The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-01-07
EXPLOSION FOLLOWED THE FIRE,
Scores Of Persons Discovered In the
AisIes With Their Faces Com
pletely Trampled OF.
The Corpses Hauled Away From the Play
House Piled on Wagons Like
Cords Of Wood,
Some Of the Audience Were suhocated
Ey Escaping Gas While Sitting in
Their seats--Hundreds lnjur.
ed; Scores Will Die.

ed; Scores viii Die.
Chicago, Dec. 31.-Hundreds of peO.
pie were killed in ten minutes Wed.
nesday afternoon during a fire in the
1roouois theater, the newest, the larg.
est. and as far as human power could
make it, the safest theater in Chicago
A few of these people were burned
TO death by fire, many were srfocated
by gas, and scores were trlmp.ed to
death in the panic that followed the
mad plunge of the frightened audi.
ence for the exits.
There were bodies lying by the dozens
Wednesday night in the undertaking
rooms, in the police stations, and in
the hospitals from which nearly every.
thing that could reveal their identity
TO those who knew them best is gone
Their clothing Is torn to RAGS or burn.
ed to cinders and their faces have
been trampled into an unrecognizahle
pulp by the heels Of the crowd that
trampled tdem down as they fed Tor
safety.
THE fire broke out during the second
~ va ''e P'"' vi
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ESCAPED to the street in safety rearly
all Of them, however. being compelled
10 nee iito the snowy streets win 10
clothing but their stage costumes a
few members of the company sustain.
ed minor injuries but none were seri.
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