THE BOLOGOE HOLOCAUST
A HERO'S SACRIFICE. By Cable—Press Associn tion—Copyrieht. St. Petersburg, March 7. One hero at the fire at Bologoe braved the flames fifteen times, and saved thirty people before lie himself perished. A railway official and his five children lost their lives.
TOO REALISTIC "EFFECTS." Received 8, 11 p.m. St. Petersburg, March 8. Out of one house at Bologoe, every member of three families, numbering nineteen, was killed, also an engineer, his wife, and eight children. Eighty-two bodies have been identified. The showman had announced a film representing a collision of trains, accompanied "by appropriate noise representing the crash. The spectators assumed that the explosion was part of the entertaintnent, until the flames lapped the walls. Then there was an appalling rush.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 9 March 1911, Page 5
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124THE BOLOGOE HOLOCAUST Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 9 March 1911, Page 5
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