Show SCHOOL fathy hohney commencement day horror cau caused 3 i ed by little girl becoming excited and dropping candle dresses of C hildren children caught fire in an am instant four being fatally burned in spite of efforts of parents and friends to save them central city ky dilvo children who took part in tho the commencement exercises or of mrs airs D B 0 boyds school in this city monday night were burned four fatally while the nath may not recover lecover the audience was chang ed from an applauding group into a fighting mob and several other ch children were slightly anji injured ired panic was averted by tho the coolness of the men in the me audience who covered tho the flaming children with their coats little dorothy clay was the unwitting cause ot of vic tho catastrophe the little girls had formed in a circle and had drilled bade back and forth in their white muslin dresses the aud hud lenca lence gathering enthusiasm its as the entertainment tain ment progressed jhen the lights were extinguished and an electric candle in the hand of each child flashed out brilliantly the phe aunts mothers fathers fat hers and playmates in ili th tha 6 crowd cheered and applauded ap lauded so enthusiastically that hat dorothy grew frightened and dropped her candle the names flames leaped to the white muslin and in a twinkling five dresses were afire mothers fought to reach their children veritable ei liable small bonfires on tho platform the children frenzied with the pain made efforts to clamber over the footlights to their relatives little louise marshall a screaming rocket leaped over the footlights and into the lap of her aunt in the audience |