TRAGIC CONFLAGRATION
TOKIO DEPARTMENT STORE 1800 PEOPLE TRAPPED.
MANY LEAP TO DEATH
HEAVY TALLY FEARED
.United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) TOKIO, December 16. An enormous four-storey department store at Tokio was gutted by fire which began on Hie third flour at nine o’clock in the morning. It spread upward rapidly, celluloid Christmas decorations helping the flames. Five hundred customers, mostly women and children, and 1.300 employees were trapped in the burning building. Many jumped to death. A total of 1.10 persons were admitted to hospital, but seven died. It is feared that the total death roll is heavy. Later reports are to the effect that at least 13 people are known to have been hilled, and it is believed that the number will be largely augmented when the full tally is taken. . The seriously injured number 14, and the damage is estimated at five million
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Northern Advocate, 17 December 1932, Page 9
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