CINEMA TRAGEDY.
FIRE AND PANIC IN RUSSIAN VILLAGE. ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN DEAD. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copvright. MOSCOW, March 22. A hundred ard fourteen are dead as to result of a fire which destroyed a cinema at Igolking, in the Vladimir Province. The spectators in a panic rushed the only exit. It is alleged that the operator was drunk. The film was being shown in a schoolroom. Many were trampled to death. Some mothers went raving made when they heard of the awful fate of their children. — [(Australian Press Association —United Service)
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Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1929, Page 5
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