The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-10
KILLED By a HOAX.
Fatal Stampede Caused BY a
False Cry Of Quarantine.
COL RE0 GIRLS lEsPTo DEATH.
A Malicious white Mas Attempt to
Break Up . Negro Dance k1ds
In . Drowning.

kitty Allen, 2 coso-s5 z5rs aged = years,
yss 1-oEnss On tbs tide fats ca1sr the
EIzs Front "a oon 2, L oss31ck Izss 1-g2.
ss The cir@c: -esal. Of malicious aoz1-
TIE B.ze Front szsooa = soca.sc g. 81
King street, and = yua bv JOAN b-gzn--
IN f:s- tax part e Eze .z40on = : ro0r1
Csed tor dance hal L is frs4zeaJs1 u
rsgross- TIE roo-a has tEo Windows
thai iook 6oxl zrs0a ne tide Eats, .1lc-
are cove-ed viii Cd 1o-s. s.zos
and s.n5e-s IefI f-oz Ire Ire
Between TIE win3oxs mentioned and the
1eLs house = sEszee % SIX EseE, a-1 ssoos
tie SIDE Of the nsz. house yrs d4laps-
dated sax, 5,oxeo Il PLACES. and coTers1
with snox 70 s.dep:a 81 fully .wo fee
The salooa ard dance hal zere flied
las; niga;. aad tie dance xea; OF Ensr-lly.
= e-zGr.l.e vas On ami Kitty Alien
wzs On ibe 5oor. &. It's rsls
Lieutenant John Huff and O7oe-
J. z Pierce cane Il the front door z1d
looked through the sslooz- Ers-ytalng
sas quiet AID they tara@1 an3 pzs-s9 OF
the doo-- A. they do s. some white men
rnst them gn1 remarked: Are you gong
70 quarantine the saloon"
Not that | know d, " replied the lien
tenant. and passed On 4 rnornen; later
one Of me white men cred OF, IN the So
!O0H: The horse l. oaa-sofine6."
The scene thar followed xzs Wild IN the
extreme. Men and women. both white
and oolo-e9, rushed for Tie exits AID aid
disorder -eigres. The man xno ~a= with
Kiiiy Allen pushed I'd one of TIE windows
of The d1nce hal! and assisted her through.
In hsr exc!tensa; shs saw nothing out
"a =
jumped FIST and missed TIE marx Down
ste fell Twelve lee: 70 the water below. A
Eiii c-y rang ont when she di.srpes-ed.
but nothing more was heard. Her COM
psniOn, thinking only 81 MS ozn safety
and p-OEtlng- by his companions mis-
fortune. was more saccessig. and made III.
escape.
In feg minutes Il vas found that the
CRY Of quarantine hsd been hoax aud
some OF Ki;ty's friends commenced ~ look
Cor her. The open window Vas fonui and
some one remembered seeing her trying 70
get oat. Anxious heads peeted ou. and
tie truth became apparent. What looked
ike human body va. seen il the dark
water beiog. 4 rope vas secured and
Officer Pierce holding one end Ies Mare:
Dorsey down into the murky waters He
could stand on the bottom and JUS, hold
his chin auovs the wafer After
cropping around short time he
yelled up go those abose that he
had found the body. The rope was a.
tached and drawn up. DR.. Titus was
called and reached the scene Ia shor.
time. Meanwhile the inanima;e form had
been taken upstairs and PLACED n warm
room. Tie doctor learned tia. the
girl had been IN the water fully
fifteen minutes before being rescued
and. or examining her heart.
and pulse. found tha. there was no ap-
parent respiration. The work Of pumping
air into the lungs was commenced, and,
under the direction OF May Plumrner, one
Of the girls friends. hot cloths were ap-
Piled u her body. DR.. Van arrived
al II % and after talking a moment
with DR.. Titus said that hope was p-ac-
ticaliy gone. The doctors decided 70 Keep
uD the work t9o hours in hope OF reviy-
ing the patient, but found their work use
less at 1870. when all hope was gone and
she was pronounced dead. The remains
were removed 10 Bonney & Stewards IN
dertaking rooms.
kitEie Allen vas 10 years old. and came
20 Seattle about one year ago from Port
land, She has roomed AZ times over the
Blue Front saloon, but a few DAYS ago
moved with May P!umme- 10 the O-:h
house. on Maia street. She leaves a
brother, John Allen, VII lives IL Port
land. Her mother is dead.