Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
TRAMPLED TO DEATH.
Four Women Killed in a Mad SIAM
pede IN New York City,

Four women were trampled to death and
many persons injured in a Hebrew synago-
que at No q Ludlow street, New York City,
as the result of panic created by cry of
fire during services. An altar took fire fro =
q candle burning upon it. Some one
screamed and raised the warning alarm. In
an instant there was rush for the doors by
nearly $500 persons. The stairways were
narrow. Many fell. Others tumbled over
the PROSTATE FORMS
Half of them got out to the street safely,
but woman who weighed 80 pounds fell
at the foot of the last fight and those behind
her piled on her.
The house where the panic and fatalities
occurred is SIX stories high, and has an OF
nate facade and fire eacapes. There are six
synagogues in the building, one on each OF
the six floors. They were crowded with wor-
shippers celebrating the Hebrew New Year.
Most of them were women. The
panic occurred at twenty minutes to
to 10 O'Clock, a. m. When the cry
was heard from the synagogue on the third
floor, where the altar caught on fire, the
greatest excitement prevailed. The cry was
taken up by the congregations in the syna-
gogues on the other aooTs. They also made
a rush for the stairs, and in less time than
it takes to tell it the narrow stairs and hall
were filed with a struggling, surIing mass
OF persons
All would have gone we'll but for the very
stout woman already spoken OF who fell in
the middle of the lower flight of stairs,
rolled to the bottom ana barred the escape
of all who were behind her.
In thirty seconds over $50 persons had
fallen over her, blocking the lower flight Of
stairs to within two steps OF the landing OF
the second floor, and those WHO had not been
caught in this hui nan jam began to appre-
cate the folly of acting like lunatics and did
what they ought to have done at the start.
and sprang to balconies Of 20 Ludlow street.
got down the fire escapes OF the synagogue
building. or discovered that the fire scare
was false alarm and waited upstairs.
All this pandemonium reigned in barely
three minutes, the time necessary to SEMI
out calls for ambulances and fire alarm.
The firemen 1ecoiled at the sights that
were presented. There was a slanting pillar
of over $50 men and women packed four
deep to the second floor, and from the pillar
were thrust appealing hands and arms and
each throat was yelling, screaming OF 1nl-
ploring succor.
ITO break the JAM" said Captain Riordan
afterward, from the bottom was imposSi-
BILE. Such an effort would have resulted in
the loss Of many more lives and would have
taken an hour. We ran up ladders to the
second floor sent in the fire companies and
began Co break the am from the top. AS a
man OF woman was pulled off the writhlng
heap be or she was passed up the stairs, and
IL able to walk, hurried to the upper part OF
the building. Those injured SO as to be un-
able to move were passed into the front and
rear synagogue on the second floor, and two
dead women were carried out of the jam in
this way. When the bottom Of the pile was
reached the stout woman, whose fall caused
the jam, was picked up black and disfgured,
and a young woman of twenty-five or
thirty. who appeared to be breathing, was
carried to drug store, but she died on thu
way.
In all four women were crushed to death
and ten persons seriously injured. A score
more were slightly hurt