Show CHILDREN KILLED I IN WILD STAMPEDE f Sixteen n Dead and Forty Injured at Entertainment in England J RUSH RUSH FOR BETTER SEATS Little Ones Trampled and andS S Crushed When Crowd Starts for Lower Floor Barn sley England Jan 11 A A 11 A stampede stampede stam stam- pede ped of children to obtain better seats scats at an entertainment hero o caused the deth heath leath of or 16 and the Injury of 40 10 0 others some ome o of whom will wi die So H sud sudden en and so 50 ip overwhelming In its ItH IH fatality waRthe was waR he tue disaster that the community tonight to- to night Is 18 stunned and cn can scarcely realize re- re to I alize alzo what has haM An had been arranged for r then them i in in a public hall and sed r because e of its IR at attractive nt- nt nature there was a great crowd of oC children on hand to witness it IL I. I When hen the show he began hegan an the Saler gallery and the cheaper seats were er with little on ones s and even n the aisles were wei-o dangerously ly choked The management man man- realized this thiE and nd as there ther was more s spare space ace lo to spare pare on the lower floor foor It i was decided to send Rend some of or the children In iii the gaIO gallery down Iowa stirs stairs Ono One of the ushers s. therefore fore called caled out Some of oC the children upstairs may mry come down to lo the thA lower floor noor This Ibis was an nn invitation imitation in too attractive o to be he resl resisted ted and at ft once a great hotly body of or the children in the te ral gallery e I rush rushed d for the stairs and tried to dp descend Then same the lie tragedy Some of tho those p In the vanguard slipped and fell fel but the Impetus of oC those behind was so great reat that there was waR no stopping and anda a living 1111 stream of struggling little ones swept over the unfortunates some of whom were Immediately trampled d to death deth Panic General The frightened screams of or the tho chill chil chi chi- dren only onh served ened to make malo matters maters wor worse l A 4 panic of or fear ran through th the entire gallery aler and those thoe who had hadnot hadnot hac not Intended at al first nr t to leave their seats Jumped up and plunged Into the mad struggle for Cor the exits exis It I could not have hare hl c been worse worse if I the building had he been an a afire re One after another tho the weaker ones on the stairs were crU crushed hed down cown and either smothered or trampled to death while many ninny who managed to escape Instant death were either se severely severely se- se ev e- e v verely rely or fatally hurt The scene was a n terrible one Above tho the rush rush-i o ot of little feet came the tho shrieks of or fear tear of or tho t and the cries or of Pain of tho the Injured und dying g Ushers Ushers and police polee pushed their way up tho the stairs and tried to calm colm the terror terror- stricken youngsters torK hc could not do It I In this thin direction however and nod do- do vote vote-d. their energies toward thoRO who fell One Ona utter aSter ner another on Vrho fel want W vp do In Ii 11 this thin mad madS madness md S Z fW I t n W. W J t tet jt lm ness was as as nece ar to avert ort a panic In lii Ufo tho jower part of ot tho the house When tho the children ower know knew that no- no 10 loCal i-loCal SYM vb did not r re realize ro- ro alize alizo how hov It I wan until tho tin h hors ers ors police wore were able to conduct thorn thom to the streets In I safety 0 y Jole Iu The Tho panic was In a measure quieted C the tho police polee reserves commenced an nl In Investigation Iii Iii- 1 of or lie tho stairway A fearful was presented The Tho stairway uy was was literally strewn with wih dead and in- in 11 lured children The he living were ere speedily speed speed- fly ily removed to hospitals and their homes and the tho dead dad laid ll d' out ont in tho the corridors on tilO ground floor Joor Here Hero the scenes were pitiful in the tho extreme extreme The news of the tra tragedy edy spread with wih Incredible rapidity and und parents and relatives relatives rel rel- rel- rel atves of or the lie victims hurried to the thc hall hal and ane clamored for their loved ono ones ones- Some mothers when whon the they learned that their little ones had lost their lives became frantic with wih grief and It I was necessary to restrain tH them II Tonight ht the tho community Is plunged Into grief an and it is probable that a aday aday aday day of public mourning for the little victims will wi be bo sot set aside I J |