FIRE TRAGEDY
DISASTER IN MEXICAN TOWN AT LEAST THIRTY-TWO DEAD. MORE THAN 200 HOUSES DESTROYED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK. June 5. At least 32 persons are dead, 25 are injured and hundreds are homeless following a fire in a cinema theatre at Cazatepec, Mexico. The blaze is alleged to have started from a cigarette which was thrown into the operator’s cabin by an angry spectator. It destroyed more than 200 houses, and several entire families perished. Charred bodies are laid out in the streets awaiting identification.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1939, Page 5
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87FIRE TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1939, Page 5
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