A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
THREE CHILDREN KILLED
A FOOLISH EXPERIMENT
Received July 15, 9 a.m. LONDON, July 14. A harrowing incident, resulting in loss of life, has been reported. While seamen belonging to the warship Hermes, at Durban, were giving a display of fire-saving apparatus, three children were placed.on top of temporary buiidings in order to show the facilities available for life-saving. The children were killed owing to premature ignition of the building through the mistaking of a signal. The spectators of the tragedy thought the children were dummies.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9140, 16 July 1908, Page 5
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88A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9140, 16 July 1908, Page 5
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