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Show SCHOOL CIRLS BADLY BURNED. They Became Tangled I'p In a String- of rhineae lantern at a Fete. Lonpon, Jan. 2. While a school fete was in progress at Wortley. neat-Leeds, neat-Leeds, yesterday a, string of Chinese lanterns, with which the grounds were illuminated, became detached from their fastenings and fell upon tho heads of a bevy of young girls. In a moment the dresses of several of the girls were ignited, and a sceno of the wildest excitement ex-citement ensued. The other pupils rushed to the rescue of their comrades and beat out the flames with their hands, but in doing this they suffered severely themselves, a number being badly burned on the hands and arms. Fifteen girls were more or less burned, and it is feared some of them will not aurvive their injuries Up to the present time four deaths are recorded as the result of the lire at tiie school fete at Wortley and several in jured children a-e not expected to recover. |