SENASATIONAL OCCURRENCE IN SYDNEY.
EXPLOSION AT AN FNTERTAIN- . "MENT. ■
A PANIC-STRICKEN MOTHER,
Sydney, this day. A sensational occurrence took place in the North Botany Town Hall last nieht. During the progress of a limelight entertainment, a jar, of methylated^spirits exploded, severely burning three women in the audience, and a panic was narrowly averted.. During the excitement, a woman threw her baby from the balcony into the body of the hall, bub the child escaped withoub injury. ...^ ■ Tho explosion fired parb of bhe hall, bub the flames were quickly extinguished. The women who were burned wore conveyed to the Hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 87, 12 April 1894, Page 5
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