Fact #93120
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Short story:
Two hundred and nine negroes including bandleader Walter Barnes and nine members of his dance orchestra, are killed when the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez, Mississippi, USA, burns down. According to an eyewitness, "Everyone was trying to get out and crushing each other as the fire was burning them. All were crying and yelling and after a while I could smell the burning meat. I hope I never see anything like it again." Howlin' Wolf will commemorate this
disaster in his song The Natchez Burning.
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