The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-16
DOME OF THElIBi
Three Were KILLED.
I Fatally lsisi
THERE WAS NO vEay
Else the I.oss q ~.
Been Very 0r.aa
Disaster 49,

Unknown man, ~
dangerously injured,
Mary Studder, NJ
Unknown man.
IS Seriously ( RI or slightly ~,
G.. X. Weiss, S
Mary Hess, ~
amelia Weyle, T
Ella Norman. 6s.s M
Stanley Algier. ~
Daisy Fairhead. JSSst
8. II. Long, S
T. e. Wiley, -
VIM. Mo,en,
Clint Deal, IT,
Maggie Studder, 49,
Clint Steel, s.rss
Cincinnati. Ohio. octcbes I
gers Of a Great City, a. ~ z
Robinson opera houvs trs,.s.
short in its performance Is \
ization Of the actual dr.. j.!
city.
The house was fairly f!llsa I
fore $50 was heard I se.:.
which continued for Ten ssl.s.'
the catastrophe; little sttenH-
1t. every one thinking 4 ~ :
formance. Presently the p,sss,
to fall, In small particles 4
enough to alarm some Of ~ ~
tious. who retired. A little IA.
tering began to shower AZ,
chunks. 1t came from the esps
which supported the dome N,
rush from the gallery, which n,
filled. Tho balcony was ~
Those in the dress circle tetIn,
as possible and. strange to ~ ~
apparent panic. The crowdinf 1
the door INSTRUCTED the paasf +
from the parquette. which str,1
measure for the number Of t1snn
body expected at that moment
danger than from the falling i
Suddenly and with a great 3
great central truss Of tbs cel7n
feet long and thirty fees "
plunging down. The ends Il N I
the two gallery wings and detH
in the center, sending It dom
parquette with a great scailxI
joists and timbers. Nothing d 4
was harmed.
There were means from ths u
often happens, loudest from ~
hurt. The news spread sapIdly =
was a rush Of patrol wagons and =
to the scene. The salvage corp !
wagon was first on the gruuul
was followed by all the pclh
wagons, who carried the intura |
Cincinnati hospital. Those TX !
hospitals showed three dead, I'm
ously. II not fatally. woundod, andt
six more or less seriously tn3ud
ditton to these a large nunbet-i
twenty or thirty-were % sligatT
as to be able to walk home. *
gerously wounded at the hoepl2N
Will require amputation, vt svsu
refusing to submit ITO the open
score of surgeons volunteerN
Astance to the hospital ccFpe
The scene in front Of ths ~
was a sad one. Hundreds q pss|
there clamorlng for the Names
jured. An attendant stood y N
with a list of the names Of thoss
to the hospital and answered -
lous inquiries. Many names wefs
for that were not In the hospets j.
AT the opera house. polics vsst
ed across all approaches and naa
could do to keep the crowd mn
through. All sorts OF Wild ruu
affoat. and public curiosity ~
all the more ardentl becsuse =
rumors. d
Tho damage to the structue Il
paratively light. Tho truss re-
parquette very much in ~ ~
capital v. The wonder = ~
were hurt and Of the few nH
many escaped with slight h)on \
Tonight's disaster recalls
one which took place In tne =
ing in February. 1876. TonisaI
a real cause for panic and ~
then there was no cause wfaisss
the wickedly foolish cry Of mn
when a little sp,ltterins ~ =
the Calcium light In the W.
The house was packed. mosW
men and children. to witness Y u
Of America" given by h'indse0 :
children. With the single 9! VI
such an assembly the misonN
--nA8
Plunging into the aisles and ru'', 4
the .stairways and toward ths "
way leading to the street. -
blockade of human bodies ccoa',
the wild, savage struggle ion 4,
those behind completed the ar I,
chief. Only when all outvsN Z, 9,
was absolutely blockaded ~
given to the living to use ~
discover that there was %
cause for alarm. did tne 81,
cease. Then followed the SCI 4.
of the score or more OF deaa n
who were injured. .,
Tonight's catastrophe. hove ~,
cause for panic. and II the ~
been the same as those q s,tl,
the result would have been +.
calculation. ~
The cause Of the accident v 4,
to the wood trusses. wS
away from their fastenings' !, I
A singular coincidence = s,iti
announced for next week y
der the Dome" 4
An As.ign'neat. Z /
Hillsboro, Texas. october y