STARTLING EXPLOSION
AN AUDIENCE IN PANIC. ESCAPE DOOR CLOSED. By Telegraph—Press Association - Copyright Melbourne, June 7. During a biographic entertainment at a Tavnagulla theatre, tiie gas tube was leaking. The operator struck a match, and an explosion occurred. It scattered the bricks used in weighting the apparatus in all directions. Several of the audience were struck. A stampede followed. The escape door was fastened. Numbers clambered through the windows. Several wore injured, but nono seriously.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 437, 9 June 1902, Page 2
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75STARTLING EXPLOSION Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 437, 9 June 1902, Page 2
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