A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT
BELTANA.
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ADELAIDE, THURSDAY.
A frightful accident occurred at Beltana,
the first station on the overland telegraph
route to Port Darwin, this morning. A tent,
in which a woman named Johnson lived with
her four children, took fire. One child
escaped, but the mother and the other three
were burned to death. The shrieks of the
sufferers are described as frightful The
child who escaped was so frightened that she
can give no distinct account of how the accident
happened.
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