Show I SCHOOL OL CHILDREN FATALLY BURNED Commencement ment Day Horror Caus Caused d dBy 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 Central City Ky Five Five children who took toole part In the commencement exercises of at Mrs B. B C. C Boyds Boyd's school in this city Monday night were burned burned burned burn burn- ed four fatally while the fifth may not recover me we audience was wits ed from an applauding group into alighting a alighting lighting fighting mob and several se other children children chil chil- I dren were slightly Injured Panic was averted b by the coolness of the men menn In n the tte audience who covered the flamIng flamIng flam- flam Ing tag children with their coats Little Dorothy Clay was the unwitting unwitting ting cause of the catastrophe The Thel little ittle girls had formed In a circle and had drilled back and forth orth In their white muslin dresses the audience gathering enthusiasm as the entertainment entertainment enter- enter progressed Then the lights were vere extinguished and arid an electric candle in the hand of each child flashed flashed flash flash- I ed out brilliantly The aunts mothers moth moth- ers or ers fathers r and in tha n nn era crowd w d cheered and so en- en that Dorothy grew frightened and dropped her candle The flames leaped to the white musin muslin mus- mus lin in and in a twinkling live five dresses were afire Mothers fought to reach their children children children chil chil- dren veritable small bonfires on the tho platform The children frenzied with the pain ain made efforts to over he the the footlights to their relatives Little Louise Marshall 1 a screaming rocket leaped over the footlights and ad Into the he lap of her aunt In the audience |