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NYJ-N.772.116
23 Jul 1772:22 (1542)
[London] Letters by yesterday's Holland mail bring the
following melancholy account, viz. On Monday evening last,
just before the beginning of the Flemish opera at the
Theatre in Amsterdam, a small rope belonging to some of the
machinary took fire owing to a candle having been by
accident placed immediately under it, which communicated
itself to the boxes with such rapidity, that in a very few
minutes the whole house was in flames. [Describes result,
300 persons burned to death, and 8 or 9 houses nearby also
destroyed.]
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