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NYM(G.772.129
20 Jul 1772:24 (1082)
[News from London] May 16. 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. The smoke and
confusion was so great, that, though many escaped out of the
house, a large number amounting to near 300 persons we are
sorry to inform the public, perished in the flames. . .
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