The morning call., 1893-10-10
SHE HAD HER DAY
Chicago Captured the
White City.
MEN CAME BY THOUSANDS
And Many Were Injured in
the Jam.
70 SUCH CROWD WAS EVER SEEN
Mad With Panic, Men Crushed Their
Fellows in the Struggle to
Get Free.

CHICAGO, Oct. "a perfect autumn day
and the largest crowd that ever congre-
gated at like gathering in the worlds his
tory combned with all the other features
to make Chicago day at the Worlds Fair
an unprecedented success. Everything on
the programme went off with perfect sue
cess, and the only thing to mar the day
or evening were numbsr of little acci-
dents inseparable from the crushing and
jamming of such mass of people as con-
gested the Worlds Fair district. Hap
PLY there were but very few serious acci-
dents, although great many people were
painfully bruised in the different crushes.
The crowd was larger than that at the
banner day Of the Paris Exposition.
Every rart of the grounds was crowded.
and the Midway Plaisance was almost i'm
passable. Never before has holiday
been so generally observed in Chicago.
| Every business-house of any consequence
closed its doors, and small stores of all
| descriptions followed suit. In all sections
| of the city these stores were closed, and
even the thousands of milkmen caught the
Infection and notified their patrons several
days ago that they would make but one
delivery to-day. Many of the large firms,
in addition to closing their places of busi-
ness. furnished their employees with tickets
of admission to the fair.
With all these people turned loose and
added to the tremendous influx of out
siders during the past forty-eight hours 1t
| is not to be wondered at that such crowd
was never seen before.
At the downtown terminals all the morn
ing the crush was appalling. At the steam
boat landing and at the Illinois Central
and elevated stations there was jam, the
like of which had never before been seen
here; while along the line Of the cable
roads people were packed in black mass
| for blocks. At the grounds the steady
stream seemed to increase rather than
diminish toward dark as the thousands Of
additional people began to make their way
in to see the night display.
The efforts of the police to keep them
back and prevent a jam at the gates were
such that women began to faint, and then
panic followed, resulting In the serious
injury of many people. There were a
number of distressing accidents on the
| fair grounds proper tonight owing to the
awful crush. The hospital record at 6
o'clock showed less than forty slight
casualties, and two hours later the number
had increased to 125. OF these the most
were women who had tainted aid fallen
in heap in the rushing and surging mass
that seemed TO have lost all powers Of
| reason.
| The worst crush of all was in the early
evening at the east side of the Transpor-
tation building, where people became
wedged in great mass and a panic COM
menced. Men shouted themselves hoarse
to still the restless throng, women screamed
| frantically and dozens tainted. Ambu-
lances were SUNNI led. and these, in try
ing to force their way through to the
sufferers, caused other stampedes. To
make matters worse at this point the pa
rade, with ineXcusable carelessness, wound
around the Mining building and forced its
way once more through the dense mass of
people. The avenue was finally cleared
| by throwing open the doors of the Trans
portation building.
There was another terrific jam at the
Sixty-thrd-s exit. where the people,
| in their impatience, broke down the fence.
| At II 80 P. NJ thousands Of people were
waiting for trains and 1t looked as if 1t
would be early morning before all Of them
| got downtown.
Never in the history of Chicago was
there such demand on her transportation
! facilities as to-day. The crowd was handled
we'll, but no human means. no system Of
| transportation, however vast, was capa-
| BILE of taking care of such vast crowd
without great difficulty. The accidents
were few and only small proportion of
them fatal. The majority of those hurt
were from outside points, and the troubles
arose from their not being as cautious as
the native Chicagoan is in navigating
streets and getting on cars. Those killed
were:
Charles A. Clark OF Buffalo. N. Y.
struck by a cable car.
| James Malcolm. residence unknown.
died from a stroke Of apoplexy at the fair.
Among those injured on the cable train
and In the crush at the Illinois Central
and Elevated stations were:
! Mrs. Louisa Rhode of Gilman. Ill.
| Andrew Wells of Waupaca. Wis.
| William ]. Barr OF Hopkins, Ky.
| o. F. Reynolds of Hattoon, Ill.
Miss Nettie Rodgers of Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs. Matilda Stewart of Fond dug Lac,
| Wis.
Charles Long of Cincinnati.
| Toby Lanson of Chicago.
Policeman Patrick Clifford.
None Of these are thought to be fatally
hurt, but they, as we'll as many others
whose names were not learned, will have
painful reminders of the day for some
| time to come.
At II 80 P. H. the bureausof admins
| tratlon of the Worlds Fair announced that
the count Of to-day's admissions cannot be
finished before early in the morning. but
they estimated the attendance at about
! 725, ,000
HER GREAT SHOW.