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Show I One Hundred People Injured in Panic Collupss of Seats in Circus . Results - in the Wounding of Many People. ' . CHICAGO. 'June IS Nearly ' one hundred. people sunk in a struggling, strug-gling, yelling mass through splintered boards in a collapse of a reserved section of scats during tho performance of a clrcu3 here. It is known that one man, six women and two children were seriously Injured, and It is supposed that scores moro wore hurt whoso names were not reported to the police. Thc panic among the 2000 people ln the tent was Intensified by tho plunging plung-ing of two horses that broke from thc ring in which they wero performing and ran Into the crowd. During tho excitement excite-ment the treasurer disappeared with more than 5600 of the show's money. It la supposed tho accident wa3 due to, tho ;rcmoval of tho back props outside out-side tho tent by boys. Tho side propn were found to havo broken off and somo of them were rotten. ,57 |