St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-28

two fatally injured and ten more seri-
ously hurt. At midnight only thirteen
| of the dead had been identified. They
| are:
LEO COHEN, aged twenty-five.
! JENNIE HENSEL, aged eighteen.
JACOB ROSENTHAL, aged ten.
NORRIS MALICIOUS, tailor, aged thirty.
| LOUIS AMOSKI, aged forty-eight
LOUIS LEVENSTEIN. aged twenty eight.
GABRIEL BERNSTEIN, aged four. a
| THERESA BERNSTEIN, aged five.
! IDA FREEDMAN, aged fourteen.
SUSAN ROSEN, aged eighteen
NENA LEWIS, aged twenty
| - SAIZERBERG, boy aged twelve.
-- WOLF, man aged twenty-eight.'
The others are at the morgue awaiting
Identification. The injured at the city hospital
are: Mrs Freedman, aged twenty-five
crushed; Mrs. Goldman, aged forty, badly
crushed; Milda Goldwait aged sixteen con-
tusions and shock; Morris Schaefer, crushed;
| Jacob Goldstein, aged twenty, crushed; Abra-
! ham Rosenthal, aged thirty, crushed; un-
known boy aged ten, will die; unknown wom-
an, aged twenty-five, will die unknown man.
| aged twenty-five seriously hurt about the
body unknown boy, aged sixteen, serious in
| ternal injuries.
PANIC STRICKEN.
| Almost all Of the victims are of Pol
ish nativity and Hebraic extraction
and many Of the injured were taken
to their homes by friends, rendering
|
plete list at this time. This theater,
which is probably the oldest in the
city, was filled from pit to dome with
people who had assembled to listen TO
Hebrew opera, which has been given in
the old house twice a week for the
past month. The ticket office receipts
show that over $2,700 worth of tickets
had been sold when, at 8 o'clock, the
sale Of seats was stopped because
there No 1aff n
mission tickets were sold, however,
after this, and it is supposed there were
at least 5000 people within the walls
when the curtain went up on the first
act. AS the capacity of the house is
less than $500 the density of the
crowd may be imagined. Ten minutes
after the curtain rose one Of the at
tendants went up to the second tier
to light gas jet which appeared to
have been extinguished. AS he turned
| the cock and applied match, the light
f1ared up and it was seen that there
was no tip to the burner. The jet was
well down toward the stage, on the
left side of the house, in plain view
Of the greater part Of the audience,
but as the glare from it showed against
the wall some one in the gallery
| shouted:
Fire! Fire! Firen' -.5.=
In an instant there was a mad scram-
| BILE for the doors, in which the whole
audience took part. The vanguard of
the terror-stricken multitude reached
the entrance on Front street, pushed
by the bowling, shrieking mob behind
! them. There those in the foremost rank
were compelled to turn to the right and
to the left to reach the double entrance
way, built in the form of storm DOORS
| Passing through these doors they de-
| scended flight of steps leading from
each door downwards to a landing,
| from whence a broad stairway of mod
crate height would have carried them
| into the street and to safety.
HELPLESS MASS.
The steps leading from the doorways
are about five feet high, but the land
ing at their base is narrow. Down these
frenzied people hurled themselves in
the frightful struggle to reach the open
air and to escape the certain death they
thought was behind them. AS the
crowds from the two doors, one on the
right, the other on the left, reached the
landing, they met. There was brief
struggle, and then some one lost his
or her footing and fell In a moment
the crowd, pushed with irresistible
| force from the rear, crowded upon the
PROSTATE forms, and began in turn to
stumble and reel, and presently to fall
prone upon the floor, under the thou
cands of feet coming like a herd of
frightened buffaloes from behind. In
less time than 1t takes to tell 1t the
landing was packed twenty or thirty
deep with the panic-stricken multitude,
and the hundreds behind them were
| struggling over each other to reach the
| street.
The tumuft attracted an immense
crowd from the outside, many of whom
| tried to gain entrance to the theater,
| thus adding to the confusion. A doZ-
en- policemen, attracted by the shrieks
Of the frightened crowd, hurried to the
| scene, and using their clubs on those
outside, pushed through the door and
to the writhing mass on the landing.
| Among the first to reach them was
officer E. J. Kelly. Forcing his way in
through the main door, he grasped a
pair of arms, and pulling with all his
might dragged a woman from under
the surging crowd. A glance at her
face showed that she was past all hu-
man aid-dead from suffocation. Again
he reached into the mass of humanity
and pulled out boy about seven years
| old He, too, was dead from suffoca-
ton, with scarce a bruise on his body.
HORRIBLE SIGHTS.
The other officers, by this time REIN
forced by dozen of their fellows,
dragged out the PROSTATE ones, passing
them to those on the sidewalk. Ambu-
lances carried the dead to the norgue
and the wounded to the. hospital where
ever practicable. Many cases Of the
slightly injured, and in few cases of
those badly hurt, were taken to their
homes by friends When the mass on
the landing had been cleared the fright
ened mob inside was quieted down suf-
ficiently to enable the police to clear the
theater. Then it was found that there
had been no danger and that not a soul
would have been injured. had the au-
dience remained seated Nine bodies
were taken to the morgue-all Of them
dead from suffocation. Of those taken
to the city hospital fifteen are dead.
Two more will probably die before
morning, and ten are desperately hurt.
SCENES OF ANGUISH
The scene at bcth7the morgue and
the city hospital were full of horror
and pathos. The dead, ranging in age
from infancy to sdecrepitude, lay in