PICTURE FILM ON FIRE.
CAUSES FATAL EXPLOSION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, Agust 27. An explosion caused by a moving picture film taking fire in the Morgan Grant Opera House, at Cannonsburg, started a panic. Women and children were jammed in a stairway, and many were knocked down and trampled to death or smothered. The death roll totals twenty-five, and many were injured. Numbers of gallant rescues were effected.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 29 August 1911, Page 5
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69PICTURE FILM ON FIRE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 29 August 1911, Page 5
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