CIRCUS TRAIN BLAZE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1930, Page 5

CIRCUS TRAIN BLAZE

FOURTEEN LIVES LOST

VIED ANIMALS ESCAPE

[United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.)

MEXICO CITY, November 27

Fourteen bodies have been removed from the charred/ wreckage of it circus train, which backed into a car haded with petrol, near Irapmito, and a minute later was a mass of flames.

Eighteen more of the circus troup numbering 09 member,s_ are in the hospital. -Most of them so badly burned by limning petrol. which spread over their sleeping car, that their recovery is doubtful. Meanwhile soldiers and civilian posses are semiring the neighbourhood in search of two elephants, three lions, and two jaguars, which escaped from the menagerie car. One of the maddened elephants lumbered through a. village five miles from Coverrubias this morning, giving the inhabitants the scare of their lives. r I lie scene at the mnvside station where the train caught fire and the animals broke from their cages was described to-day hv the rescuers, who killed some of the animals before they made off into the surrounding wild country.

The lions frantically seeking to escape from the flames, dashed into one coach., so terrifying the passengers that some of them plunged through the windows. Soldiers finally frightened off the maddened beasts.