| Show A HORRIBLE terrible slaughter by fire in a ball ring CINCIN KATTI april 4 A special from the city of mexico says tim liepus cs published the following advice from calaya colaya on saturday afternoon about forty five minutes past 4 the bull ring of calaya colaya was crowded with spectators of the general national sport A compana of bull fighters from leon was still playing with the first bull when a rire suddenly broke out on the sunny side of the plaza A panic seized upon the vast assemblage and a frightful catastrophe was the result the plaza was constructed of wooden reeds etc and it was due to this fact that the majority escaped without injury being able to force an opening to permit an exit at different points but many women and children jumped from the top a distance of JW to teet and over persons wore seriously wounded eighteen lives were lost the sides of the piazza being lined with matting as dry as tinder and there being a slight wind blowing the amphitheatre was in a blaze in a few seconds nine dead bodies in some cases so charred as to be unrecognizable were taken from tho smocking ruins nine per aona were so badly burned that they died in a few hours sixty nine persons wore very badly burned and at least ten of them will die this week fifty persons in escaping were knocked down and trampled upon by cho panic stricken throng and are very seriously but not fatally injured the bulls maddened by the roaring of the aames broke loose from their stalls and rushed wildly through the surging mass of humanity tossing ablott and knocking over all who stood in their way among the eighteen dead were iwo women who were first gored to death by the bulls and their bodies afterward burned the scenes in the neighborhood of tho bull ring sickening beyond description women and children divested of their dithing do thing and crazed with suffering from their bums ran aimlessly through the streets and could scarcely be overtaken or collected by their friends several persons lost their reason from the severe mental shocks to which they were subjected the tire was incendiary in the celaya jail were a number of prisoners army deserters etc who had obtained permission from the authorities to attend the bull fight they acre accompanied by a strong guard of soldiers to prevent their escape but one of the deserters surreptitiously struck a match and lighted onu of the dry pc tales in an instant the sol side of tho ring was ablaze in the confusion and excitement the prisoners succeeded in making good their escape taking chances to effect their ends the best society of celaya was in attendance it was easter sunday the return of the season of gaiety after lent there was an unusual number of ladies and little children present and these evere the sufferers no man lost his life helpless little ones and their mothers who could not debert their offspring were the victims of the appalling ca celaya is day on overy side ia heard the sound of wailing for loved ones dead dying or suu oring is the saddest tragedy thai has occurred m the three 1 centuries of the cites history |
