FIFTY VICTIMS
THE CINEMA TRAGEDY LITTLE TRACE OF VICTIMS 48 IDENTIFIED (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.; LONDON, Sept. 7. The bodies of ten unto, twenty women and ten children were recovered from the ruins of the Drumcollogher cinema disaster. The parish priest went round the village taking a census, as the havoc was so great that there was little trace of many victims.
At a, rough estimate there were 50 deaths, which is-established only by the fact that at least this number of people were known to be missing. It is feared that the eleven injured will «ot recover.
Forty-eight victims of the cinema fire have been identified, including six of one family.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17133, 8 September 1926, Page 7
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113FIFTY VICTIMS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17133, 8 September 1926, Page 7
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