The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-10-10
A WONDERFUL SUCCESS.
Chicago's Day at the Worlds Fair a
Blaze of Glory.

Blaze of Glory.
Chicago, Oct. "a perfect autumn
day and the largest crowd that evei
congregated at like gathering in the
| Worlds history combined with all 9th
er features to make Chicago day at the
Worlds Fair an unprecedented sue
cess. Everything on the program wen
off with perfect success and the onl,
thing to mar the day or evening was {
number of little accidents inseparabl,
from the crushing and jamming of sucl
n massp. of people rs congested the
Worlds Fair district. Happily ther,
were but few serious accidents, al
though aegreat many people were pain
fully bruised in the different crushes
The crowd was larger than that at the
banner day of the Paris exposition
Every part of the grounds was crowd.
ed and the Midway Plaisance was al
most impossible. Never before has a
holiday been so generally observed in
| Chicago Every business house of any
| consequence was closed and small
stores of all descriptions followed suit.
In all sections of the city these stores
were closed, and even the thousands of
milllmen caught the infection and noti-
fed their patrons several days ago
that they would make but one delivery
today. Many large firms, in addition
to closing their places of business, fur
nished employees with tickets of ad-
mission to the fair. Among the more
notable features of the day were the
memorial editions of the Inter-Ocean,
Record and Times, newspapers of this
city. These papers, which were pro-
fusely illustrated, contained elaborate
descriptions of the great fire. So un-
precedented was the demand for these
papers, that from an early hour in the
morning they sold on the streets at a
premium and by the afternoon people
were paying as high as fifty cents per
copy for them. At the downtown ter
minals all the morning the crush was
appalling. At the steamboat landings
Of the Illinois Central and the elevated
stations, there was jam the like OF
which has never before been seen here,
while along the line of the cable roads
people were packed in a black mass
for blocks. At the grounds the steady
stream seemed to increase rather than
to diminish towards dark, as thous-
ands of additional people began to make
their way in to see the night display.
Never in the history of Chicago was
there such demand for transportation
facilities as today. The crowd was
handled well. Accidents were few, and
only a small proportion of them were
fatal Those killed were Charles A.
Clark, of Buffalo, N. Y, struck by a
cable car and JAS Malcolm, residence
unknown, died from a stroke of apo
plexy at the fair. Among those injured
on the cable trains in the rush to the
Illinois Central and elevated stations,
etc, We're: Mrs. Louisa Rhode, of Gil
man, ILL.,. Andrew Wells, Laupaca, Wis;
William j. Burr, Hopkins, KY; o. T.
Reynolds, and Mrs. Nettie Rogers, of
Columbus, Ohio; Mrs Matilda Stewart,
of Fond du Lac Wis; Chas. Long, of
Cincinnati; Toby Lansen, of Chicago,
and Policeman Patrick Clifford. None
Of these are thought to be fatally hurt.
The greatest crush occurred -at the
Congress street depot of the elevated
road. The crowd there was simply
terrific, and despite the utmost efforts
of the police to keep them back, the
jams were such that women began to
faint and then q panic followed result
ing in the serious injury of many peo-
pie. There were a number of distress
ing accidents on the fair grounds prop
er tonight owing to the awful crush
The hospital record at six showed less
than forty slight casualties. Two hours
later the number had increased to
125. OF these the most were women
who had tainted in the rushing and
surging mass, and who seemed to have
lost all power of reason. The worst
crush of all was in the early evening
at the east side of the transportation
building, where people became wedged
in great mass and panic commenced
Men shouted themselves hoarse to still
the restless throng. Women screamed
frantically, and dozens tainted. At 11:3O
p. m. thousands Of people were waiting
for trains, and 1t looks as IL II will be |
early morning before all of them get
down town.
At 11:SO p. m. the bureau Of admis-
sions of the Worlds Fair announced
that the count Of today's admissions
cannot be finished before early morn
ing, but they estimate the attendance
at 725,OOO. The total Indebtedness Of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition has
been wiped out