TERRIBLE SCENK AT THE BULL FIGHT.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 26 October 1881, Page 2

TERRIBLE SCENK AT THE BULL FIGHT.

» A more terrible efetastmobe than one which took place at Marseilles on August 14 could scarrely be imagined. A bullfight had been organised in the New Circua, situated in the Promenade on the Prado. It being Sunday a vast gathering of holiday folks assembled to see the spot. All went well till about five o'clock, when suddenly the stands, which were inude of wooden plank's gave way, and precipitated the occupants, about two thousand in number, pell-mell on to the ground. The horrible scene that followed can be better imagined than described. For some minutes the shrieks and cries of the victims as they lay jammed and chushed amid the debris, paralysed the movements of the circus people, who rushpd about in the greatest confusion. But the first terrible shock over, troops were sent for and the work of rescue began. The sad news soon suread throughout the town, and iv a short time nearly all the inhabitants flicked to the spot in search of missing friends. It took peverais hours to extricate tbe dead dying, and wounded from the ruins. The latest report puts the killed flown at twelve and the injured at 150, but more bodies were believed to be still bidden under the debris. Among tbo victims ia M, T m haua, Paymaster-General . of the Treasury, who has bis right leg smashed. "While this Occident was taking place a Marseille?, another fatal bullfight was witnessed at Nimes, were two of the terreros were nearly impaled on the horns of the animate. One of the men is reported to have died from his wounds. It is now stated that seventeen persons were killed and 230 others injured by the accident at the Marseilles Circua on vSunday. The manager of the bull-fight and the carpenter, who had been charged with the construction of the building, have both been arrested.