The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-22
CRUSH AT DOWIE MEETING.
MANY PEOPLE NARROWLY
 ESCAPE DEATH.
Twenty Thousand Thrown Into Wild Confusion When Doors Are Locked and Admission Denied Grace George, a she Actress, swept on Her Feet-w. A. Brady, Her Husband, and . Broker Arrested.
Arrested.

New York, Oct. 21-Many people narrowly escaped death in front of Madison Square Garden tonight while vainly endeavoring to get into the Dowie meeting. After 10000 persons had been admitted the doors were closed. leaving, the police say, 10000 outside. When it was found that the doors had been shut the widest disor- der prevailed, and the police, 400 strong, were for time utterly unable to cope with the mad rush of the crowd. Men and women were knocked down and trampled on, and, despite the fact that the police reserves were called out, it was not until the meeting had been suddenly terminated by Dowie shortly after 9 o'clock that anything could be done with the crowd
 In the surging of the throng Grace George, the actress, who was on her way to a theater where she is playing,
 was swept off her feet and trampled on, and had her clothing badly torn. She accused the police of handling her roughly. Mrs. William J. Buckley, of Newark. N. J., was caught in the crush and fell fainting to the street She was badly bruised. Inspector Walsh was near the woman when she fell, and with the aid of fifteen policemen he rescued and carried her to safety. Will liam A Brady, theatrical manager and husband of Grace George; Lorenzo Winter, broker, and Charming Pol lock, a playwright, were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct.
 The crowd blocked all traffic in Madi- son avenue, Twenty-sixth and Twenty seventh streets for more than an hour. and could not be dispersed until con-. |vinced that the meeting inside the gar- den had ended
 Within the great hall the scene was comparatively tame. There were slight demonstrations from thousand Co.,
 lumbia students, and one of the stu- dents and another man in a gallery were arrested for disturbing religious meeting.
 Theneeforward things were compara- lively quiet until the audience had been dismissed, when a man engaged in a |fisticuff with two Zion guards because, as he declared, they had showed his wife roughly.
 DoWie spoke only fifteen minutes, He announced his subject as Divine Heal ing,n but when the meeting was closed to terminate the disturbance outside the doors he had got no further than de-
 scription of the Illinois Zion and a lau- dation of it's founder
 Just to show that am in favor with the Christian merchant princes Of this city, said MT. Dowie, II will announce the money which has come to me this morning alone. These sums are from men all unknown to me, but who evil dertly believe am right. One sends Ime check for s5.00, another a check for $1,O00 another for $1,500 and anotIl- Ter gave me $2O0. These contributions were unsolicited. They were accompa- nied by the kindest words"
 For the first time Dowie to-day or
 dered reporters excluded, and those who were seated at the reporters table were escorted to the door-at Dowie's orders to his guards to "clear the vipers out of here. Be careful how you handle them, not to get any of their filth on you. Now, get out, you mean dogs, you yellow scoundrels of the press. We will have no more of you in here. I
 am paying for this place, you liars.
 This is my building. Hurry up, guards. The sight of them disgusts me. Don't waste any restoration talk on the liars. It is useless They have sold their souls to the devil. I never hope to con vert a reporter. They would be back isliders.''