Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-14
A FATAL BLOCKADE.
Panic In = Chicago School Caused by Es-
Gaping steam-One Pupil Killed, One
Fatally Injured and Fifteen Others Hurt
During = blockade Caused by Coaverg-
Ing Streams OF Chiidren-The Victims
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Gaping stesm--One Pupil Killed, One
Fatally Injured and Fifteen Others Hurt
During = blockade Caused by Coaverg-
Ing Streams Of Chiidren-The Victims
Were Trampled Under Foot.
CHICAGO, April lO.-One pupil was
killed, one fatally injured and fifteen
Others hurt at noon yesterday during
a panic at the Won Humboldt public
school, Rockwell avenue and Ilrsch
street. The mad rush of the children
was caused by the bursting of steam
cock on the radiator in one of the class
rooms and the subsequent crying of
fire. by the frightened boys and
girls.
The dead pupil is Daniel Gunstein.
II year old, who lived with his parents
at 702 Dania avenue. He was trampled
under the feet of the panic-stricken
throng, and expired while being taken
to st. Elizabeth hospital. He might
have survived the injuries caused by
being trampled upon, but the suffoca-
tion from the terrible crowding was
| fatal.
The fatally injured pupil is Andre W
Anderson. 10 years old, whose home is
at no Rockwell street
All the injured were trampled on
and bruised and cut. Most OF them
were taken from the school in an un-
conscious condition to the hospital and
adjoining homes for medical treat
ment. There were 1,176 pupils in the
three-story school building, which con-
tains sixteen rooms.
THE FATAL BLOCKADE.
When the steam came kissing from
the coil of pipe with terrifying noise
the pupils were being put through their
lessons preparatory to being dismissed
for the recess. The children in the
room where the steam was escaping
instantly rushed for the door leading
to the stairways. The panic spread to
| the pupils in the other rooms, who,
rushing for some means of escape col
lided and formed the fatal blockade.
The larger and stronger ones trampled
over the smaller and weaker children
in their wild flight to place of safety.
leaving trail of bruised and uncon-
scious forms behind.
THE STAMPEDE WAS PARTLY STOPPED
by the presence of mind shown by
Principal W. J. Barthold and other
| officers whose pupils had not already
rushed from the rooms. They locked
the doors and kept the frightened chill
dren imprisoned until the panic was
over. This quick action no doubt
| saved the lives of scores or more of the
pupils, as the panic had spread to every
room in the building. All the injured
fell in heap at the bottom of the
| stairway, which was narrow one
used by the teachers.
When citizens, police officers and
| firemen came into the building they
found little 20 do except pick up the
small, unconscious and bruised forms
of the injured, and after restoring the
| more unfortunate ones, remove them
to their homes or the hospital close by
| in ambulances.
IAErF WE'RE HEAnrRFNhrNe SCENES
when !. efss as ather relatives
fright tn eke huiais F sAe
safety af tAesf 6Hss
| Wild excitement a..a nau uiiestations ol
grief, added TO the screaming Of the
pupils and the changing OF tie fire APP
paratus, patrol wagons and ambu-
lances, made a scene of confusion and
terror, which quickly brought to the
corner an immense multitude of people
When some of the bigger boys had
reached the exits and realized that the
| danger was over, they rushed back into
the building and carried ont the girls
and little boys who were either uncon-
scious or too weak and frightened to
move from the screaming, scrambling
mass of juvenile humanity.