Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1911 — NINETY PERISH IN FIRE [ARTICLE]

NINETY PERISH IN FIRE

Tragedy at Moving Picture Show in Russia. .. qr ■■ /. Y I fe Ninety persons, many of whom Were children, were burned to death and forty others were injured in a fire that destroyed a moving picture theater at Boiogoie, Russia. The flames started while the exhibition was In progress and quickly enveloped the building, cutting off every avenue of escape. . Futile attempts at rescue were made by those who happened to be near the exits when the fire started an<d by those from the outside, but the fury of the flames drove them back before they could reach the shrieking victims, who in their efforts to get out of the bulging fought desperately among themselves.