THEATRE FIRE.
Hundreds Of People Burnt To Death. Press Association —Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) Tokio, February 14. A theatre, built of wood and plaster and crammed with 1,599 people, caught fire at Antung, Manchuria. Hundreds of patrons, mostly women and children, were burned to death or trampled down and suffocated. Six hundred and fifty-eight bodies were recovered. The gallery collapsed and the yelling crowd jammed (he meagre exits. Entire families perished in the fire, which originated from a candle in the actor's room back stage. The fire spread to thirty adjoining houses, v.'liich were destroyed.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 5
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95THEATRE FIRE. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 5
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