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Show MET DEATH IN CHURCH. Candle Comes In Contact With Decorations Decor-ations and Place of Worship is Turned Into Roaring Furnace. Mexico City. Fire and panic which occurred whllo a Now Year religious celebration was In progress In a church on a ranch, near San Luis Potosl, cost the lives of soventeen and serious Injury to moro than eighty, chiefly women and children. News of "the disaster reached tills city Monday. Tho victims woro workmen work-men employed on tho hacienda and members of their families. Tho small church was packed. In tho course of tho ceremonies a candle fell from Its socket and ignited dry moss with which tho building was decorated. Tho flames spread quickly. quick-ly. Of those who escaped death by burning or suffocation, many wore killed or Injured by being trampled In the rush to escape through tho narrow nar-row entrance. Few escaped without Injury. |