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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VI, Issue 1172, 19 November 1885, Page 2

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A grancftyStioa to Madame NilMon by her countrymen resulted in a dreadful loss of life. As early as in the evening people_were streaming, towards "tfteTrtStet? '-Tfbed'^RUslSn arrived, (»h(M-tlysfte^9 o'clock, iUU estimated tha«he'in*»Bof^e<>ple' t tinlbiberedn6le«». Jtbjfti^ft3i9Jrjion«^JJf»ieninir chwrrf ' greeted the diva's arrival. Unable t*M reach the principal door- of the< hotel, • *« ad- - mittanoe at a side entradfei and was presently, bowing to what was probably the largeatand most excited audience* she ever looked upon. *-••.-> < -•oagrf the crowd 1 begakHo'Saperae I ward. The first movement of the miss cawed a: -frightful omih, whioh was horribly intensified by lie pressure of ■ISyrtK.^v/fc? X «ni«a»«i theoutskirMoxUht fiowkt) A rascally gang of roughs helped to still further, precipitate a calamity by trying to work their way through the-oonfused and chaotic multitude. With a rush like the flow of a,' mightj river the excited maw of peopl«f r nonses. The parenie£t In fron,4 0$ ihe -. houses had been torn up, and the ground Jnst T lMr9«niriuierea place was reached the stone pavement ended at an abrupt descent in the ,grade^ of the stre^ £ Here those in advaioe of the crowd . halted an instant, but - being•'AnmoM and ttIL^TW teowd swarmecT* on with the entire abteiice.of retfcm or control, charaotermio of such a crowd in an' emergency. Men, -women, and children were'instantlY piled one upon andib&in oneireit/cruthea, bleeding/ shrieking, and undistinguishable mass ofhnmsp^y^o . . ' . The horror of the scene was inersaaed by the demoniac yells of the roughs, who the police finally forced a. passage and removed the dead and ibjurea, they found ■ that 18 persons bad been killed in the rush. Many people it- it believed were ieridUßly ; injured' eariy ii^^he ,panic bj t betng trampled under the feet of horses. A proxnmantfftftten wss separated from two daughters, aged 10 and 12 yean. He > afterwards found the bodies trampled al« most beyoabVxecognition. , A woman ex*. \ cited searching for her child, broke into *m.lp ««rtst thftrfttlof corpses, and it was found tbat she bad gone mad. were utterly powerless fo prevent the aeoident or