Four actresses wore burned death in the Apollo Music Hall fre, due to a short circuit, which started on the stage at the height of the performance, and within a few seconds the entire hall was ablaze. The audience succeeded in escaping through the various exits, The roar of the flames and the screams of women were heard in the adjoining Theatre, where the audience, consisting of 'a thousand. pani stricken persons, stampeded. They Were quickly reassured that they were not in danger and marched from the theatre to the tune of the "Royal March."
The dead actresses, one of whom was German, had left the stage, but they were tapped in the dressing-rooms.—Reuter,
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