Disastrous Fire in a Theatre.
OVER 300 PEOPLE BURNED TO DEAi'H. (Per Press Association.) Sydney, This Day. The mail steamer from the East brings news of a terrible disaster at Foochow. A theatrical performance was being held in a temple at Kwang Tow when an outbreak of fire occurred in the building. The crowd became panic stricken and tried to force a way through two small doors, which were soon so chocked that there was no means of egress from the burning building. Counting women and children, quite three hundred people perished. Of forty actors only four escaped.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 186, 9 February 1897, Page 2
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98Disastrous Fire in a Theatre. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 186, 9 February 1897, Page 2
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