The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-16
DEATH IN AN OPERA HOUSE.
THE DOME OF \ CINCINNATI THEA
TER PLUNGEs INTO THE PIT.

Three Persons Are Killed Outright,
Five Dangerously Injured nu /
Twenty-siX Slightly Injurcd-A Hit
of Warning Allowed the Greater
Portion of the Audience TO Escape
Without "A Pnnic-Several Amputa-
tiOns Necessary dangers OF IA
Great City, Being Presented.
Cincinnati, o., Oct. 15.-"The Dangers
of Great CITY," on the stage of Robin
sons opera house tonight, was cut short
in it's performance by a tragic realization
of the actual dangers of a great city. The
house was fairly we'll filed but not crowd
ed A little before $50 o'clock tonight
lady in the audience said she heard a
creeping noise, which continued for five
minutes before the catastrophe. Presently
the plastering began to fall in small par
ticles at first. After a while the plaster
ing began to shower down in great
chunks. 1t came from the ceiling, which
supported the dome. There was rush
from the gallery, which was not very well
filled. The balcony was soon emptied.
Those in the dress circle retired as
promptly as possible, and, strange to say,
without panic.
The crowding of these to the doors OBJ
structed the passage of people from the
parquette, which accounts in a measure
for the number of casualties. Suddenly
the great central truss of the ceiling,
eighty feet long and thirty feet wide, came
plunging down. The ends of it struck on
the two gallery wings, sending it down
into the parquette. Nothing on the stage
was harmed.
The list at the hospital showed three
dead, five dangerously If not fatally
wounded, and twenty-six more or less Sc
riously injured. In addition to these
large number probably twenty-five or thir-
ty were so slightly injured as to be able
to walk home. OF the dangerously injured
at the hospital, amputation will be neces-
sary in several cases.
A score of surgeons volunteered their
assistance to the hospital corps. sufti-
cient number was accepted.
The scene in front of the hospital door
was a sad one. Hundreds of people gath
cred there clamoring for the names of the
injured.
The dead:
MISS LUCY COHEN.
MRS. GEORGE LEMAN.
MISS LUCH COHEN.
MRS. GEORGE KLEMEN.
An unknown man.
Dangerously injured:
MR.. GOLDMAN. 3
MRS. STUDDER.
MARY STUDDER.
MARY HAAS.
An unknown woman.
Seriously, or slightly injured: Pearl
Hall, Grace Conner c. j. Weiss, Jacob
Weyle Mary Hess, John White, Mary
Howe, Amelia Weyle Ella Moorman,
Della Algier and her three children, Stan
ley, Joseph and John, Daisy Fairhead. S.
E. Lon, S. j. Fairland, r. E. Wiley, Fred
jerks, William Moten, w. ]. McCabe.
Clint Deal, Kate White, Maggie Studer,
Amelia Weyl, Samuel Rosenbaum, Stint
Steele
At the opera house ropes were stretched
across all approaching streets, and the
police had all they could do to keep the
crowd of seven or eight thousand people
from crushing through. The damage to
the theater is comparatively small. To-
nights disaster recalls the one which hap
pened in the same house in 1876, when a
score or more were killed, and many injur-
ed during a panic which ensued from a
needless call of fire.
The cause of the disaster was the rotting
away of the roof trusses.