MANY PERISH IN ITALIAN CINEMA DISASTER.
FORTY fflpM ", RUINS j (Received Tuesday, 7.15p.m.) ROME, Feb. 28. '■■'• •’surffedi'' iik "ft shocking -dlskstep. The number of deaths is not including many phil"•vdren. ■ The-'display was given on the first floor of an bid granary oonstruated of wood at which there were- three hundred. spectators. The film caught fire and the operator’s wooden cabin was .quickly ablaze. The: hall filled with smoke. Men, wdmen and children'rushed to the single wooden staircase, which collapsed, the podesta and the proprietor vainly trying to calm the maddened crowds Many were thus burned to death, asphyxiated or crushed to death. Meanwhile there were terrible scenes in the village. Mothers rushing to see if their children were safe yrere unable to approach the burnlhg building. ‘ Moriago has no fire brigade end when firemen arrived from Treviso the building was a iriass of cinders. Thus far forty bodies have been extricated frorh ’tho ruins. The podesta jahd Sis wife escaped by Jumping from .a window. ;
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 February 1928, Page 7
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165MANY PERISH IN ITALIAN CINEMA DISASTER. Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 February 1928, Page 7
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