TRAPPED IN DANCE HALL
200 NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN BURNED TO DEATH. Received April 25, 6.30 p.m. NEW YORK, April 24; According to a Natchez (Mississippi) message, 200 negro men and women were burned to death when flames, racing through decorations consisting of dry Spanish moss, trapped them in a single-doored frame dance hall, the windows of which were boarded up. The coroner said the bodies were "piled up like cord-wood.” Five negroes were arrested on suspicion that they started the fire as a result of a drunken quarrel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 96, 26 April 1940, Page 7
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