The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-10-17
A FEARFUL ACCIDENT.
The Dome Of an Opera House at
Cincinnati Gives Away.
FALLS INTO THE PARQUETTE
Three Persons Are Killed. Five Are Dang.
srousiy Wounded, Twsnty-slr SER
ieusiy Inlursd SD About Thir-
~ More OF Less Hurl

NiHtiAHali Ocl ~ Inc Danfer OF
a Grea, City" on the stage Of Robin.
sons opera house last night was cut
short In its performance by a tragic
realization Of the actual dangers Of a
great city.
The house was fairly well allcd. A
little before $50 a lady In the audi
cnce says Ehe heard a creeping noise
which continued Tor five minutes before
the catastrophe She gave It l,ile at
tention, thinking Il was a part Of the
performance. Presently the plasiering
began TO fall In small particles at fire.,
but enough 10 alarm some Of the tlmld
or cautious. who retired. a htle later
he plasterlng began 20 shower down In
great chunks
Il came from the ceiling above
which supported the dome There was
q rush from the gallery. which was no.
well dlcd The balcony was soon
empilod Those Ia the drss circle re-
tired as promptly as possible. and
strange 10 say. without an apparent
panic The crowding Of these to tho
door obstruciod the passage Of people
fE0m the parQueite. which accounts In
measure for the number of casual
ties Nobody expected at that moment
any other danger than from ,se falling
p.a8terlng Suddenly and with great
crash the great central truss Of the
ceiling SO feet long and 80 feet wide.
came plunglng down. The ends of u
struck on the two galleries wings and
doubled Il up IN the center. sending u
down into the parquette with a great
scattorment Of iolsts and timbers
Nothing on the stage was harmed. OF
course here were means from the In
iurcd and a. often happens. loudes.
from those hurt The news spread
rapidly. and there was a ruah of patrol
wagons and officers went 10 the scene
The salvage corps with 90 wagon. wai
FIRST on the ground. and Il was fol-
lowed by an the police patrol wagons.
who carried the Injured 10 the Cincln-
natl hospital The li1t OF hospitals
showed three dead. Eve dangerously u
not fatally wounded and % more or
less seriously injured. In addition TO
these. a large number. probably 70 or
20. we're 30 slightly lniurod a. 10 be
able to walk home OF the dangerously
wounded AZ the hospital. several Will
require amputatlon. yet every one Is
refusing TO submit 10 the opera ion. A
score of surgeons volunteered their as
slstnnce 20 the hospital corp1.
The dead are:
Miss Lucy Cohen
Mrs. George Kleeman.
An unknown man.
Dangerously injured are. Mr. Cold
man. Mrs. Studder Mary Studder.
Mary Hams and an unknown woman.
The scene In front Of the hospital
I door was a sad one. Hundreds of peo-
pie gathered there clamoring for the
names u the injured. An attendant
stood at the door with a list Of those
Z brought to the hospital and answered
{ these anxious inquiries. Many names
were inquired for that were not In the
/ hospital list.
Al the opera house police were
stretched across all approaches aud
had an they could DO to keep the crowd
/ from crushing through. All sorts Of
I Wild rumors were aiuat and public
curiosity was on tip toe all the more
nrdently because Of these rumOrs.
The damage to the structure was
I comnarativcly slight The truss rest
[ "a ln the parquettc very much In the
shape of the capital letter W The
wonder "a that 30 few were hurt. and
OF the few hurt that 20 many escaped
with slight injuries.
This disaster recalls foTclbiy a more
fearful one which took place In the
same building In February iS76, when
a score or more u persons los, their
lives. last night there was a real
cause Tor the panic and loss ~ lie,
then there was no cause whatever ex-
cent the wlckedly foolish cry ~ are
started when a little squirting hiss
came from the calcium light In the
upper gallery.
Last nights catastrophe h weNer
had real cause for a panic, and u the
conditions last night had been the sam
a. those oi the 1879 horro. the result
would have been fearful beyond cal
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