CIRCUS TRAGEDY
FOUR DEATHS IN FIRE BRAVE WOMAN'S SACRIFICE MADRID, August R In a vain effort to save tho lives of three children in a burning circus waggon to-day the "circus mother" lost her own life. Tho children also were burnt to death. The circus was travelling on the road near the town of Gratis, in the province of Huesia. Cinema films which were stored in the waggon suddenly dared up. Ihe door was locked, and the children were cut off. Tho woman could havo escaped easily by a window at her end, but sho turned back into the flames' and died with her charges.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21881, 17 August 1934, Page 11
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105CIRCUS TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21881, 17 August 1934, Page 11
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