PANIC IN A CIRCUS
FOUR CHILDREN KILLED; London, July 16. ' A fire caused a panic at Saneer's circus in Taunton, Fifteen hundred people stampeded for* the exits. Two boys and two girls were killed.during the wild rush before the tent collapsed. Many other persons were sent to* hospital/several being in a critical condifon. The fire was caused by a lighted cigarette -being dropped and setting fire to'the tent.
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Te Puke Times, 20 July 1920, Page 3
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