LU-LU'S THRILLING ESCAPE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2685, 3 November 1876, Page 3

LU-LU'S THRILLING ESCAPE.

» SHOT INTO THB AIB AND AX.HOBT SASHXD TO VIBCBfI. The Dublin Freeman's Journal gives the following account of the accident to Lu-Lu at Henglers circus, Dublin: — "Lu-Lu was hoisted up and went throngh a series of feats on the trapeze fchat were equally characterised by grace and daring, Then came the great feature of the evening. Lu-Lu nd her manager, M. Farani, took their place upon the improvised platform, from which it was rather pompously announoed she was to leap to a trapeze fifty feet above her. The audienoe were requested to concentrate their attention upon her, as her movements were almost too rapid for the eye to follow. Lu-Lu stepped upon top of the spring that was visible on a level with tho floor of the platform. There was a dead silence among the audienoe, there was a slight click, as of some machinery, and Lu-Lu stepped quietly from the spring on to the platform. The audience applauded, and the manager explained tbat the mishap was due to some easily remedied defeot in the maohinery, and that Lu-Lu would perform her almost equally celebrated feat of tumbling three somersaults in the air, which she accordingly did. Again ehe stepped on to the spring — cautiously this time, and with a very noticeable hesitation. For a moment she stood half bent, with her hands down, and a nervons tremor pasted through ber limbs and body. Again tbe signal was . given, and this time with terrible effect. Lu-Lu was shot up through the air like a rocket. But the direotion, though not the force of the spring was defective. Instead of rising, ae she should have done, in a slanting direction towards the bar whioh she was to catoh, and the ropes that bung above and below it, to prevent the possibility of failure and accident, sbe was shot up in a sheer perpendicular line into open space. A fearful sight it was. She seemed for one moment as she reached the highest point to be poised in mid-air fifty feet above ground quite clear of the ropes and the trapeze. She grasped wildly at space, and then, with all her limbs rigidly extended, fell with fearful racidity. Half of her body struck the netting whioh was not sufficiently extended to effootually save her, but wbioh effectually broke her fall. She was jerked out by the rebound, the baok of her head struck the cushioned edge of tbe orchestral compartment, and she rolled beneath the platform. The audience poured like a torrent over the barrriers, amid shouts and screams and expressions of compassion and consternation ; and it was with tbe utmost difficulty that a semblance of order was restored, and the injured girl conveyed to tbe dressing-room behind. Dr E. A. White was at onoe procured, acd soon the reassuring rumor, afterwards officially confirmed, leaked out that the injuries were not of a dangerous character.

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