Fatal Panic in a Menagerie.
An extraordinary series of accidents happened at a menagerie at St. Gilles les Bruxelles recently. A box containing gunpowder, which had been leffc near the entrance, by some means exploded and set fire to the clothiDg of a woman who was nctmg as moneytaker. The noise of the explosion and the cries of the woman caused a panic among the persons inside the menagerie, and the whole of the spectators, about 300 in number, made a rush for the door. Fn the confusion a child fell clo?e to a cage containing bears, and was pulled in and torn to pieces. Another child was knocked down and trampled under foot by the crowd, which was in a thoroughly terrified condition owing to the roaring of the animals and the smoke from the canvas roof, which had caught fire. The flames were soon extinguished and it*, was then found that some theives, taking adrantage of the alarm, had stolen the cashbox, containing several hundred francs, the receipts of the last few days. This succession of disasters so affected a wild-beast tamer that he attempted to throw himself into a cage of untamed lions, and was only with difficulty restrained.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 51, 25 August 1894, Page 4
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