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Show Terrible Accident. Elko, Nevada, Neva-da, bad an appaling sensation on the nittht of the liUh, which is thus related relat-ed in the Independent of the 20th: ! A terrible accident occurred at the ; Court House night before la.-t, during j the performance given by Professor C. j A. Lewis and troupe. The court room was filled to overflowing, the greater j portion of the seated audience being I ladies and children. The enter'ain-l enter'ain-l nient was a most excellent one. and the ! audience was delighted and in hij:h ' spirits until near the close, when the janitor ot the court hou-e essayed to turn the lights down in order to daiken the room for the exhibition of a tableau. The middle chandelier, containing six large coal oil lumps, with their globes and chimneys hung immediately over the heads of a number of ladies, and wis attached to a pendant bar from the ceiling by a sp:ral screw, of the existence ex-istence of which, it appears, the janitor jani-tor was ignorant, though he knew the chandelier could be easily turned round. In thus turning it, as he had frequently-done frequently-done before, in oider to reach all the lamps, the whole thing came down with a crash, the lamps rolling upon the fLor under the feet of the audience, two of them bursting and scattering their flaming contents over the ladies, and a great column of flame shooting up instantly almost to the ceiling. The scene which followed beggars description men, women and children rushed into the flames from the rear, in hope-- of reaching the single door of the room which offered the only safe avenue of escape. Getting into the flames, and finding their further progress pro-gress cut off by the dense throng crowding into the door men leaped over the balustrade inside the bar, while some of the ladies swooned and rent the air with their screams. Mrs. Smith, wife of D. L. Smith, the druggist, drug-gist, sustained more severe external injuries than any one else. She was sitting under the chandelier when it fell, and the contents of one or more of the lamps were emptied into her lap, satiiratinr her clothes. whi'h immedi ately took fire. Before the flames could be extinguished her lower limbs were severely burned, in spots, from the feet to the body, her clothes from the knees downward entirely consumed, and badly charred from that point to the waist, while both wrists were severely se-verely and both hands slightly burned. Her wounds are severe and painful but not dangerous. Mrs. Harry Ilarville was knocked down in the doorway and severely trampled before she could bo extricated. It is feared she received dangerous internal injuries. Mrs. Kich-ard Kich-ard Cameron, who also sat under the chandelier, received the contents of a lamp in her s'ippers and had both feet badly burned, but received no injury, we believe, above the ankles. William B. Dyer had his left hand fevere'v burned liolu iLc rtii.-t to the t'A'.ii'luiij : of the fingers, while endeavoring to j extinguish the flames. William Owens, L. Wilsey, Mr. Osbourne and others received slight burns about the hands whi'e rescuing the ladies and extinguishing extin-guishing the flames. Little Alice, aged eight years, daughter of Mrs. Mac of the Veranda Iloteljumped out through a second story window, and sustained no injury save a slight scratch on the knee. |