Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 6 | Children Crushed to Death in Panic

CHILDREN CRUSHED TO DEATH IN PANIC TALCAHUANO Chile July 14 UP Twenty one Twenty one children among attending a benefit performance at the Esmeralda theater for tor poor families ram lam flies were trampled to death late yesterday yesterday yes yes- when the thc crowd was stampeded slam stam b by a lire fire that would have harmed no one Forty persons most of them children chil chil- children dren between the ages of C G and 9 were injured In the thc mad fight to reach the streets Panic was the sole cause calise of death and injury as the fire in the projection booth was extinguished easily The fire started just as the heroine of or a serial dived from the second floor of or a house into a pool of water The film mm flickered suddenly there was a spurt of flame name from train the concrete enclosed enclosed en en- closed dosed projection booth then the cr cry of fire firel fireD Persons In the balcony nearest the projection booth jumped to the main floor and landed on helpless children too loo terrified to move Many victims were found crus crushed e in their places