The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-24
APANIC IN SYNAGOGUES.
FOUR KILLED AND A DOZEN OR
MORE INJURED.

ing with devout Hebrews, attending the fes-
tival services OF tue New Year, when some
person in one OF the places OF worship raised
the cry of fire. Immediately there was
panic, everybody rushed for the doors, and
the stairway, which is not very wide, be-
came packed with people. They piled right
on TOD of one another in the stairway. Some
psrson out on the street had enough pres
en,e OF mind to send out fire alarm. which
brought the department to the scene. The
frenen succeeded in extricating the people
from the blocked stairway.
NAMES OF THE KILLED.
-Four women are known TO have been
killed and dozen or more other persons
s.riousy injured by being trampled upon
by the mad4ened crowd. Some of them
will probably die.
FREDA BECKER, A years, a Russian. of
Is Ludlow street.
MIAMI ROSENrHAL, so years. IT'S Ludlow
street, married.
TyEpE BoYM, aged so. Russian, 14O
Forsythe street, widow.
Mrs. PoR1MANN, widow, 70 years, 222
Madison street.
LIST OF TIE INJURED.
Following are the names OF tie injured
persons at The Gouverneur hospital:
E1BGCCA FRIEDMAN, 10 years, fractured
skull
TuLIE STILLKER, 35 years, skull frsct-
urei and will probably die
JULIUS ALTMAN. 8 years, thigh injured.
RACHEL BoIsUK, AZ years. skull fract-
uTed.
IDA COHEN. fractured skull, injuries
fatal
HERMAN COHEN. Is years, wrist fract-
ured and internal injuries.
RACHEL BACKOwITz, skull fractured.
ANNIE COHEN, So years, avidow, skull
fsactured, injuries fatal.
Mrs. ANNIE SMILOwITz, several ribs
broken.
SIMON GREENBURG, 35 years, skull fract-
ured injuries fatal.
CAUSE OF THE ALARM.
The alarm was caused by the setting fire
by burning candle to the cloth drapery
over the altar of the synagogue Ct the Tai
mud Ihorah, which is on the second floor,
front.
There we're four congregations, NUMBER
ing nearly 1000 persons, men, women and
narrow and MRS. Smilowitz, very stout
woman, fell, blocking the passageway and
causing the deaths Of those right behind.
Tie fur synagogues were the Badolski So
Ciety, the Talmud Thornh, Sons OF Aaron
and Ee6u AChinanschef. There was also q
Hebre@ school i'll the building.
LIKE sARDINEs IN A BOX.
The rooms occupied by the CO gregations
were furnished with rows of wooden
benches gpk ha la
were packed into each room like sardlnes i'll
e box. 1t Is customary at the feast season
for The members of the various synagoRues
to hire such rooms as these for daily relig-
lCuS service, and jut now the jewish COM
lnuuIty is in the midst of the celebration Of
the New Year.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN CRUSHED.
The Railways of the building are dark
and narrow, and the stairways steep and
unprotected by ratings. AS the crowd
Surged iuto the narrow passagewav it be-
came block ID almost Immediately. Women
ela chIldrea were crushed together in a
Wild struggle TO gain the street and tumbled
over anc traupled upon each other as they
len and Slid down The precipitous stair way q.
Lueir frantic shrieks could be heard all over
t,e .'2cE, and the alarm quickly spread to
th' other congregations, which were also
Ea0aeTed In tue same building. They
poured out OF the edjoining rooms on the
east hoor and Joined the panic stricken
v.o"d adding a new borror to the situa-
ZION For few minutes itwas impossible
"Fenler any assistance whatever.
THE RAILWAYS LITERALLY PACKED.
The narrow hallway was literally packed
4 VIVA The trighted people. Some of them
"-e !ying on the floor, while others rushed
II'F their prCstTata bodies in frenzied eff
a Io'' % gain toe street. Ii was Il mad fight
1aj Ia
B e2soap9S on tne second floor and leaped into
q |"o9.test. There was no fire to be seen.
81 guy a thin film OF smoke was coming
'M sM the third story windows The
-cF' huaily succeeded in making some
81 ''"ay against the stream Of humanity
,a was pouring out OF tie building. and
yrIsu themselves within the hallway.
"en they reached the foo5 Of the first
ID ''.s"ay Iaey found G large, stout woman.
uu'9 Huuowitz. who had fallen at the
t.nGst step aud blocked the way, impris-
Deu .uele. ROundsman Cotton dragged
Ler out
''-oNsCIoUs AND TERRIBLY BRUISED.
sue was unconscious aud terribly
eu'ed and disfgurej, Tor hundreds must
tSa nv lIITaimped over her body. As soon as
Ne uIlIIlng had been cleared it was found
rraI r'I no damage had been done TO the struct-
ir.Y IRE and its only indications were the
Geu mora and charied top of the
ToI aI Almost all the buildings In the
1ia1.oorhood are tenement houses, occu-
& ro,a H' p,Inolpally by Hebrews and the entire
Fpual'n aad turned out into the street.
p5"co reserves had to be summoned to
Iue ,xcited people back.
Lax - Kramer. secretary Of the congre.
i1.9u in'Gu oI Iahund Thora Ohel Iszchok, where
WaT's ire broke out. t.told a reporter that Rabbi
I j.. a.1Io1ihsks assistant Solomon, was blow
ie vac oljyfer horn during the interva
wen the morning and midday services
"a" CANDLE IGNITING THE DRAPERY.
f,a.l1 congregation had faced away
dIef-tue dIi tue altar, which stood neGr the mid
"o'I window. There are three win
M carS Kramer turned around and saw a
d-o1o on tho altar slowly iGniting the
TRY on the woodwork that constituted
liroS5A Ack OF the altar. A boy who had been
M ra,it. eat 10 attend to the wants Of the congre-
ri frs 5u was called and told to pub out the
III tbs,% %'Ih wet towel. Instead of doing
E SI~,' NE BOY tried to blow out the flame.
a cenT men grabbed the four-branched
III intn.Suck anc threw it out of the window
III had To street. BY this time the congregation
II dov-o.l' 'oKeh into panic and was rushing
II yyorss, airs. Some CT the less orthodox
4 ting"I psrs say the fire could have been ex-
4 barss US usned ned In moment il the older menu
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