TRAIN BLAZES

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1930, Page 7

TRAIN BLAZES

WILD BEASTS ROAM FREE 14 OF CIRCUS TROUPE KILLED EIGHTEEN OTHERS DYING CRASH INTO PETROL TRUCK ELEPHANT SCARES VILLAGE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Mexico City, Nov. 27. Fourteen bodies have been removed from the charred wreckage of a circus train which backed into a car loaded with petrol near Irapuato 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 the flaming petrol which spread Over their sleeping-car that their recovery is doubtful.

Meanwhile soldier and civilian posses are scouring the' neighbourhood in search of two elephants, three lions and two jaguars which escaped from the menagerie car. One of the fnaddehed elephants lumbered through a village five miles from Covarrubias this morning, giving the inhabitants the scare of their lives.

The scene at the wayside station where the train caught 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 iiito one coach and so terrified the passengprs that some plunged through the windows. Soldiers finally frightened off the maddened beasts.