WEDDING HORROR
i FIRE AT FEAST 37 DEATHS CAUSED VIS APPOINTED SUITOR YUGOSLAVIA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received .February 11, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 11
The Belgrade correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that the bride, bridegroom and 35 guests were incinerated at a wedding feast in the Yugoslav village of Sretnitza. Two hundred guests were drinking the couple's health when flames shot through the floor, which collapsed, hurling everybody on to blazing bales of bay and straw on the floor below. It is reported that the fire was started by a disappointed suitor, for whom the police are searching.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 13
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