FIRE DISASTER
NINE PERSONS LOSE LIVES. United Press Association. —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) * (“Received tin’s dav at 9. a.m.) NEW YORK, December 10. At least nine persons, consisting of five men and four women were killed when a series of seven explosions of an unknown origin wrecked and burned Patbe Sound film t studio.. Seventy-five people were in the building, over twenty being all ready to start recording, when the first explosion occurred, lapidly followed by six more. These people attempted to rush the exits as did fifty lightly clad girls from an upstairs dressing room, but swiftly mounting and spreading flames prevented many escaping.
Large quantities of fire apparatus and also ambulances - were rushed to the scene but it was twenty-five minutes before the firemen were able to enter, due to the intense heat. There were scenes of utter confusion, women screaming and shivering with cold until sheltered by nearly firemen. Others then began the removal of the dead and injured to the morgues and hospitals.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1929, Page 5
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