The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-18
BIG THEATER HORROR
Ceiling Falls at Robinson Opera
House, Cincinnati.
THREE PEOPLE DEAD, MANY HURT.

As soon "a the Accident Occurs the Cry ol
Fire +" Is Raised and Women and Chill.
dren Are Knocked Down and Trampled
Opon-To Add to the Terror the Light,
TO Out Leaving the People Struggling in
Darkness.
Cincinnati, Oct. 1S.-At Q o'clock Fri
day night the dome of Robinson's opera
house fell in on the audience. Sixty
people were more or less injured. Three
were killed outright and one died later
The dead are: Mrs. George Kleeman,
unknown man, Miss Lucy Cohen. Fa-
tally injured; Mary Haas, - Gold
man, 642 Barr street, skull fractured,
Mary Studder, Mrs. Studder, unknown
woman. A large number of others
were injured but none fatally.
The curtain had fallen on the first act
Of Dangers of a Great City" The
theater was packed, every seat in the
house having been sold Suddenly a
tremendous crash came from the cell
ing, fifty feet above. The lights then
went out and screams arose from every
part of the house. The ceiling had
weakened and fallen. carrying with it
everything connected with the dome,
including an enormous chandelier.
Frighful Panic Ensues.
The big timbers and rubbish in fall
ing struck the front of the gallery. car
rying section with it, A frightful pam
ic ensued. Scores of people yelled
"Fire!" while hundreds tainted from
fright. Dust from the rubbish arose
i'm thick Clouds sitting everyone. While
the excitement was at it's height and
men were cursng and women screaming
in their frantic endeavor to escape there
came another crash. 1t was the entire
ceiling, tearing away from the rafters
and tumbling down upon the mass of
struggling humanity.
Captain Conway and salvage corps,
who were first on the scene seized a
half dozen bodies, and. not stopping to
see whether they were dead or alive
galloped off with them to the hospital
AS fast as the patrol wagons arrived
they were filled with limp bodies and
rushed to the hospital. The city hos
pital, where the injured were taken in
patrol wagons, was soon surrounded by
crowds of people. Scores demanded ad-
W lOOh lOT WOunueu IFltnQS,
and the police had great difficulty in
forcing back these frantic people.
Death of Mrs. Kleeman.
The show being played was Dangers
of Great City" The show underlined
for next week was Under the Dome"
Mrs. Kleeman died at the hospital at
10 p. m. She was the daughter-in-law
Of Nick Kleeman. Pearl Hall of S17
Sycamore street, daughter of a car
riage maker in East Ninth street was
badly hurt and taken to the hospital.
Henry Fleck, COZ Broadway, in balcony,
and two children, have not been heard
from. They were not at the hospital.
A daughter of George Otte of the wa
terworks department is at the hospital,
injured.
Samuel Roseblaum, aged 16, of the
Working boys home, in Sycamore
street, was in the gallery. He is at the
hospital, in dangerous condition.
Elder and Father Macke
have arrived at the hospital and are
to the wounded and dying.
A mob of excited people surrounds the
crying for their friends. The
theater was built in 1870. The accident
Is supposed to have been caused by the
constant vibrations produced by an elec-
trio light machine.