PICTURE THEATRE PANIC.
CAUSED BY A CRY OF "FIRE!" • By Telegrapb-Press Association—Copyright, Brussels, December 23.: Fifty people were injured in the panic at the picture theatre at Barraques,, whicharose through a film taking fire. ! There were seven hundred people ! present. , The panic was caused through a men shouting "Fire!" Though the film was immediately extinguished, the occupants of the galleries jumped on the 'spectators below..
Some of the twelve persons killed were crushed to death in, the exits.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 26 December 1912, Page 5
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78PICTURE THEATRE PANIC. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 26 December 1912, Page 5
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