Beaver Press | 1911-01-13 | Page 2 | Met Death in Church

MET DEATH IN CHURCH candle comes in contact with decor allons and place of worship Is turned into roaring furnace mexico city fire and panic which occurred while a new year religious celebration was in progress jn in a church on a ranch near san luls luis potosi cost the lives of at seventeen and serious injury to more than eighty chiefly women and children news of the disaster reached this city monday the victims were workmen employed on the hacienda and members of their families the small church was packed in the ahe courso course of the ceremonies a candle fell from its socket i and ignited dry knoss moss with which the building was decorated the flames spread quickly who escaped death by burning or suffocation many were killed or injured by being trampled in the rush to escape through the narrow entrance few escaped without injury