected.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1218, 29 August 1911, Page 5
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