DANCERS ABLAZE
■. o 'c is “NED KELLY” REACTED. UNREHEARSED THRILL \ ~ (Ahßtrxlian and N A Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, April 30. A sensational incident occurred on the .showground in connection with the fortficbming police caimival. b One of the acts in the play “‘Wild Life in Australia,” depicts thp despent of'Neel Kelly’s gang, resplendent as bushrangers,, upon’ plenrowan Inn, represented' by a small Hession hut. Five-'couples, were dancing inside, and these should imye rushed out when tye bushrangers arrived, but 'then the hut burst into flames. The canvas . along the bottom ;' had been saturated with petrol, and a fourgallon tin was standing, in; the doorway. " ' ' ’ - As the bushrangers - gallqped up, firing a fusilade of blank'cartridges, a horse upset' the, petbo.l tin which caught alight. Instantly the hut was a mass of ' flames ‘ enveloping the dancers, who struggled through the narrow doorway, with hair and clothes afire; Some collapsed'outside. Six, severelyj burned were removed to the hospital. ', ' "’ ’ ; '
* The scene caused' great excitement. There were thifity'’ thousand' spectators when the accident occurred'.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1925, Page 5
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