Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-10-23
DOME OF THEATRE
COLLApSES AT CINCINNATI
Mass Of Timbers and Plasterlng
Falls on the Surging,
Frantic Crowd.
THREE KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Ne w- of the Disa ster Quickly sprenos
Causing Much Excitement---
Some % uc Injured
MI, Die. :

q 6feat l1Iy Oh inc StaG'
sons opera house last night was cut
short in its performance by a tragic
realization Of the actual dangers OF q
great city. The house was fairly niled
but not crowded. A little before GOV
o'clock last night a lady in the aualShce
says she heard a noise which continued
for five minutes before the catastrophe
,ame. She gave 1t little attention,
linking il was a part OF the perform
ance. Presently the plastering began
TO fall, in small particles at hrst, put
enough II alarm sorae OF the tnso or
cautious, who retired. a little later
the plastering began to shower down
i'm great chunks. IT came from ire
ceiling above. which supported the
dome. There was a rush from the GAL
Iery. which was not very wen filled.
The balcony was soon emptied. Those
i'm the dress circle retired as promptly
as possible and. strange to say. with
out an apparent panic. The crowding
of these to the door o~bstructed the
passage of people from the parquet.
which In a measure for the
number Of casualties. Nobody expect
ed at hat moment any other LANCER
imam IIOil lHt ldlliliS
denly and with a great crash. the
great central truss OF the ceiling, eighty
feet long and thirty feet wide, came
~plunglng down. The ends OF 1t struck
on the two gallery wings and doubled
It up in the center, sending IL down into
the parquet with a great seatterment or
toists and timbers. Nothing on the
stag was harmed. OF course there were
means of the injured. and, as often hap
pens, from those least hurt.
All Excitement.
The news spread rapidly. There was
a rush of patrol wagons and OF fire
men To the scene. The salvage corps.
with lts wagon. was first on the ground
and 1t was followed by all the police
patrol wagons. carrying the injured to
the Cincinnati hospital. The 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 70 these, a large
number. probably twenty-five or thir-
ty, were so slightly injured as 70 be able
to walk home.
or 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
sufficient number was accepted.
scene at the Hospital.
The scene in front OF the hospital
door was a sad one. Hundreds OF peo-
pie gathered there clamoring for the
names Of the injured. An attendant
stood at the door with A list of those
brought in and answered these anxious
inquiries. Many names were inquired
for that were not on the hospital list.
The Morbid Curious.
At the opera house ropes were
stretched across all approaching streets
and the police had all they could do
10 keep the crowd OF seven or eight
thousand people from crushlng hire n,hrrqqlgh
pubic curiosity was on t!ptoe, all the
more ardent because of these JUNIORS.
There was a story aloat tina n man
was missing. IT was a wild story. for
he could not be in the opera house,
where the debris was so scattered that
1t did not form a piled up mass any
where. Anyone standing ar the door of
~ AA1AAN "a AAiC BtAlAul. SDI-
rowful anxiously inquisltive crowd.
could understand how not one man.
but many men, women and children
were missed by friends at home. The
damage to the structure was nothing
at all to the stage, comparatively little
to the gallery. which suffered most, al
most nothing to the dress circle. ana
much LEGS tina one would think from
the debris scattered around through the
parauet, where the main truss landed
The truss rested In the parquet very
much in the shape of a capital letter V.
The wonder Is that so few were hurt
and of the few hurt that so many es-
capped with so slight injuries.
The Dead 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.
G. 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. f. Long.
3. j. Falkland.
T. f. Wiley.