TWO HUNDRED DEAD
U, - ■ FIRE IN NEfiM DANCE HALL Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, April 24. According to a Mississippi inesaage, 200 negro men and women were burned to death when flames racing through decorations consisting of dry Spanish moss trapped them in a single-doored dance hall, the windows of which were boarded up. ' The Coroner said the bodies wero << piled up like cordwood.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23560, 26 April 1940, Page 6
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64TWO HUNDRED DEAD Evening Star, Issue 23560, 26 April 1940, Page 6
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