| Show d I ILL ROOM TRAGEDY THREE HUNDRED MERRYMAKERS MEET DEATH WHEN DECORATIONS DECORA-TIONS CATCH FIRE I Door Had Been Nailed up to Prevent Admittance of Scores Anxious to I Attend and Dancers Were Caught In Veritable Fire Trap MatoSznlka Hungary Tho village > ot Oekoorlto and the adjacent districts liavo been thrown into mourning by a terrible disaster at tho former placo 7 Monday which resulted In tho death of 290 persons and tho serious Injury of 100 others 4 A public ball was held In tho coach 1 i liouno at tho hotel It was a great t arnllko structure decorated with tinder dry Juno branches left from a previous entertainment to which wore added for the occasion other decorations decora-tions and Chinese lanterns The festivity fes-tivity attracted pleasureseekers from nil the surrounding country and the building was so packed Just before tho ball commenced that the single door that afforded entrance and exit was nailed up to prevent the admittance admit-tance of scores who clamored out Aida Wlillo the dancing was In full awing a pine branch caught fire and fell to tho floor It blazed furiously and almost Instantly the dresses of several women burst Into flames The lire spread with astonishing rapidity A dreadful panic ensued the revel lorelosing their bends completely Many of them with lames shooting out from their garments rushed toward to-ward the barred oxlt whero a surging mans were jammed together Women nnd men fell and were trampled un dor foot Those In front vainly endeavored en-deavored to tear open tho door but wore crusted helplessly by the preo sure of the crowd behind Soon tho roof crushed In tho blazing blaz-ing wreckage falling on tho helpless victims so that many of thoso who had hitherto escaped the Jinnies wore struck down by beams or burled under un-der debris When the door was final I ly broken open somo few persons es I caged but most of these collapsed before be-fore they got far Inside the building build-ing were heaps of charred corpses |
