CINEMA TRAGEDY
EIGHT.PERSONS SMOTHERED TO DEATH. FATAL JAM IN STAIRWAY. NEW YORK, August 25. A message from San Luis Potosi (Mexico) states that eight persons died of suffocation and many were injured in an unusual accident in a cinema theatre. The crowd on the balcony, on the conclusion of the programme, started to move down the stairs. 'Someone stumbled, causing 50 persons to fall in a heap. Those at the bottom were smothered to death before they could be extricated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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80CINEMA TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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