Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-18
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The second concert was destined to
be more full of incident. Fortunately
the intense heat prevented the assem-
blage Of large audience. Had it been
otherwise the jubilee would, in all
probability, have left sa? memories
behind it. The frat part of the pro.
gramme was sustained almost entirely
by the English band, and they were
just beginning their selections when
the hitherto bright and sunny day be
came suddenly overcast, The rum
blings OF the distant advancing thunder
came to mingle with the weakened mu-
sic OF the instruments, and lurid light.
ming flashes shot out from the overcast
sky. No attention was paid to these
threatening signs until suddenly fierce
companied -by deafenipe pesIs OF Of
thu:der and liquid-lookine flashes
Of sheet lightning. The doors
OF the coliseum were open in order to
allow tho air to circulate in the op-
pressively heated building, and so sud-
denly did the storm swoop down that
there was no time to shut them before
the clouds of dust thst came rushing
on With awful violence swept into the
building. In an instant The vast audi
toritlm was plunged in the darkness,
for the fierce eddying whirlwind caught
up the loose sand that surrounded the
coliseum on every side and carried it
along in a binding cloud until the
jubilee building seemed to be envel-
oped by. simoom., With great
promptness the police officers rushed
to the doors, and, after great effort,
succeeded in closing them. TIE
people were in. state Of considerable
alarm, when some foolish person in
the crowd shouted sire. - In an in
stant q panic seized the audience.
An immediate rush was made for the
doors, many pereons being Knocked
down and 'trampled on ladies tainted
and men struggled to reach the outlets
through the narrow passages: between
the seats. The barriers on the edge Of
the auditorium were scaled by those
near them. Fortunately the panic was
not general, but another moment might
have made it 80. Godfrey, with sd-
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grenadiers to strike mp "The Star
Spangled Banner" The effect was
electric. A panic occurred, and the
people recognized that the alarm had
been false one, and they became more
composed Those who had tainted or
been injured were at once removed. It
was then discovered that, no one had
been seriously hurt. This ending to
an incipient panic was principally due
to the GOODNESS of Dan Godfrey, for if
the scared people mad not had their
attention suddenly called away from
the supposed danger, tbore: can be no
calculating from the loss of life that
must have ensued. Very few of the
main passages lead. directly to the
doors, and the result would undoubted-
ly have been q block and crush, with
the inevitable trampling to death of
the weaker; individuals. It was some
time before the agitation of the audi
ence disappeared, but nothing after
ward occurred to mar the proceedings.
Madame Leutner sang the .sStar Span
gled Banner"' in hen. peculiar English
with great grace and expreslveness,
and was enthusiastically encored.