The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-16
A s'aE.ic---.a:a Alarm "a Fire i1a tht
Brooklyn 0pcaa-sEo:.se--"-a Lively
'ki.,,c III 81 Matinee.

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Brooklyn Gpca;s-sEoGse--"-a Lively
II.nc 1T Il Matinee.
At about halfpast 3 Yesterday afternoon
an alarm Of fire waS raised at the Brooklyn
Opcra-iIousc, right in the middle q the
afternoon performance OF UcEyoy'& Liter
uicon.
At the tir.a the house was full Of ladies
aud Children, and the cry of " fire" threw
them all into 4 state Of the dircSt confusion.
In an instant the house, rose up is man,
and all ruSi!cd-rcgardjcss Of anybody or
anything-sor the doors. The Shricis of the
svonlcn and the cries Of children filled the
entire building, and the din wis for five min
Utcs or so terribly terrific, While the scene
WAS Undesirable in the extreme. Over the
seats, up the narrow aisle>. oilt into the pasS-
a.c-ways, rushed, with the greatest prcciDi-
taton, mass of terrified feminine humanity
Of AL ages. aud in the crush several people
were knocked down and walked over by the
rest Of the crowd.
Several of the performers appeared on the
stage and shouted TO the people to be quiet,
that there was no fire at all; but. for that
matter, they might as well have shouted to
STONE walls. The audience had no ears, even
for each others yclls and screams. Each
member Of ii had but one object, and that
was TO get out into the street. Hoe they got
out they did not care, 50 long as they got out,
and to attain this end they pushed, ana
squeezed, and tranpled with indomitable en-
crgy, regardless of the injury Of any one OF
OF being injured.
Such was the state OF affairs when Ser
geant Corr and officers Ennis and Kelly, of
the fourth precinct, arrived. For 4 time
al. Il 70 cfH h,
c!amor and the crushing Of the frightened
people. 1t was 4 case in which clubs under
any circumstances could rot be trulnps, and
so the officers confined themselves to forcing
buck the mass, stemming the human tide, as
it were. and preventing rs much as they
could the further injury Of anybody. They
| worked well, too. and when alterthe din and
| turmoil had all been qiicted down, they
wiped the perspirati0n from their faces, and
adjusting their caps with official precision,
looked more like the digniiied officers they
were, and then they proceeded. amid hyS-
tericsll laughing and crying, tluttering OF
Observation-Disclosures and adjusting Of dress
cs, to lind out what damage, ifany, had been
| done.
| 1t was discovered that among those most
sever;,lly injured was Miss Fowler, of White
Plains, n. y, who was on visit to this city,
and Miss knight, who resides in Wyckoil
street near Court. These two were ilnWc.
diately taken to DR.. Buffers Office, No. Ga
Fulton avenue. Upon examination it was
| found that Miss Fowler was su.icrin" from
compression of the brain, and she was imne
Giately removed by Sergeant Corr to the re-
sdence Of her friends in Cumberland street
The other little sufferer was taken home by
| her parents, Her injuries, being of an inter.
nal character, are considered very serious and
probably fatal by DR.. Butler.
In the confusion several articles were lost
and many were returned to the owners at
the time by the police. Several are now al
the police-station awaiting Identification.
Brootlyn Eagle Of Tuesday.