PICTURE SHOW EIRE
IN GEELONG PAVILION _ SIX PERSONS BADLY BURNED. X Telegraph—Preps Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, July 10. A frro occurred in the Picture PaviKon at Geelong Just niglit. One of the films ignited, and an operator tucked it up and dropped it in front of tho main exit. Tho audience scrambled out in a Borai-panic. Several persons fell into or were can girt in the flames, their clothes igniting. Sis persons wore badly burnt, and wore removed to the hospital. luo girls and a hey are in a serious condition. A number of others received minor injuries. The operator's hands were badly burned, through, carrying tho burning film.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7849, 11 July 1911, Page 5
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