A GHASTLY ACCIDENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2770, 31 January 1895, Page 3

A GHASTLY ACCIDENT.

Dalziel’s Bath correspondent says;— ' Miss f Strathmore, who was seriously injured a fortnight ago at the Park Theatre, Bath, while personating a figure in a living picture, “ The Birth of the Pearl,” is dying. The" accident was of a most remarkable character. In The Birth of the Pearl,” which was a fountain picture, the two front corners were occupied by two young women, half ensconced in mermaids tails, while at the back of them stood Miss Strathmore, her arms held upwards, her hands grasping a shell above her head. She was clad only in fleshings and a thin undervest. As the curtains opened and exposed the picture, the fountain streams began to play, throwing themselves all over Miss Strathmore’s body. Under these circumstances it was necessary the water should be at least lukewarm, so a pipe of boiling water was connected with the cold stream. The picture had been running without misadventure about six weeks, but on the night of the accident the cold stream was in some way turned off. Miss Strathmore felt the water growing hotter and hotter, but resisted the impulse to cry out. Finally, driven frantic by the scalding stream, she screamed and fell insensible. The curtain was quickly lowered, when it was discovered that the poor girl had been terribly burned. A medical man from the emergency hospital was summoned, who, after examination, pronounced the injuries to be very serious. Since then the girl has died.