The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16

hungry for a shock. here was some very
great shock which was passing quite over
their heads. Minutes went past No
body seemed to know. Then there was
strange, involuntary movement toward the
scene Of the explosion was carried along
with It, The movement increased TO a
push-was checked. thrown back, then
sureed on again Little by little l found
myself working up toward the very spot
whore the accident had taken place.
And then came the scene which has
shocked me inexpresslbly, saw this de-
cent crowd which a little while ago had
seemed so careless begin 20 fight desper-
ately as often as the forward movement
was checked by the masses ahead. The
word went around that "A lot OF people had
been killed Where, where are they? peo-
pie eagerly asked. And they fought and
crowded on, merely on the chance OF seeing
those mansied men and women!
The fierce splendor Of the explosion IT.
self seemed to have escaped their notice;
yet there were hundreds struggling, fight
Ing. striking one another, undergoing the
danger Of being trampled to death them
selves, turning themselves into wild ami
mails. for the mere chance of being able to
behold few torn and bleeding human
bodlesl
Il confess to feeling Of grief and humi.
iation at the scene. saw no injured hui
man being myself except those who had
gained cuts and bruises In this mad struggle
to see persons who had been killed and
wounded AS soon as l could get out of
the crowd | took my way to the quietest
side street could And, and thence sought
my home, There was no quiet street, of
course The carnival was going on. Horns
were blown in my face and ears. Shouts
and jeers Allied the air, Here and there l
caught sight of some one who had heard
Of the disaster and wns desperately hasten.
ing on in the hope OF getting peep ut its
scenes
1T seemed TO me as went on that there
must be something wrong with your New
Workers. Must It not be true that a special
liking to be shocked to be horrlhed, has
been cultivated among them by that section
OF your press which welcomes nothing 50
warmly to It's columns as a tale OF horror
The appetite for this sort Of thing certainly
grows by what It feeds on-and Il is fed
lncessantly. You worship efficiency here
and there never was a press so efficient
In impartlng shocks as your yellow press
should have expected a precisely SINH
lar scene among certain Old World crowds
But they would not have been crowds Of
welldressed and undoubtedly reading PEG
Pile, such as that in which l had stood oil
Madison square. They would have beer
Of the lowest grade OF people who bred the
petroleuses OF the Commune.
THAT night has sadly discouraged me.
My friend perhaps has ONE reason 10 b,
discouraged. We are all all apt TO be wher
we meet Demos face to face anywhere
Yet believe my friend is absolutely
wrong when he assumes that the appetit,
for horrors is any keeuer here than II Il
; In the Old World or anywhere else d,
, not believe It is quite so keen as II is IL
, Europe. The election night mob IS
! strange and depressing mob, but this for
eign moralist has forgotten that our mobl
can AFFORD 10 dress well where foreign mob,
! cannot, and that thousands OF men of de
cent appearance who took part In that car
, nival had, beyond all doubt, participated
in European routs and brushes, seeking I,
feed and safe their appetite for horrors
verltable Jean vaIeans. sanscuottes, rat
terdemalions, there. ]. e. {.