HUNDRED MONKEYS BURNED.
FIRE AT MENAGERIE. More than one hundred monkeys, parrots, cockatoos, and tropical birds were roasted alive in their cages at Blackuool a few weeks ago when a bazaar and menagerie, as well as two adjoining music shops, were destroyed by fire. There were 250 girls working on the four floors of the building and. after rescuing as many monkeys and birds as possible, they escaped into the street in their overalls Many of them dashed back to try to save the remaining animals in the menagerie, and a number wept hysterically as they watched the firemen fighting the flames. Soon after the last person had left the building the screaming of the birds and animals, trapped in their cages and doomed to perish in the flames, was heard. A constable who tried to reach the birds and monkeys on the top floor was overcome by smoke and rescued unconscious by firemen.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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