TRAPPED BY FIRE
TRAGEDY IN JAMAICAN THEATRE Kingston ’Jamaica), Nov. 24. At least live people were burned to death today when an explosion started a fire in the Gaietv Theatre. The explosion wrecked part of the building and trapped men and women clerks There were no patrons in the theatre but it is not known how mam employees were them. Crowds stood in front nf the buildln ,r and watched helnlcsslv as victims c’awed at the heavv glass r1o o ”s. which had been jammed shut by the explosion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 28 November 1947, Page 5
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