A HORRIBLE DISASTER.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13049, 8 March 1911, Page 3

A HORRIBLE DISASTER.

CAUGHT IN A BLAZING TRAP-

A-HUNDRED^ TWENTY

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(Received 8, 0.5 a.in.V „ St. Petersburg, March *. The inhabitants of Uobgoe chiefly railwaying and many P«M to see cinematograph slide* dcau V with tho liberation ol tho s« ts ; and also the last day of a canmal wnic r o 1 in order that only ono per" should bo admitted at a » lh(< windows wore closed with «huitteis. Yn explosion of benzine oceuuvcl, ami in /few seconds the hall was a "^cntJCperson., mostlyn.cn, returned their presence of caped by a narrow passage, but the ™tiX bof"lto W nsmci. P lm-kH y daßM od into the buMing and made a desr ratoeffort to save the r wives and •1, 1 Iren Nearly all the rescuers pSod, the fallof the roof completing the holocaust. . Tho firciiiMi were long in *»»»1I!f' and their efforts were fruitless, lliej Si only help to remove the charred tea n» ami boards from the corpses, Jnanv of which were unrecognisable .fragments, which tho peasants lilted cm to sleighs by cantf.e light and took to the mortuary. Heart rending scenes were witnessed parents with bleeding hands digging among the smouldering ruins. Ninety corpses have been extricated, and it is believed that 120 perished.