Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-04-05
SHOCKING reAcEDY IN AHxsCo.
yUIIs HADpxaED IT yIns oo,s People
TO DKAIH.

10 UEA1H.
CTrS ov Ex1Wo. April l.-Tne Tmo
Rspsb,ies has published ths following
advioes from Celaya: On Sunday after
noon about fsrty-ave minutes PAST four
o'cisck the bull ring ef Oelaya was
crowded with spectators Of tbe general
national sport. A company Of bali
fighters from Lion vAa stall playing
With the FIRST boil, when Gre suddenly
broke out on the SAMMY side of the
plaza. A panic seized upon the vast ~.
semhlaee and Q friehtful catastrophe
vas the result. The plaza vas cor-
stSuoted Of wooden maste, reeds, etc.,
a. d 10 vas due 70 thi1 fact that the ma.
jority escaped without injury, being
able 10 force an opening to permit a
exit at different points, 6ut many
women aD0 children Jumped from the
top, distance Of tvo hundred 70 three
hundred feet, and over one hundred
pefsous we're eeriously wounded.
RiQhseeu lives we're loet. The sides Of
the plaza being lined With mating -
dry as ttndes and there heipg Q sliehs
Wind blowing. the smphithestSe Vas In
. blaze In Q few seconds. Nine dead
bodies, in ssme caess 10 chAIfed as to
be unreooguiz sb;e we're taken from tee
fuine. Nine persons we're badly burned
and at leaa: ten OF them will die. FL
ty persous in escaping we're knocked
down and trAmpied upon By the panie
stricken th4oua and are very seeioualy
but not fatally injured.
The bulls maddened BY the roasire
of the flames, broke from their stalls
and rushed wildly through the sorRinc
mas Of humanity, tossing alofs AID
knocking over ell Vho stood In their
way. Among the eighteen dead vere
two women, Who were 6fst gored 10
Death by the buIls and their bodies
afterwards burned.
The scenes in the ceichboshood Of
the ball ring we're sickeripg beyood
description. Women and children d.
vested OF their elothirg and crHxsa
Vith suffering from their burns ran
simlessly through the streets and
could scarcely to ovsTtaken %
collected b. their friends. Several
persons lost their reason from
she severe mental shock 70 which they
we're subjected. The 6te vas incepdiA.
~. In the Celsya Jail Va number of
prisoners, army desertefs etc., Who had
obtained permission from the su,hofi
ties to attend the bail haht. 1hsy we're
accompanied by Q strong anard OF SOL
d;era to prevent their escape, bat one Of
the desertefs eurrepiisioasiy struck
match and lighted one Of the dry scees.
In an instsns ths side Of the ring vas 10
Q blass. In the confusion and excite
mept the prisonsrs succeeded in CAk-
ing good their escape. taking chances to
eject their epds. TIE bes: society Of
Oelsya vas in attendance. Il was Rss-
ter Sunday, the return Of the season Of
euiety, and the end Of Lent. There Wa
an snnsual number Of ladies' and little
children psesens, and there were the
so6efers. No man Lest his life. Tie
heiple Q iitslo oues. and their rotbeo
sho would not desert their offspring,
~eEe the victims Of the npos'linR catas
tscphc.
CeIsys II ia mourninR today. On
every sids 10 hesrd the sound of waiting
for loved ones, dead. dying or suffering
II 10 the saddess tragedy that has 90
CURED 10 The thfgs o.n.csies Of the
csi,' 8 history.