FIRE ON CIRCUS TRAIN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 15

FIRE ON CIRCUS TRAIN.

SERIOUS CASUALTIES RESULT. SEVERAL WILD ANIMALS ESCAPE. (VSITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BT KLECTBIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (R«ceived November 28th, 7 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, November 27. Fourteen bodies have been removed from the charred wreckage of a circUß train which backed into a car loaded with petrol near Irapuato, and a minute later was a mass of flames. more of the circus troupe of sixty members are in hospital, most of them so badly burned by the flaming petrol, which spread over their sleeping car, that their recovery is doubtful. Soldier and civilian posses are scouring the neighbourhood in search of two elephants, three lions, and two jaguars which escaped from the menagerie car. One of the elephants lumbered through a village five miles from Covarrubias this morning, giving the inhabitants the scare of their lives. The scene at the wayside station where the train caught fire and the animals broke from their cages wis described to-day by the rescuers, who. killed some of the animals before they made off into the surrounding wild country. Lions, frantically seeking to escape from the flames, dasher, into one coach, so terrifying the passengers that some of them plunged through the windows. Soldiers finally frightened oft" the maddened beasts.-