The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-30

and was going to step forward with the
best excuse he could think OF, and ask
the audience to disperse as quickly and
as quietly as possible, hoping in this
way to keep the actual state Of affairs
from their knowledge.
Unhappily there was hitch in letting
the curtain down, and the mischief was
done. A boy in the gallery, by some
fatal stroke Of ill-fOrtune, spied tongue
curtain, and with a boys want of
thought he cried out, "FireW
Then ensued scene which I shall
never forget il l live to be a hundred.
Every man, woman, and child in the
theater seemed to grasp the situation in
an instant, and all were at once trans
formed from human beings into raging
devils.
Fear made them mad. They would
not listen to syllable which the man
ager said, although he abjured them in
Heavens name to keep quiet, and liter
ally yelled at them that Lnis was their
best chance, and that at present there
was nothing to fear.
He might as well have spoken to the
angry waves on a stormy night at sea.
The mad crowd rushed on-on to each
nlace of exit, tearing at one another,
striking one another, curslng one an
other. IN their frantic eagerness to save
themselves.
Sex and age were utterly 10 st sight OF.
Strong men looked tO their strength to
save Ihem. Poor, pale faced women,
many with babies in their arms, were
crushed almost to death against pillar,
and wall, ana seat.
Ii any one seemed TO lag or to offer an
obstruction, his neighbor w0uld strike
him in the face aud push him out or the
way. Every now and then man or boy
would clim0 down hand over Dand, and
let himself fall into the pit, at the imm-
uenJ hazard OF his own and other peO-
pies lives.
Some halt-drunken wrGtches OF both
seXep seemed scarcely 10 realize the
horror of their situation, and reeled to
and fro, Laughing wildly in a hideous
mockery OF mirLh. Horrible oaths, the
sNrieks of women ana children, the
crash of benches and doors, as they
we're forced by the frantic crowd,
mingled tearfully with the crackle Of
| he flaming scenery, which was now al
most all alisht.
There must have been very few edu-
Gated men present, owing both TO The
position Of tle tueaJer and the fact that
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