Evening journal., 1889-05-02
TWO PANICS IN CHICAGO.
A Great Number of People
Injured.
A LIST OF THE WOUNDED.

Women and Children Cruelty Trampied.
Burned by serpentine Fireworks-Nar-
row Escape of an Anarchist from Lynch
ing.
CHICAGO, May 2.-One hundred thousand
men, women and children We're tossed in
waves about the big lake front park. Half a
hundred people are known 70 have been seri-
ously hurt and a number perhaps fatally.
Scores Of others suffered painful injuries.
The people were massed in walls as solid as
the frowning stones Of the auditorium
against which they were hurled when the
first strong blow Of excitement broke the
great mob into scores Of tremendous crushes
and stampedes Under the glare Of the fire
works, which the throng had gathered to
see, the faces Of thousands of women showed
white and pleading. The shrieks of children,
trampled under foot, could be plainly heard
above the booming Of the big boombs and the
cheers Of the unaffected parts Of the vast as
semblage. First the pressure on the west side
forced the crowd against the auditorium,
,
tion Then the reaction came, and with a
great roar the mob was forced eastward al
most to the lake side. The Illinois Central
suburban trains were forced to stop, power.
less to get through the press of people.
The serpentine Fireworks.
Aside from the presence of the great crowd
itself, the cause of the excitement was the
huge serpentine fireworks. One Of them
shot out from the stand and squirmed
through the people, seorching everyb Ody in
its course Another followed a moment later,
seeming literally to rip the crowd in two.
Women tainted everywhere, and were brut-
ally trampled upon as they lay in the grass
A movement of the crowd away from the
threatened horror Of q wholesale panic wa
met by the movement IN the opposite direc
tion, and the result was a terrible convulsior
of the whole body. Seventy-five policemen
sent by Capt. Bartram to keep order, wer,
tossed about as they might have been on
billowy sea, but the worst was to come. Con
gress street is narrow by the auditorium, ant
when the greatest jam came, as it soon after
wards did, when the fireworks were over anG
the people started westward and encountere,
the muldtudes who had been unable TO Sc
the pyrotechnic, the collision was frightful
Women and Children Knocked Down.
Men fought and cursed and bore each othe
down, the women and children mean6m
getting the worst Of the struggle. They wer
knocked under foot and ground by thousand
Of heels, their cries going unheeded in IL
din. The policemen in despair threatened {
shoot the men who were pressing relistlessl
over the unfortunate wealings. Some oflicei
did draw their revolvers and fire in the a
to frighten the mob into quiet, but apparen
ly nothing could stay the outbreak. Ii w
not until the westbound thousands at la
forced their way out into Wabash Rvenl
that the wild scene ended
The victims.
The victims were hurriedly gathered 1
and led to their homes and the hospital
No time was consumed in asking names
keeping records 1t is impossible TO give Il
number of persons hurt in the jam. Oh
estimate places 1t at not less than a thousan
who sustained injuries Of some sort The f.
lowing were among the injured: Mrs MAJ
Schubert, 143 Twenty-ffth street, probab
fatal; Lena Schubert, sister of above; Mi
Kitty Connors, 43 State street: Mrs. Georj
+. Farr, of $40 Dearborn street, fatal; Mi
Lizzie Howard, Forty-third street; Mrs.
b. Brady, 335 Slxty-third street, probab
fatal, Mrs. Crowley, 8, ZIG State street. Fr,
Grant, aged 10, probably fatal; Augu
Shultz l55 Monroe street; Fred Esenber
aged 10; John Hoolihan, 27S Aberdeen; Gle
Northington, wagon manufacturer; Jol
Hull, his foreman.
Another Horror.
Another panic, attended with disastro
results, happened almost the same time in t
north division Of the city. When the fiji
works had ceased in Lincoln park the tho
sands Of people rushed out pell mel in a IN
race for seats on the street cars. a sidewu
about 500 feet long gave way and sever
hundred people fell five or six feet In I
' scramble to get away women and childr
were trampled and many painfully, but il
reported none fatally injured. The crol
surged across the street and broke down I
other sidewalk. The police here were al
TO clear the street with prompttude, a
helped the injured home. Among th,
hurt were: Max Roherer, No. ISL Black Ha'
street. I. G. Sorenson; +. d. Dippe a
4 wife, No. n Orchard street James Spolo,
J aged s; John Granahan, No. 5S Hob
street; Eddie Hetches, No. 95 Hobbie sire
Came Near Being Lynohed.
One of the exciting incidents was W
messed by about 500 persons who had asse
bled in front Of the headquarters of
Engine Company No. II, at No 50 w
= Lake street. Capt L. Anderson and doi
members Of the company were at work de
rating the front of the building Suddel
a man thrust his head from a window of
fourth story Of the building east Of the
|. gine house, and, after noting the work
decoration, announced himself as an Z
j archist. He reviled the Stars and Stri
and the decorators in the most insult
manner. Little attention was paid to hi
however, until be foated the red flag
Anarchy from the window, announcing il
"My hag-my colorsm Then the crowd
n came angry and loud calls were heo
~ ''Tear down that rag or you will be sol
w you ever floated it'll" was shouted from
II hundred throats. He came very nearly
- ing lynched.
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