Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-01-01
BY A FALSE FIRE ALARM
D. attn Came % "a People in
Baltimore Theater
ALL DIED BY SUFFcCATl0N
IN the frautis Rush to Escape an Imag.
mary Danger They Were Trampied
IndeT FOo,


Baltimore. Dec. 27.-Tn a senseless
panic caused bv a defective gas burner
and a foolish cry of fire at the old
Front street theater tonight "a people
,,-a,,a l.itlad ,,.o fatally tn,,,,-,a ana N
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" St"eh ei''s tilolH HiAs pul -
OF the dead nave been Identified They
are.
Leo Cohn.
Jennie HenseIe
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LOUIS AihoskN'
Louis Levenstein.
Gabriel Bernstein.
Theresa Bernstein.
Ida Friedman.
Susan Rosen.
Lena Lewis.
Mr.. Salzburg.
Mr.. Wolf.
The others are at the morgue await
ing identification. The injured at the
city hospital are: Mrs. Friedman Mrs.
Goldman, Milda Goldwait, Morris
Schaefer, Jacob Goldstein, Abraham
Rosenthal an unknown boy unknown
woman, unknown man, unknown boy.
SENSELESS CRY OF FIRE.
The theater which is prohahIv the
oldest in the CITY was fiIIeG from MI
"a dome with neonle who baa assem-
bled to listen TO a Hebrew oners II Is
supposad there were 1000 naonle within
the walls when the curtain went nm
AS the canacitv is less than 25Oo the
density of the crowd may he imagined
Ten minutes after the curtain arose,
one of the attendants went up to the
second tier to light the gas Jet. As he
turned the cock and applied a match,
the light fiared up and it was seen there
was no tip on the burner. Just then
some one in the gallery shouted Fire"
Then there was a wild scramble for tn
door where the vanguard of the terror
stricken multitude reached the entrance
on Front street, pushed on by a howl
ing, shrieking mob behind them. There
those in the foremost rank We're com
PEELED to turn to the right and to the
left to reach the double entraneeway
built in the form of storm door. The
passage through these doors they
reached by flight of steps, leading
from each door downward to landing
from whence a broad stairway of mod
crate height would have carried them
into the street and to safety.
The steps leading from the doorway
are but five feet high, but the landing
at their base is narrow, Down these
the frightened people hustled them
selves IN the frightful struggle to reach
the open air and to escape the certain
death behind them.
THE CROWDS MEET.
AS the crowd reached the landing.
one to the right and one to the left. they
met. There was a brief struggle and
then some one lost his or her footing
and fell. In a moment the crowd push
ed with irresistible force from the rear
crowded upon the PROSTATE form and
began in turn to stumble. reel and pres
emily fan prone upon the floor under the
myriads of feet coming down like a
herd of buffalo from behind. In less
time than it takes to tell it the landing
was packed 20 or 30 deep with the panic
stricken multitude and the hundreds
behind were struggling over them to
reach the street.
officer E. j. Kelly, one of the first to
reach the scene, forced his way through
the main door. grasped a pair of arms
and pulling with all his might. dragged
a woman from under the surginR
Again he reached into the mass of hu-
mainly anu puiied out poS aoop'
years oid' ne TOO was ueau'