Show BALL ROOM THA E THREE HUNDRED merrymakers MERRY MAKERS DEATH WHEN DECORA CATCH FIRE door had been nailed up to prevent admittance of score scores anxious to attend and dancer dancers were caught in veritable fire trap deate litin hungary gary tue tae village of and the adjacent district districts have been licen thrown into mourning by a terrible disaster at the former place monday which resulted in the death of ot persons and the serious injury of others A public ball was held la in the coach house at the hotel it waa was a great barn like structure decorated with tinder dry june branches left from a previous entertainment to which were ere added for the occasion other decoration decorations and chinese lanterna lanterns the fes tea attracted pleasure seekers from all the surrounding country and the building was so packed just before the ball commenced that the single door that afforded entrance and exit was nailed up to prevent the admit tance of scores who clamored out aide while the dancing wae was in full awing swing a it pine branch caught fire and felt fell to the door floor it blazed furiously and almost instantly the dresses ot of genral women burst into names flames the fire spread with astonishing rapi rapidity dit A dreadful panic ensued the revel lers term losing their beadi completely many of them with names shooting out from front their garments rushed toward the barred exit where a surging mass were jammed together women and men fell and were trampled un der foot those in front vainly en deavo red to tear open the door but were crushed helpless by the prea pres sure of the crowd behind soon the root crushed in the blaz ing wreckage falling on the helpless help leaa victims so that many of these who had hitherto escaped the flames were ere struck down by beams or buried un der debris when the door waa was final ly broken open some few persons es but most of these collapsed be fore they got tar far inside the build ing were heaps of charred corpses |