Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-01-17
SEVEN WERE KILLED.
Terrible Catastrophe Followed False
Fire Alarm.
AUDIENCE COMPOSED OF HEBREWS
The Widest Excitement and Mad
Rush for Safety when Han Cried
Fire

Chicago, Special.-Six people were
crushed to death and as many more
seriously injured in panic which fol-
lowed mans cry of fire" Saturday
afternoon in West Twelfth street, Tur-
ner hail. About 500 people were in the
place. gathered to witness the porfor-
nance Of a play entitled THE Green
Hon" The following were killed and
injured:
THE DEAD.
George Sbaffer. aged 9 years.
Mrs. Annie Solomon.
Mrs Samuel MendaIssohn
Annie Goldberg, aged I years.
Regina MeIIenbach, aged years.
Rebecca Lidsley.
Birdie Nidann.
Twenty persons are reported in
jured, several very seriously.
Six persons are missing.
MISSING.
Samuel MendelssOhn and two chill
dren
The play was in Yiddi>h and audi
ence, comprising for the most part Wo-
>.
The hall stands in the center of a dis
trict densely populated by Jews The
play was nearly over when the CIV
which caused the panic was raised and
within five seconds after it rang out
through the hall the entire audience
was converted into a frantic mob, ev-
cry member Of which was fighting for
the safety which lay beyond the doors
Of the building.
The hall is frequently used for dances
and when theatrical perfos nance is
given chairs are plced for the specta-
tors. AS soon as the wild rush toward
the doors began, chairs were knocked
DOWN IN every direction, the aisles
disappeared and the excited people ran
climbed and stumbled over the chairs
IN their way toward the doors
Around the upper part of the hall ex-
tended balcony which is open only a.
one end. Here were seated $50 women
and children and the women at the
forther end Of the balcony, away from
the stairway. seeing that the rush to-
ward the exit was blocked to them and
their children, began at once TO throw
the little ones over the railing to the
floor ten feet below. The children fell
into the midst Of the maddened throng
and were at once trampled under their
feet. 1t is known that three of the
dead were children who were thrown
from the balcony and were trampled by
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 others,
swinging over, hung by their hands be
fore they dropped. The railing of the
balcony was broken through in half 2
dozen places by the pressure brought
against it by the maddened crowd.
On the main floor the crush was
much worse than in the balcony.
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