Nightclub fire toll officially put at 487
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) –
The Cocoanut Grove holocaust took 487 lives, according to revised official figures released today by the Boston Public Safety Committee
Duplications discovered during a week-long checkup by the committee reduced the death list to the new figure from the earlier “official” total of 495.
The committee’s final check showed that 171 persons were injured. Of this number, more than 100 are still hospitalized with some in critical condition.