CIRCUS TRAIN AFIRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11376, 29 November 1930, Page 5

CIRCUS TRAIN AFIRE

14 DEAD; IS IN HOSPITAL

•ELEPHANTS, LIONS, AND JAG-

CARS LOOSE

VILLAGERS FRIGHTENED BY

MADDENED BEASTS

(IT.J’.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) VANCOUVER, 'Nov. 27.

A fire aboard a circus train touring. Mexicoi caused 14 deaths and released '.wild animals, terrifying the quiet countryside,, The locomotive drawing the- circus ears rammed a carload of gasoline) exploding it.

Lions, boars, and elephants raced through’ the quiet streets of Guadalupe. The elephants escaped into a •forest) 'wrecking everything in their •path.

(TJ.P.A. by Elec. Tol. Copyright) (Received Nov. 2S, 7’ p.m.) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 27

Fourteen bodies were removed from the charred \wreckage of the circus train, which hacked into a car loaded with petrol near Irapuaeto, and a minute later was a. 'mass of flames. Eighteen more of the circus troop •of sixty members .are in hospital, most of them so badly burned by llaming petrol, which spread over their sleeping- ear, that their recovery is doubtful, ’’ ' Meanwhile, soldier and civilian posses are iscouring the neighbourhood in search of two elephants, ‘three lions and two jaguars which escaped from the menagerie ear. One of the maddened elephants lumbered /through a- village five miles from Covarrubias this morning giving the 'inhabitants the sqare of their lives. The scene at the wayside station where the train caughti fire and the 'animals broke from their cages, was described to-day by rescuers, who •killed some of the animals before they made, off into the surrounding 'wild country. Lions frantically seeking to escape from the flames, dashed into one coach, so terrifying passengers that some plunged through the windows. Soldiers finally frightened off the maddened beasts,