PANIC IN A PICTURE SHOW
EIGHTY PEOPLE KILLED
(DOTTED PiIBSS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) PARIS, 2nd June. While Joan of Arc celebrations were being held at Valence several thousand people, mostly women and children, attended a cinema show. A film ignited, and a. panic followed. Sixty people were killed and over one. hundred injured. Most of the injuries were due to the victims being trampled upon. (Received June 3, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, 2nd June. There were eighty deaths in the Valence disaster. Twenty women and fifty children were suffocated.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 3 June 1919, Page 7
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