Cinema Fire Followed by Terrible Panic: Over 60 Dead Changchun, Mar. 20. ible catastrophe occurred on Tuesday evening when, as the result of the fassing of an electric wire, " cinema caught fire while a performance was in pro-ress. The cinema was a makeshift building, fimsily constructed and with only one narrow entrance, with no provision for_safety-exits in ease of fire.
At the first sign that was on fire a terrible among the audience, which made 2 rush for the exit with the result that many persons, most of them women and children, were crushed ito death, A stiff ' south-westerly breeze which was blowing at the time caused the fire to spread rapidly, and the building was soon la mass of flames.
At first it was feared that more than 120 persons had perished but,
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