BUS FIRE TRAGEDY
AN AWFUL SPECTACLE.
(USITED. PRESS ASSOCUTION.—qOPIRIOUT.) • (ACSTUALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Ist September. ' A big crowd watched the Nuneatoi.. disaster, -unable to help - the unfortunate people to escape. Directly the fire broke out: there rose -from the bot-
wm of themotor-bus a mass pf'flames,' and the shrieking passengers rushed for the-door. Several, were quickly'wedged ' in the, entrance', so that the door could aot be ■ cleared. The confusion \ was increased-by .a man .falling so that his head was wedged under one geat\ and bis feet under another.-- iThe rest of jlia passengers trampled on "'him ; until thi/- flames put, him -out';-of.';his misery.; The only escape fdr those remaining Was"by--.breaking the windows.-Two or tliree were -thus rescued, 'though - one v, cman was seen to be beating-the woodwork franctically until she collapsed -in-. Uie flames. Another woman seized her su.all boy and escaped, but'her husband and small daughter;failed to do io, and both perished. ■■; -.'. <:■' '■:-".■,
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1924, Page 7
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154BUS FIRE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1924, Page 7
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