Show SCHOOL CHilDREN FATALLY BURNED Commencement Day Horror Caused By Little Girl Becoming Excited and Dropping Candle Dresses of Children Caught Fire In an Instant Four Being Fatally Burned In Spite of Efforts of Parents and Friends to Save Them 1 Central City kyFiro child roll who took part In the commencement I exercises ot Mrs B C Boyds school In this city Monday night wore burned burn-ed four fatally while the fifth may not recover tho audience was changed chang-ed from an applauding group Into alighting a-lighting mob and several other children chil-dren were slightly Injured Panic was averted by tho coolness of tho men In the audience who covered the flamIng flam-Ing children with their coats Little Dorothy Clay was the unwitting unwit-ting cause of the catastrophe Tho little gIrls had formed in acircle and had drilled back and forth In their white muslin dresses the audience gathering enthusiasm as time entertainment I enter-tainment progressed hen the lights were exunguisnea and an eieotno candle In the hand of each child flashed flash-ed out brilliantly The aunts mothers moth-ers fathers and playmates In the < crowd cheered and aplauded so enthusiastically en-thusiastically that Dorothy grew frightened and dropped her candlo The flames leaped to the white muslin mus-lin and In a twinkling live dresses were afire Mothers fought to reach their chil dren veritable small bonfires on the platform S The children frenzied with the pain made efforts to clamber over the footlights to their relatives Little Louise Marshall a screaming rocket leaped over tho footlights and Into the lap of her aunt in the audience |