TRAGIC WEDDING FEAST
THIRTY-SIX PEOPLE INCINERATED DISAPPOINTED SUITOR BLAMED FOR FIRE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 11. The ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ Belgrade correspondent reports that a bridegroom and 35 guests were incinerated at a wedding feast in the village of Sretnitza. Two hundred guests were drinking the couple’s health when flames shot through the floor, which collapsed, hurling everybody into blazing bales of hay and straw on the floor below. It has been reported that the fire was started by a disappointed suitor, for whom the police are searching.
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 15
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89TRAGIC WEDDING FEAST Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 15
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