The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-15

oA0. ~ lhNNAtNh hNA " ~ ARS1 NoNNfN
case of a fire." He knew that the 'fre
door" from the parquette to Floods alley
was open at the lime of the fire and that a
number of people vert out there.
GEORGE NJ. PRICE,
doorkteper at the Brooklyn theatre testi-
fed to seeing fire d. opping from the cur
tains. As soon os he heard the alarm he
threw open the main doors, and the first,
doors from the Tarquttte to the lobby all
swung outward. The centre doors swung
both ways. The people all got out Of the
parauctte. The fire doors to Floods alley
were also opened. lie went up to the dress
circle and found the people piled upon the
floor on the first platform calling for help.
He tried to pull some women out, but they
could not be moved. The people could not
fall back. The police came in and all were
finally rescued from the place. The FIRE
marshal here adjourned the examination.
An INTERESTING ESCAPE.
a very it teresting escape from the
flames was that OF orc of the stage hands,
Timothy Owen, who made his way through
an underground passage to the coal bunk
under the pavement, aud succeeded in get
ting beneath the coal hole, where his rap
pings on the cover attracted the attention
of some by~standers. They saw the cover
move, and pryinE it up pulled out the for
tunlle fellow and a comrade.
AwIFE's REPENTANCE.
The wife Of one of the victims Of the
fire tal previously run away with oil his
money. When she lelrd of the disaster
she came weeping to the morgue, rccog-
nized her late husband and begged his body
of the coroner with loud lamentations. A
sister and brother of the deal man, how
ever, had been before her, they refused to
let him go and propose TO bury him them
selves.
The list of prisoners taken since Mondiy
to the county jail has been carefully pre-
pared under the direction of Sheriff Dag
gett.
Many persons who have mlssel their rel.
a'ives or friends had examined the list, but
up to one o'clock no names which have
been reported in the newspapers as thcst
of persons |, s. at the fire had been discov.
cred upon it.
TIE PUBLIC BURIAL
The publ C funeral of the unidentified
dead will take place IN Saturday. Memo.
rial s tvices will be held on Sunday. The
second division Of the National guard hal
been ten Tered as a military escort and will
assemble a. noon tomorrow OF Schermer
horn street. The procession will be in thu
following order Police board clergy il
carriages h%earses, escorted by military
relatives and friends city Off ,ials in car
RACES citizens. The procession will NOV,
at one. The services at the cemetery will
consist of prayers, addresses and singiui
by the choral societies. The bodies will b
taken from the two morgues by under
takers engaged without special ceremon'
and carried, each coflil in a separat
vehicle, to the place of assembly o
/, Schermerhorn street, which will be ker
free from ordinary travel while the corteg
/, passes. Business will be suspended betwee
| the hours of one and three. The lot i
: Greenwood is on the summit of the ~elevatio
AMI nearly sixty feet in diameter, Ihelo
rson Battle aTsnna near tsS<5SS
neraIs. All the collins are TO be Mike
They will BIZ plain but tasteful in construc
ton. the only ornament being a dOubl
row ofdiamond headed tacks. 1t is sur
posed that rot more than one hundre
vehicles will be needed. Services Sunda
afternoon will he held in Booley's opeI
house, the Park theater and the academ
of music. The vocal music will be undt
the direction of f. W. Lovejoy, and Il
@ instrumental music under the direction
f L. ConternO, band master Of the tWcnt.
third regiment. At a meeting of the men
c bers of the theatrical profession, a commi
tee va, appointed to communicate wi
every manager in the United States in r
C gard to arranging for benefits, and $l,5
was subscribed. All the actors and a
tresses of both this city and Brooklyn ha'
responded most generously both in monI
and offers of services.