The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-10-23
Mass OF Timbers and Plasterlng
Falls on the Surging,
Frantic Crowd.
THREE KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Sewa ofthe Disaster Quickly Spreads
CAUSING. Much Exci;cmcnt-.-
some Of the Injured
May Die.

great city. The house was fairly filled
u not crowded. a LITTLE before $3.50
O'Clock last night a lady in the audience
says h heard a noise which continued
Tor five minutes before the catastrophe
came. She gave ii little attention,
thinking it was a part OF the perform
ance. Presently the plastering began
to fall, in small particles at first. but
enough to alarm some of the tirlid or
cautious, who retired. A little later
the plastering began to shower down
in great chunks. 1t came from the
ceiling above. which supported the
domes There was a rush from the GAL
lery, which was not very well filled.
The balcony was oon emptied. Those
in the dress circle retired as promptly
as possible and, strange to say, with
out an apparent panic. The crowding
OF these to the door INSTRUCTED the
passage of people from the parquet.
which accounts in a measure for the
number of casualties. Nobody expect
ed at that moment any other danger
than from the falling plastering. Sud
denly and with a great crash, the
great central truss of the ceiling, eighty
feet long and thirty feet wide, am
plunging down. The ends of it struck
on the VIZ gallery wings and doubled
it up in the center, sending it down into
the parquet with a great scattarment of
joists and timbers. Nothing on the
stage was harmed. or course there were
oar of the injured, and, as often hap
pens, from those least hurt.
All Excitement.
The news spread rapidly. There was
d rush CT patrol wagons and of fire
men to the scene. The salvage corps.
with its wagon, vas first on the ground
and it was followed by all Ink police
patrol wagons, carrying the injured to
the Cincinnati hospital. Tn list at the
hospital showed three dead, five dan
gerously if not fatally wounded. and
twenty-six more or less seriously in
jured. In addition to these, a large
number, probably twenty-five or thir-
ty, We're so slightly injured as TO be able
to walk home.
OF the dangerously injured at the
hospital, several will require amputa-
tons, yet every one is refusing to sub
nit to operations.
A score of surgeons volunteered their
assistance to the hospital corps. A
Iuftic!ent number was accepted.
Scene ut the Hospital.
The scene in front of the hospital
pie gathered there clamoring for the
names of the injured. An attendant
stood at the door with a list of those
brought in M answered these anxious
inquiries. Many names Were inquired
for that We're not on the hospital list.
The Morbid Curious.
At the opera house ropes We're
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.
All sorts of wild rumors We're anoat and
public curiosity was on tlptoe, all the
more ardent because of these rumors
There was a story atioat that n man
was missing. 1t was a wild story, for
he could net be in the opera house.
where the debris was so scattered that
It did not form a piled Up mass any
where. Anyone standing at the door of
the hospital in front of the pitiful, sor-
rowful anxiously inquisitive crowd,
could understand how not one man.
but many men, women and children
were missed by friends at home. The
at all to the stage, comparatively little
to the gallery, which suffered most, al
most nothing to the dress circle, and
much legs than one would think from
the debris scattered around through the
parquet. where the main truss landed.
The truss rested in the parquet very
much in the shape of a capital letter v.
The wonder is hat SO few We're hurt
and of the few hurt that SO many es-
| capped with SO slight injuries.
The Dcad and Injured.
The dead are:
Unknown man.
Miss Lucy Cohen.
Mrs. George Kleeman.
Dangerously injured:
Mr.. Goldman.
Mrs. Stodder.
Mary Stodder.
Mary Haas.
One unknown
Seriously or slightly injured:
Pearl Hall.
Grace Conner.
c.. j. Weiss.
Jacob Weyle.
Mary Hess.
John White.
Amelia Weyle.
Mary Howe.
Ella Morgan.
Della Aglier and her three Children
stanley. Joseph and John.
Daisy Fairhead.
s. r. Long.
s.. j. Falkland.
T. E. Wiley.
Frederick jerks.
William Moten.
w. j. McCabe.
Clinton Deal.
Kate White.
Maggie Stodder.
Amelia Weyle.
Samuel Rhsehanh