HORRIBLE SCENES
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
A ROOF COLLAPSES, MANY PILGRIMS INJURED. (Received June 10, 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. At Jerusalem a crowd of pilgrims to the graves of famous rabbis were watching a bonfire from the flat roof of a large building, when the roof collapsed, precipitating 200 of them upon the rest of the spectators. There were horrible scenes.
Ten were killed, and thirty dangerously injured, while some were burned to death.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10230, 12 June 1911, Page 5
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