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Feilding Star, Volume IXI, Issue 21, 4 August 1887, Page 2

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FEARFUL PANIC IN A CIRCUS. 50,000 FAMILIES RUINED. VIOLENT EVICTION^SCENES. :, -An extraordinary catastrophe is reported from the Russian town ,of Neschin. A eircu» co^p^njr playing in a wooden building cram, mcd to the roof. A sjudden storni arose, blowing, off part of the roof, from which were suspended a number of petrblenin lamps. .In an instant the blazing petroleum was ponringover the 1 tightly packed masses of people. A fearful panic ensued, and the whole •uilding callaps^d. A large number of people . were burnt" and trampled to death, while QTer 300 were injured. t . ; « . ; V The 1 state of matters in th«inun> dated districts of Hungary is growing" worse. Many towns and villages are expected hourly to fee swept away by the rising waters, which in places are a hundred, feet deep, their roar l^eing^ audible .20 miles off. ; As the bed «f the river is higher than the inundated plains,/' the ; £oeds; cannot jdjaappear except by absorption or evapor|^iQn» which maj take two years, 3ji tno meantime the' people whose lands» crpps, andJhouses have thus been destroyed .are suffering, terribly. 50,000 families are stated to have been ruined. -v . A P WSHWW^i by^cable the eviction on' Colonel 0 CaHaghan • estate at Bodyke, liias been attended by /riolent f scenes. :■■ 5AIli Itne/, tenauta resisted and - had barricaded |heur houses. The emergency men had to break holes through the walls of every house. The friends and rela. tires of the teoauts to be evicted had assembled inside, and threw boiling water and " stirabout" at the sheriff md his; bailiffs/ and in some ins^rice* the police had to pbmt their rifles to Swvent thw bepg continued while rt bailiffs forded an entrance. It a common, occurrence on the officials entering throngH the gaps made in the walls, for? wem to be receiV«d! by women of the 'house with pails of boiji^g water and meal, so that they we^a compelled to protect then^seli^es^wi^; umbrellas, -oij^ ©yerj occasion. J^iarge^qTpe oi polioe and soldiers were present, ; while immense threatening crowds assembled from, the neighbouring^country side. .Michael E»avitt was i yery prominent in deliverspeeches and inaiting the people %b resist being turned out of their houses';