A Sad Calamity.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 149, 1 June 1883, Page 2

A Sad Calamity.

- TERRIBLE SCENE ATA > V,' i.^ ;<,i-i $SJAPft?,>oO j Aiterribje explosion is reported by -t^?.?§^lJspetß^t^haj^^poouf»ecfcaj: Revel, a town" in ' the Gulf of Finland! not far from 'St. ' : f _ More i than 2000 spectators were witnessing 4 theatrical performance when a tremen-j dous explosion suddenly took place, 1 throwing the audience into a state of panic, .and/the > s ibmjdjng; into complete' darkness. When, after some dela'yj lighjts>were brought, , : a: A frightfal scene presented itself. In the rash lor the exits, hundreds . of , the spectators' had been hurled to the ground and trampled; upon ; some 1 could be seen lying where! they had been lite^llyicrnshediby fall-; ing beams and masses of stone ; others! hurled against thTwalls by force ot thei explosion,- Jayi, mangled/ atidiibteeaingj and rending the air with their agonising; cries., Relpwas, happily atj hand, andin a comparatively short time; the building was .cleared of bodies, thej wqunded^beingiconyeyed; to theshhspitalj add the dead,,, consigned to i their rela-i tives. The number of fatalities is not; ye^.lcnpwn. ; The idisaster! is; attributed; to an escape ;pf gas- from. gutta-percha: bags employed m- ...the lighting of the; theatre. ; i;; , ; , ..,].; „.>;!«,;..) ;