DEATH-ROLL OF 32 IN THEATRE FIRE
MORE THAN 200 MEXICAN HOUSES DESTROYED ZACATEPEC (Mexico), June 5. At least 23 persons are dead and 25 are injured and hundreds are homeless as a result of a fire in a theatre. The blaze is alleged to have been started by a cigarette thrown into the operator’s cabin by an angry spectator. The fire destroyed more than 200 houses and several entire families perished.
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Southland Times, Issue 23838, 8 June 1939, Page 5
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