TRAGIC CINEMA FIRE
114 PERSONS KILLED
MOTHERS GO RAVING MAD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received March 2,'i, noon.) MOSCOW, March 22. One hundred and fourteen persons arc dead as the result of a tire destroying a cinema at Igolking, in Vladimir province. Spectators, in a panic, rushed the only exist.
Jt is alleged that the operator was drunk. The film was being shown in a schoolroom. Many children wore trampled to death. Some mothers went raving mad when they heard of the awful fate of their children.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 5
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