The herald., 1897-10-16
DANGERS OF
GREAT CITY
Given With Fatal Realism
at Cincinnati
A THEATER DOME FALLS
Crushing People Seeking
Amusement
WARNED BY FALLING PLASTER
MANY TIMID PEOPLE MAKE
THEIR ESCAPE
OF Those Who Remain Three Meet
MANY TIMID PEOPLE MAKE
THEIR ESCAPE
Of Those Who Remain Three Meet
Sudden Death, Five Are Fa-
tally and Hundred
Slightly Injured
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire
CINCINNATI, Oct. 15.-Three per-
sons were killed and over thirty others
were more or less seriously injured by
the falling of the dome Of Robinson's
opera house this evening.
AT about S:45 o'clock, soon after the
raising of the. curtain for the perform
ance of Dangers of a Great City," the
plastering began to fall from the CEN
ter Of the dome ceiling, forty or fifty
feet above the heads Of the people seated
in the parquet. The house was fairly
we'll filed, but not crowded.
The plastering fell in small particles
at first, but enough to alarm some Of the
timid or cautious, who retired. A little
later the plastering began to shower
down in great chunks. There was a
rush from the gallery, which was not
very we'll filled. The balcony was soon
emptied. Those in, the dress circle re-
tired as promptly as possible, and,
strange to say, without an apparent
panic. The crowding OF these to the
door obstructed, the passage of the peo
pie from the parquet which accounts,
in a measure for the number of casual
ties. Nobody expected at the moment
any other danger than from the falling
pastering. Suddenly, ard with great
crash, the great center truss of the CELL
ing. eighty feet long and thirty feet
wide, came plunging down. The egAds
Of it struck on the two gallery wings
and doubled 1t up in the CENTER sending
it down into the parquet with a great
/ scattering of joists and trnbers. Moth
ing on. the stage was harmed. Of course
there were means from the iCjured. and,
as often happens, the loudest from those
least hurt.
The news spread rapidly, and there
was rush of patrol wagons and fire.
men TO the scene. The salvage corps,
with it's wagon, was first on the ground,
and it was followed by all the police
patrol wagons, who carried the injured
to the Cincinnati hospital. The list a
this hospital showed three dead, five
dangerously, If not fatally, injured. and
twenty-six more or less seriously in
jured. In addition to these large
number, proba bly, 25 or 30, were so slight
ly injured as to be able 10 walk home.
Of the seriously injured at the hospital
several will require amputatior. Of
lin BIS, yet every one is refusing to sub
nit to the operation A score of sur
geons volunteered their assistance to
the hospital corps. A sufficient num-
ber was accepted.
The scene in front of the hospital door
was sad one. Hundreds Of people
gathered there, clamoring for the
r1ames of the injured. An attendant
stood at the doorway with list of
those brought to the hospital and ars-
swered the anxious inquiries. Many
names were inquired for that were not
in the hospital list
At the opera house ropes were stretch
ed across all approaching streets and
the police had all they could do to keep
| the crowd Of 1000 or 5000 people from
| crushing through. All sorts of wild
rumors were afloat and public curiosity
was on tip-toe, all the more ardent be-
cause of these rumors. There was a
wild story afloat thako man was miss
| ing. 1t was wild story, for he could not
be in the opera house, where the debris
was so scattered that it did not form
piled up mass anywhere.
Anyone standing at the door Of the
hospital, in front of that pitiful sorrow
full, apXiously inquisitive crowd, could
understand how not one man, but that
many men, women and children were
missed by friends at home.
Following is a list of the dead and in
iured:
The dead:
AN UNKNOWN MAN.
MISS LUCY COHEN.
MRS. GEORGE KLOMAN.
Dangerously injured:
MIR. GOLDMAN.
MRS. STUDDER.
MARY sTUDDER
MARY HAES.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
Seriously or slightly injured: Pearl
Hall, Grace Connor, w. j. Weiss, Jacob
Weyle, Harry Hess, John White, Amelia
Write, Mary Howe, Ella Morgan, Della
Algeir and her three children, Stanley,
Joseph and John; Daisy Farhead, S. E
Long, E. ]. Fairhead. T. I. Wiley, Fred
jerks. William Molen, W. ]. McCabe,
Clint Dean, Kate White, Maggie Stud
der, Samuel Rosenbaum and Clint Steele.
The damage to the theater building
was nothing at all, to the stage compar-
atively little, to the gallery almost moth
ing, to the dress circle much less than
one would think from the debris scat
tered around through the parquet, where
the main truss landed, The truss rested
in the parquet very much in the shape
of capital letter v. The wonder is that
90 few were hurt and Of the few hurt