Show LIFE 1111 IS TOMB OUT or OF SIXTEEN INTA C were crushed to death by frenzied mob at amusement hall forty others injured barnsley E england sixteen chil ken iren were trampled to death and forty others several of whom cannot live were injured in a mad rush for letter better seats at an entertainment given in the public hall here saturday afternoon there was a great crush to secure admittance to the entertainment and when tho the doors opened every seat was taken and the gallery was literally packed with children who fillod the aisles and who were dangerously massed against the lower railing with a view to relieving this crowding in the gallery the attendants decided to transfer some of the children to the body ot of the house and one usher called out some of you children come down stairs immediately the rush started and within a few seconds hundreds of children were nvere being trampled under tinder foot even those who had seats in the gallery doubtless being panic paille stricken by the screams and struggles of the crowds fighting to reach t the he staircase joined in the stampede the scene was a ter terrible one I 1 the cries of the injured and moans of the dying causing the greatest excitement among those gathered in the body or of the hall police and ushers ru rushed shed to the he head of the staircases which were literally Ite rally strewn with dead and dying and by the most desperate efforts managed to drag scores of the struggling children to the corridors below it was with the greatest difficulty that a panic among the children in the lower part of the house wag averted nil all of these eventually being taken to the street in safety |