PICTURE FILM IGNITES.
THO USANDS STAMPEDE. London, June 27. At the Portsmouth Picture Palace, during a cinematograph exhibition of the Naval Review at Spithead, a film ignited. The operator, unable to extinguish it, closed the apertures of the operating cabinet and rushed out of the hall. A cry of “Fire!” was raised, and two thousand people rushed, terrorstricken, to the doorways. Many were crushed, and a number of women fainted. It is miraculous that there were no fatalities.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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78PICTURE FILM IGNITES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 28 June 1911, Page 5
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