Show CINEMA 1191 BURNS fiffe PERSONS LOST LITTLE TOWN rown IN IRELAND 18 16 SCENE OF TRAGEDY UNUSUAL EVENT ENDS BADLY Project projecting Ina machlica Mach lic near only door bursts into flames panto panic follows less than population limerick irel ireland and fifty lives were lost and a dozen persons seriously injured sunday night in a fire in a temporary cinema hall in the village 0 of near here the moving picture tire show was be ing given in a tall hall over a 0 garage in a wooden building the hall ball was waa reached by one stairway the projecting machino caught tiro fire shil in the panic women and children were crushed and trampled in the frantic stampede to escape from the blazing hall and many were trapped to be burned alive tho the villa village gehas baa a poorly equipped water supply and the wooden building with the garage on the ground floor burned fiercely tho the village of has less than population but tho the announcement no of tho the showing ot of th the a film the decoy decay attracted an audience from froin all the hamlets about for such a show was an unusual event in those remote villages the fire started within fifteen minutes after the opening of the show the projecting machine was not mot protected by ariy any screen and was placed within a foot of the only door when it caught fire it was a seething mass of flames within a moment or so and great panic seized the spectators rushing for the door who had to pass through sheets of flame flam efrom from tho the apparatus pa ratus men women and children were knocked down and trampled in the terrible rush |