PEOPLE BEHAVED LIKE WILD BEASTS.
TWO CHILDREN ESCAPE MIRACULOUSLY. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received September 25, 1.30 p.m.) MADRID, September 24. Three engineers who escaped from the fire among the last of the survivors said that men and women behaved like wild beasts. Women and children were hurled to the ground and trampled upon. It was a triumph of the strongest. Apparently the fire hoses did not, function and the safty curtain was absent. Most of the deaths were due to the collapse of a staircase. Two small children were found today unhurt in a lavatory where they had taken refuge all night. The authorities are of the opinion that it was a mistake to continue the performance with a view of allaying the panic. Tw t o invaluable minutes were lost when the flames flared up in the auditorium. Some bodies bear knife wounds and even bites in the back.—Autsralian Press Association-United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18575, 25 September 1928, Page 10
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