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TRAMPLED TO DEATH.
Four Women Killed in a Mad Stam-
pede III New York City.

Four Women Killed in Mad Stam-
pede III New York City.
Four women were trampled to death and
many persons injured in Hebrew synago-
que at No. 81 Ludlow street. New York City,
as the result of panic created by cry OF
fire during services. An altar took fire from
q candle burning upon it, Some one
screamed and raised the warning alarm. In
an instant there was q rush for the doors by
nearly $500 persons. The stalrWays we're
narrow. Many fell. Others tumbled over
the PROSTATE forms.
Half of them got out to the street salelS,
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 or
nate facade AMI fire eacapes. Ihere are SIX
svnaeogues in the building. one on each OF
the six floors, They were crowded with wor-
shippers celebrating the Hebrew New year. M
Most of them were women. Inc
panic occurred at twenty minutes 70
to 10 o'clock, a. m. Wnen Lne cry
was heard from the synagogue on tne tnira
Toor where the altar caught on fire, the
greatest excitement prevailed. .Ine cry was
taken up by the congregations in the syna'
oooues on the other floors. They also made
g rI1sh for the stairs, aud in less time than
it takes to tell it the narrow stairs ana nall
were filled with struggling, sarSlng mass
OF persons. =, ... +,o -or.
stout woman already spoken OF VINO 1eii ID
the middle Of the lower flight or stalrs
rolled to the bottom and barred the escape
of all who were behind her.
T. th;rtu caoondc over lOO persons QaQ
fallen over her, blocking the lower flight OF
stairs TO within two steps OF the Landing or
the second floor, and those VINO had not oeen
caught in this hu nan jam began TO appTe,,
ciate the folly OF acting like lunatlcs anu olo
what they ought to have done at tne start'
and sprang to balconies Of % Ludlow street,
GOT down the fire escapes Of the synagogue
building, or discovered that the hre scare
was false alarm and waited upstairs;
All this pandemonium relsned IN Darely
three minutes, the time necessary 10 SELL
ont calls for ambulances and fire alarm.
The f1remen 1ecoiled at the sights that
were presented. There was slantlng piilar
of over $50 men and women packed iour
deep to the second floor, and from the pillar
were thrust appealing hanis and arms and
each throat was yelling screaming or lm'
ploring succor. ,..s
afterWard, from Ine DoGton "oe
ble. 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 tine fire companies and
began to break the jam from the top. AS
man or woman was pulled of the writing
heap he or she was passed up the stairs, and
if able to walk, hurried to the upper part OF
the building. Those injured so as to be uu.
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 disagured,
and a young woman Of twenty-five or
thirty. who appeared to be breathing, was
carried to a dru, store, but she died on the
way. ,.,
In all four women were crushed to death
and ten persons seriously iIjurei A scors
more were slightly hurt.