The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-04-21
TERRIBLE RESULTS
OF TAEATER PANIC
Five Newspoys Are Crushed 70
Death and Scores Sadly
Wounded.
CRY OF "FlRE"
Hundreds of the Lads Mare Stous.
Cling to Get Free Tickets tor
Play When Someone Gave
a False Aiarn,.

indianapolis. April 19.-Frenzied h. N
false alarm OF fire several lmndlea
age neMsboys struggling to Obtain
their share of free tickets to n loca! the
ater. which were being distributed Nv
Al travelling representative of II patent
medicine company. Stampedeu in Il nsf-
row stairway in the Masonic telllple
last night, crushing the life OF OF I've
boys. and it is believed. fatally inju,-
ing several others.
The dead:
ED MoRRIsSEY, aged Il.
LOUIS SCHElGEIaT. aged 10.
CARL LAUREL. aged 1@.
HOMER WILLIAMSON, aged II.
FLOYD POLAND. aged 8
Partial list of injured
Stanley Mclaeady. aged e.
Lester Cole, aged 10, serious.
Verne Smith, aged II.
Herbert Bissell, aged Il.
Talmadge Walters, aged .. back bail-
ly injured.
Fred Walters, aged 10. arm broken.
Roy Underwood, aged Il.
Guy James, probably serious.
Edward Holloran.
Edward Nancy. head badly injured.
Roy W~ashburn. badly bruised ard
rut.
"harles Thurstop.
Jesse overstrect.
Ernest Ryan.
Ivan Blode.
Harry Bennett.
Harry Jonacher.
Wilbur Bursett.
Fred Bester.
Louis Clark.
- Middaugh.
Charles Moss.
Eddie Daniel
Carl Ernest.
Joe Wilhelm.
Oscar Sattinger. seriously Injured in
ttrnally.
Fred Groves.
Charles taSer.
Herman Knapp.
Unidentified boy at city hospital.
about Is. brown eyes; unconscious. IN
jured internally; will probably die.
Some One Shouted Fire.
Long before the time appointed for
the distribution of the tickets the stains
of the Masonic temple. at the south
west corner of Washington street and
Capitol avenue. were crowded with ~
pushing, yelling crowd of newsboNs,
each anxious to be first to receive his
When the distribution began tie
became more intense. ard
the efforts of several policemen who
had been detailed to prevent trouble
We're unavailing. 1t is alleged by "a
witness that one OF the boys. In tie
endeavor To hasten the exit of thos.
who had received their passes, shouted
Fire"
Immediately those at the top faced
about, and with almost s~uperhuInan
strength began to force their way To
the bottom of the stairs. Shrieks ard
encounters followed for y
seconds, when for some cause
on the struggling at the bot
Immediately police from the
central station, who responded to q
riot call, began the work OF rescue.
of the boys We're dead when ex-
tricated from their position at the bot
been fatally crushed We're take
out as fast as they could be olsen
from their frenzied
ions, who fought II chung to eaot
other in desperation.
Great Crowds Gather.
The Immense crowd of people from
the business district, attracted by wild
lumors, iostled about at the bottom
of the stairs and hampered the work
of the police and ambulance corps.
The dead We're hurriedly placed in
ambulances and sent to the morgue
for identification. The fatally injured
were sent to the city hospital and the
city dispensary, while many who re-
ceived only slight injuries were made
in carriages md sent tc
their homes.
The Mystic Tie Masons lodge was
meeting in the chambers in the build
ing when the panic occurred, and.many
the boys We're rescued by lodge
members.
Was Horrible Night.
Mothers, fathers and relatives OF he
boys tlocked to the place. and. frantic
with grief. they forced their way into
the dense crowd. With the aid of at
least fifty policemen, doctors lodge
II other rescuers it required
fully three-quarters of an hour to re-
the lads to the c~onveyances
which carried them to their homes O..
TO h hospitals. Relatives who did
not reach the hall before the boys We're
away swarmed to the different
hospitals and ~dispensaries, and men
had to be stationed at these institutions
to keep the crowd from breaking into
the rooms where the lads were being
cared for.
After the injured had been taken
from the scene Of death and the crowd
had left the sidewalk the sight pre-
scented in front Of the door and in the
upper hallway was grewsome In the
extreme. Blood trickled down the
Fragments of clothing and flesh
vert strewn here and there.
The accident evidently had little ef-
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