FIRE IN TEMPLE
THIRTY .FATALITIES
TRAGEDY IN INDIA
(Received July 16, 11 a.m.)
CALCUTTA, July 15.
Thirty persons were burned to death and forty seriously injured, when the Sudali Madaswamy Temple, in Senhattyur, a hamlet in South India, took fire while the village devotees wero celebrating a festival by throwing flaming cloth balls, which ignited tho thatched roof of the temple and an adjacent haystack. Nearly a hundred within the temple and many wero trapped.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 9
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75FIRE IN TEMPLE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 9
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