GIRLS IN FLAMES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1913, Page 2

GIRLS IN FLAMES.

PAINFUL SCENE IN CHURCH

LONDON, "May 26. TEere was a painful scene during the celebration of High Mass ai> the French church in Leicester Square, London, yesterday morning. In the middle of the service a young girl, dressed in white, commenced to rush along the gallery and inr. a moment it was seen that her clothing was on fire. Two other girls ran to her assistance, and the flames spread to their dresses, too, and the three rushed down and across the floor of the church, causing a panic among the worshippers, many of whom were trodden down in the excitement, while many more fainted. Everybody hurried -out of the ohtarch, while the organist played a solemn voluntary, and the officiating priest pronounced the "Dominus Vobiscum," the choir alone responding. When the panic was over the congregation returned to find that neither o£ the girls was injured badly, and the service was completed. It transpired that the child's long veil came int contact with the flames of a gasstore.