SIXTEEN PEOPLE INJURED
Collapse Witnessed by 50,000 Spectators Present - Wild Buffaloes Stampede

Guthrie, Ok., June 11.-
Fifty or more yards of the mile and a quarter grandstand surrounding the exhibition arena at "101" ranch collapsed at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, sixteen persons being more or less seriously injured. The accident was witnessed by 50,000 spectators attending the entertainment. The injured:

Daniel C. Christensen of White Rock, leg and arm broken.

Mrs. Mary Deisal, Red Rock, ankle broken and left side paralyzed.

Charles S. Deisal, Red Rock, ankle broken.

Maude Delsal, severely bruised.

Mrs. S. P. Galloway, Carmen, leg broken.

Mrs. W. H. Murray, White Rock, foot crushed.

Mrs. Miles Smith, Newkirk, ankle and arm crushed.

Sadie Smith, aged 8, of Newkirk, ankle crushed.

Dr. A. J. Smith of Colony, Kan., foot crushed.

Mrs. M. Gerber of Bliss, knee dislocated.

Mrs M. S. Vanhorn of Newkirk, foot crushed.

W. J. Fellows of Cleveland, hand crushed and hip wrenched.

Mrs. George S. Stephens of Stroud, aged 53, leg broken and foot crushed.

O. L. Smith of Emporia, Kan., chest crushed.

Mrs. Sophia Love of Tokawa, foot crushed.

Mrs. W. T. James of White Rock, back injured.

C. E. Hawkes, Cherokee, foot crushed.

Mrs. H. C. Heskell, Ponca City, arm crushed.

The entertainment, including a buffalo hunt by Indians, an Indian ball game, riding and roping contests and other wild west sports, were given by the Miller Bros., owners and operators of the "101" ranch for the benefit of the delegates attending the National Editorial Association. More than one thousand newspaper men attended the sports and hundreds of these were accompanied by their wives. The excursion trains brought in the thousands upon thousands from all ajdjoining States, while the farmers for forty miles around came in wagons and carriages. On two different occasions, while the crowds were cheering some of the pleasing numbers on the program, sections of the grand stand fell and the cries of the injured could be heard above the noise of the crowd and the shouts of the cowboys and Indians.

Col. Zack Mulhall was the hero of the day, at one time breaking loose the latch that held the gate into the arena and thus freeing a herd of twenty wild buffaloes. These animals had been turned into the chute leading into the arena. The shouts fo the crowd excited them and they charged viciously through the chute underneath the press stand, only to be stopped by the arena gates. Piling on top of one another these wild beasts broke down the chute and threatened to break through the fence into the swaying thousands of people. Col. Mulhall quickly realized the situation and after much effort broke the latch. A charge by the buffaloes into the crowd would have meant the injury and probable death of scores of spectators.

The large crowd was orderly and quiet, the two companies of Oklahoma National Guards and a troop of regular cavalry from Fort Sill policing the ranch. Their presence, however, was unnecessary.

There was no cruelty to animals, no intoxic ation and no boisterous outbreaks. In the roping contests Charles Williams of Vernon, Tex., made the best time record, roping and tieing a steer in 32 seconds; G. P. Martin of Arkansas City, Kan., in 45 seconds; James Warren of Cedarvale, Kan., in 56 seconds; Miss Luciulle Mulhall in 84 seconds. Miss Mulhall, however, roped her steer three times within that period.

All newspaper men were present as the guests of the ranch management and were served a buffalo dinner underneath a tent which seated one thousand at a time. Ninety-eight per cent of the delegates to the National Editorial convention attended the sports. The Wile West performance was the last of its kind ever to be held in the Southwest. It celebrated the dissolution of the Indian tribal Government and the last assemblage of cowboys.

Five thousand Indians and 500 cowboys participated.

[Though not mentioned in this article, Lucille Mulhall was mentioned in other articles as attracting the most attention with her performances.