USA: Convicts die in prison fire (1930)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Three hundred and eighteen convicts lose their lives in a prison fire in Columbus, Ohio Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: 318 convicts, trapped in cells, lose lives in appalling prison fire! USA: Columbus: Ohio: EXT Crowds watch outside prison as fire engines and troops along Army trucks outside prison and soldiers patrolling walls INT Bodies of prisoners killed in fire and burnt out interior of prison EXT AIR VIEW / AERIAL of flame destroyed building Background: Three hundred and eighteen convicts lose their lives in a prison fire in Columbus, Ohio FILM ID: VLVADS8KJEUXU6ZQAONN38SBOB1NH To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé