Cocoanut Grove up in flames | Sandusky Register 75 years ago, 1942: The Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston burned in a horrific fire. Flames swept through the structure by way of its tinder-dry decorations and draperies with frightening speed and scores were trampled and smothered to death in the jam of screaming humanity that piled up and blocked the four exits. It is estimated that over 490 people died and hundreds were injured.

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