Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — 250 PERISH AT DANCE [ARTICLE]

250 PERISH AT DANCE

Terrible Disaster Occurs in a Town in Hungary. Two hundred and fifty persons were killed and many others injured in the village of Oekoerite, in Hungary, when fire broke out in a hotel where a ball was being held. A coach house connecteu with the hotel had been fitted up as a ballroom, and was crowded with several hundred guests when the fire started. It was first noticed when a woman’s dress was seen to be ablaze, and a moment later the gowns of several other women were In flames. A panic followed, and tn a mad rush to the exits many persons fell and were trodden to death by others. To add to the horror, the roof fell in before the hall could be cleared, and many injured ones and those who, because of the crush at the doors, had been prevented from escaping, were buried with the dead in the ruins.