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MS-B.772.055
30 Jul 1772:893 (2/76)
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 machinery
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 three hundred persons, we are sorry to
inform the public, perished in the flames. Among whom were
many of the first families in Holland. . . [8 lines]
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