More than one hundred monkeys, parrotß, cockatoos, and tropical birds were roasted alive in their cages at Blackpool a few weeks ago when a bazaar and menagerie, as well as two adjoining music snops, were destroyed fyy fire. There were 250 girls working on the four floors of the building and, after rescuing as many monkeys and birds as possible, they escaped into the street in their overalls. Many of them dashed back to try to save the remaining animals in the menagerie, and a number wept hysterically as they watched the firemen fighting the flames. Soon after the last person had left the building the screaming of the birds and animals, trapped in their cages and doomed to perish in the flames, was heard. A constable who tried to reach the birds and .monkeys on the top floor was overcome by smoka and rescued jmconscioua bj; firemeu.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 13
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148Page 13 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 13
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