FIRE CAUSES PANIC IN CIRCUS
WILD STAMPEDE FOR EXITS FOUR DEATHS AND MANY SERIOUS INJURIES By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright . (Rec. July 17, 0.20 a.m.) London, July 15. * Fire caused a panic at Sanger's Circus ill Taunton. Fifteen hundred people stampeded for the exits. Two girls and two boys were killed during the wild rush before the tent collapsed. Many others were sent to hospital— several in a critical condition. The lire was caused by a lighted cigarette being dropped, thus setting lire to the lent.—Aus.-Ji.Z. Cable Assu.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 251, 17 July 1920, Page 7
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86FIRE CAUSES PANIC IN CIRCUS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 251, 17 July 1920, Page 7
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