CHILDREN BURNED.
PLAYING WITH PICTURE FILMS. MACHINE CATCHES FIRE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Chlristchurch, July 31. By the explosion of a child's kinematograph, and the explosion igniting several films on the floor, a boy of 10, Eric Billcns, and a girl of 17, Bessie Dunsliea, received severe burns on their faces and bodies : and were admitted to the hospital. The boy waa showing films on a wall in a bedroom" at his another's house at Sydenham. He was using the films that were scattered about the floor, when the machine burst. ii\to flames. A younger brother hear, cries and rushed to the door, where he met the girl coming out. He had to throw a couple of buckets of water over the flames, when he heard groans in a corner, and discovered his brother on the bed. The mother, who had been out in the yard, rushed l in and rescued her son, but was burned'about the face in doing so. The ■ boy was more badly hurt than the girl. >
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1920, Page 4
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169CHILDREN BURNED. Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1920, Page 4
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