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35 Casualties in Apartment House Fire. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 31, 1.25 p.m.) ZAGREB (Hungary), March 30. A midnight explosion of photographic chemicals due to a fire on the second floor trapped 45 families and spread panic throughout the Star Film Agency’s seven-story building. The flames ignited the stairs to the fourth storey, preventing all egress and necessitating the inmates jumping from the windows into sheets held by the firemen Six were killed and tyenty-five injured. Four others are missing and are believed to have been killed. An adjoining building w’as also destroyed.
Police, soldiers and firemen quelled the outbreak, which raged for twelve hours.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 386, 31 March 1932, Page 1
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