The age-herald., 1901-01-13
Women Jumped from Balcony on
 Heads of Those Below
HELPLESS CHILDREN CRUSHED
The Play Was in Yiddish and the Chi caGo House Was Packed With Hebrews-PoIice and Fire
 men Came Too Late.

cusly injured Tn panic which followed late this evening in Twelfth street Turner hall About SOC were in the place to witness the performance of play entitled, ''The Green horn"
 The dead are:
 Rebecca Lindsey.
 Annie Goldberg, aged 2.
 Regina Millenbach, aged 4
 Anna Solomon, aged 37.
 George Shaffer, aged g.
 Mrs. Samuel Mendelsohn.
 Birdie Xidmann.
 The injured:
 Becky Adler, aged 16, legs broken.
 Bella Adler, legs injured.
 Joe Becker aged G. body bruised and in- ternal injuries
 Becker, Mamie, left arm bruised.
 Bloomgarden Sarah, covered with contu- sions from being stamped upon.
 Bloomgarden, Rebecca, ear lacerated. Cohen, Mrs. Sarah, internal injuries Freedman, Louisa, confusion of the brain. Goldberg, Sarah, right cheek cut and badly bruised.
 Hirshberg, Mrs Netta, body bruised. Hoffman, Minnie injured internally, may die.
 Jacobs, Fannie, eye cut.
 Jacobson, Meyer. injured internally and legs badly bruised.
 Kammerman, Abraham ankle crushed. Kammerman, Rosie, internal injuries. Koal Mrs. Sarah, internally injured. Molle Mollie, body bruised.
 Richter, Mrs. Rebecca, legs broken. Rissman, Annie, aged 8, injured internally. Rissman, Bessie, aged G. legs crushed Rissman, Jacob, aged 1O left leg injured. Rissman, Mrs. Ida, badly bruised. Missing
 Frank, Mollie. aged A.
 Harris, Harry. Lichtenstein, Annie.
 Marquoless, Fannie. z Mendelsohn, Samuel, and two children Frank, Rueben.
 Samuel Mendelsohn and two children. The play was in Yiddish and the audience  children were all Hebrews The hall stands in the center of a district densely popu- lated by Hebrews. The play was nearly over when the cry which caused the panic was raised and in few seconds the audi ence was a frantic mob. Chairs were knocked in every direction the aisles dis appeared and the excited people ran, climb ed and stumbled over the chairs in their way toward the doors.
 Around the upper part of the hall, extends balcony which is open only at one end. Here were seated 150 women and children and the woman at the farther end of the balcony. away from the stairway seeing the rush toward the exit was blocked to them and their children began at once to throw light ones over the railing to the floor ten feetsbelow The children were trampled un- der foot and it is known that of the dead three children were thrown from the bal cony and trampled by the crowd.
 Many women who sprang from the bal cony upon the crowd below and others swinging over, hung by their hands before they dropped, and the railing of the bal cony was broken through in half dozen places.
 On the main floor the crush was much worse than in the balcony. The main exits from the hall and the only ones known to a majority of those who frequent the place are two doors in the south end of the main auditorium that open upon winding stairs which, eight steps down, unite into one broader flight leading to the main door at Hhe Twelfth street front. Around these doors men, women and children struggled to force their way down the stairs At the landing where the two flights of stairs winding down from the main hall unite, a woman stumbled and fell.
 In an instant score of people were down and before the rush was over four lives had been crushed out.
 Within five minutes after the beginning of the panic it was all over and the police and fremen who came hurrying to the