An Appalling Disaster
oscurrei ea Tuesday, at a public hall, in the Jewish quarter of Spitalfields. Some five hundred Jew*, mostly employed in tho tjlop shupd of the locality, were enjoying themselves at n theatrical performance given by an amateur dramatic club, when one in the gallery, in hia eagerness to get a hotter view, climbed upon a gas chandelier, which broke and caused an escapo of gis. S uno one raised a cry of fire, and tho meter was turned off, leaving the building in eudden darkness. An instant stampede was made for the doors, which resulted in seventeen persons being crushed to death or euffocation, whilst many more sustained brokon limbs and other injuries
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 5 (Supplement)
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116An Appalling Disaster Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 5 (Supplement)
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