FORTY-ONE KILLED
DISASTER IN CINEMA
HIGH-TENSION WIRE
(Received March 15, 10 a.m.) . VANCOUVER, March 14. A message from Guadala Jara, Mexico,states that forty-one persons were killed and seventy gravely injured on Monday night in a motion picture theatre fire in the town of Ahualolco, near there. A high-tension wire shortcircuited was the cause. The panicstricken audience stampedod, and twenty were trampled to death, and twenty wore electrocuted when the wire dropped across the handrail along the front of the gallery.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 9
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