Show BOASTED IN theall FIRE scene of horror beyond description occurs when play house in in mexican city is burned fire started from moving picture machine audience became panic stricken the narrow exits being beina crowded with bodies of weaker ones city of mexico exico Al between and persons were burned to death and many were injured tn in a fire w which destroyed the flores theater in the city of acapulco sunday night the news of the disaster reached hero here monday telegraphic communication with aca having been destroyed owl owing ng to the fact that the tha telegraph office adjoining the theater was waa burned and all wires put out of commission the flores theater was a wooden structure and over 1000 people crowded antu it to witness a special performance given in lionor honor of gov arnor damian flores of the state of bueno erra who was visiting the host at tho the time one of the numbers on the program consisted of a series of moving pictures while the operator was waa exhibiting those these a film caught alre and a blaze was quickly communicated to somo some bunting which had been used for decorative in an incredibly short time tho the names flames spread to all parts of tho the structure there were but three narrow exits and the panic stricken an delonco rushed to them many persons falling to bo be crushed to death their bodies choking the way to escape for others the screams of those imprisoned were warp horrifying owing to tho the rapidity with which the fire spread and its intense heat it was impossible to attempt rescue work and those imprisoned were literally roasted alive as tho the firo burned ieli little smoke and few were suffocated the efforts of the fire department deportment were confined to attempting to savo save the adjoining buildings and the firemen succeeded so well that the property loss was small many of tho the dead are from the first families of the state the affair at the theater being a social event of considerable importance and calling out the wealthiest and oldest families tor for miles around in some instances the municipal authorities caused large trenches to be dug and into these tha th bodies were laid identification has been impossible most of tho the bodies having been burned to a crisp |