An Awful Disaster.
THE CIRCUS C^TASTROPH&
"'TERRIBLE SCENES. FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. A TRAGIC. SEQUEL, .; :(Per;Ma)l r Steamer.) Pour hundred persons were suffocated >an i crushed or burned at St. Peters* ;burg on January 25. The audience, numbering 800, rushed to the front door, which opened inward. Toe crowd pressed forward, and they could not be opened. The fire, lasted two hoars. Eye- witnesses state that, when the. doors were finally opened) a mass of burning persons was visible within, the horses ' and properties of the circus were all destroyed. The ice broke while the fire brigade was crossing the. river, thus preventing them frpm reaching the fire more promptly. An JtnirJishman, whose wife and three children were among the victims, stabbed a . senior member of the merchants'^ Guild m the street, and then tried to cut bis own throat. It is supposed that the murdered man abandoned his assailants' wife and children m order to effect his rifwn; escape from the burning building. The^horse8 4v runniug about wildly [increased the confusion. It is stated now that 400 persons were suffocated, crushed, or burned to death.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 63, 7 February 1883, Page 2
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186An Awful Disaster. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 63, 7 February 1883, Page 2
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