The evening world., 1889-05-01
AMID FIRE and PANIC.
Many Chicago s~ightseers Seriously,
Perhaps Fatally, Injured
The Disastrous Close Of q Great Days
Celebration.
Premature Fireworks Explosions
Throw Great Throngs Into y Frenzy.
ESPECIAL TO THE EVENING WORLD,

CHICAGO, May There is o long list Of
sufferers to-day from the series Of distressing
accidents which occurred in connection with
the pyroteohnic exhibitions which marked the
,lose Of yesterdays celebration.
As nearly as it can be made ont at this time
the list Of the probably fatally injured is as
follows:
EsENBE9e. FRED, thirteen years old. inhaled
GRAFT. DANIEL, thirteen years old. body
burned.
FARRIER, Mrs. ,GEoRaE F., body crushed; suf-
fers from heart disease. =.
Unknown boy, burned and taken home; will
die.
Other seriously and some Of them perhaps
fatally injured are these:
ScHULTzE, AgGUsT. nineteen years old, hands
and face burned, by explosion,
injured internally.
CRowLEY, Miss, back injured; unable to ait
HouLIHAN. JNo., seventeen years old. legs
and body burned.
knocked down. unable to stand;
SoHUBERT, MMRs. MARY. %rempled by, horse.
SCHUBERT, MISS LETA, badly injured.
Numbers Of other people. including several
children. were painfully cut and bruised.
One Of the three exhibitions Of fireworks ar
ranged by the Centennial managers was given
in the Lake Front Park. a large, fat inclosure
in a central part Of the city. Fully 100, 900
people were III the park and on ad-
The trouble here arose from the premature
s s1p1SsIGRn Of One huge &c tRS 1sGe' shot S1 ont fro%
the stand and %sapirmed through the peo-
PHI olfeiios%ceogE ch B mo sUsryRiG stsr in s it, coarse; .. An,Hth q
where and we're brutally trampled upon as they
The people we're massed in walls as solid % the
frowninR stones Of the auditorium against which
Of excitement broke the great mob into scores
q tremend9us brushes and stanpedes. Under
sSqisfs s p SSild Esa,' t aaa leSlf'd nnsaert9 aae
Of the vast sssemblage. First he pressure on
ditor T9Ss stadebaier's sbbS Guiding i6HnS and SSdi The Art Art In.
stitute. Then the reaction came, and with .
s s5f the T iaRe s sisa MOI RS Ea f fGrSfd c eattwrr sab SlTSSs
trains were forced to stop, powerless TO get
through the press. Of people.
to keep order were tossed about, as they might
have been on a billlowy sea, but the Eorst was to
auditorium, and when the greatest jam came,
as it soon did when the fireworks were over and
thu psG who On had ih Been snn u snfGsp tie sse t he P PgTd.
technics, the collision was frightfuI.
Men fought and cursed and bore each other
down, the women and children mean time get
f f1ns sae under wGa'i loot Of and ind s srf%asIobi By t itResus Tsas
of heels, their cries going unheeded in the din.
The policemen in despair threatened to shoot
unfortunate weaklings. Some officers did
draw their revolvers and fire in the air 70
brighten the mob into quiet, but apparently
nothing could stay the outbreak. It was not
until the west-bound thousands at last forced
their way ont into Wabash avenue that the wild
scene ended.
The Grant boys accident was q. separate af-
fair-the unexpected explosion OF a " flower
pot :" bomb.
A runaway horse got into the midst of the
struggling crowd in one of the streets and added