TERRIBLE SCENES.
THE ACAPULCO DISASTER.
ROOF FALLS IN
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS Received February 18, 9 a.m. LONDON, February 17.
In connection with the disastrous fire at the Flores Theatre, Acapulco, Mexico, which resulted, it is estimated, in the loss of at least three hundred persons, it transpires that all the exits in the facade were near the main entrance.
The greatest loss of life occurred when, the roof fell, stifling the screams and groans of the struggling, panic-stricken audience.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3119, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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78TERRIBLE SCENES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3119, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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