Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-13
THE DEAD:
THE INJURED:

s-Aenuctsonhs hTs- cahtueA'
xidmann, Birdie.
THE INJURED:
Adler, Becky, aged 10, legs broken.
Adler, Bella, legs injured.
Becker. Joe. aged 6. body bruised
and internal injuries; taken home.
Becker, Mamie, left arm badly
bruised.
BIoomEarden, Sarah. covered with
Commissions from being stamped
BIoomGarden, Rebecca, ear 1acerated.
Cohen, Mrs. Sarah. internal injuries.
Freedman, Louis, a CONCLUSION of the
brain.
GoIdenberG. Sarah, right cheek cut
and badly bruised.
Hirschebr&, Mrs. Meta. body bruised.
Hoffman. Minnie, injured internally,
may die.
Jacobs, Fannie, confused; eye cut.
jacobson, Meyer. aged 5, injured in
ternally and legs badly bruised.
Zimmerman. Abraham. ankle crush
ed.
Kammerman. Rosie. internal injur-
les.
KoaI. Mrs. Sarah. internally injured.
Rissmnn. Annie, aged 3. injured in
ternaIly.
Rissman, Jessie. aged Is. legs crushed.
Rissnan. Jacob, aged 10, left leg
injured.
EissInan, Mrs. Ida. badly bruised.
THE MISSING.
Frank. MolIie, aged IL.
EIarris, Harry.
Liehtensteiry Annie.
MarGuoIess, Fannie.
Mendelsohn, Samuel, and two chill
dren.
Frank, Reuben.
The play was in Yiddsh and the
audience, for the most part women
and children, were all Hebrews. The
hall stands in the center Of a district
densely Populated by Jews. The play
was nearly over when the cry which
caused the panic was raised and with
faEfve seconds after It rang through
AtAe hall, ne entire audience was con-
Verified into frantic mob. every mem
Der Of which was nslting for the safe
t. which lay beyond the doors of the
building.
The hall is frequently used for
dances and when theatrical perform
ance is given. chairs are set for the
spectators. As soon as the wild rush
towards the doors began. chairs We're
knocked down in every direction. the
aisles disappeared and the excited peo-
pie ran. climbed and stumbled over the
chairs in their way towards the doors.
Around the upper part of the hall
extends a balcony which is open at
one end. Here were seated $50 women
and children. and the women at the
farther end OF the balcony, away from
the stairway, seeing that the rush to-
ward the exit was blocked 10 them and
their children, began at once
To Throw the Little Ones
over the railing to the floor ten feet
be,cw. The children fell into the
midst OF the maddened throng and
were at once trampled under foot II
is known that three of the dead were
children who were thrown from the
balcony and were trampled to the
crowd, with not a chance for their
lives. Following the children. many
of the women sprang from the balcony
upon the crowd below and other swing
ing over hung by their hands before
they dropped. The railing OF the bal
cony was broken through in half
dozen places by the pressure brought
against it by the maddened crowd.
Re. main floor. the crush was
we than in the balcony. The
Nfrom the hall and the only
N 10 a majority OF those
ent the place. are two doors
flth end OF the main auditor
open upon the winding
Is (which eight steps down. unite
il fne broader flight leading to the
door at the Twelfth street front.
the landing where the TWO fights
Fstairs winding down from the main
hall unite, woman stumbled and fell.
In an instant a score Of people were
down, and before the rush was over.
-Four Lives Had Been Crushed out
in space four feet wide by six feet
long.
The furnace in the building is
somewhat detective and at timss allows
sparks to pass up through the registers.
It was the sight OF these sparks rising
into the room that frightened the man
who raised the cry OF fire
The hail has several times been the
scene Of Danics and it Is only a few
months since a number Of children were
hurt in a rush for the doors. which &C.
CURED during juvenile party that was
given n the place
Mrs. Mendelssohn was taken to her
home at 70 Barber street. by friends. and
her death. which, occurred shortly after
the panic. was nPt told 10 the police for
over three hoursI
Her husband AID two children are stiu
missing. and it i1l not known whether they
have been kiiledIor are wandering around