The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-12
nineteen INJURED
Net Result of the Entertainment
at 1Ol Ranch.
Grandstand Holding 600 PeO-
pie Collapsed.
CROWD STAMPEDED.
When Wild Steers Broke Loose
From Cowboys.
Twenty-Five BuffalOes Get Piled
Up in a Heap.
CROWD STAMPEDED.

Bliss, 0. T., June IA series of un-
looked for events at Miller Brothers
''1O1'' ranch entertainment before the
National Editorial Association made
that Wild West show the most thrilling.
spectacular and largest attended of it's
kind ever Witnessed The estimated at
tendance was from so 600 to 10000. on
two different occasions while the spec
tators were appIauding acts, especially
pleasing, long sections OF the grand
stand gave way. injuring 10 persons,
some of them seriously.
The Injured.
Daniel c. Christensen, Whiterock;
left leg and arm broken.
Mrs. Mary DreseI, Redrock; ankle
broken and left side paralyzed
Charles Dresel, Redrock; ankle bro
ken.
NIaude Dresel, aged 6; bruised.
Mrs. S. P. Galloway, Carmen; leg bro
ken and side hurt; condition serious.
Mrs. W. H. Murray, Whiterock; foot
crushed.
crushed
Mrs. Miles Smith Newkirk; ankle
and arm crusheds Sadie Smith, New
kirk, aged 8; ankle crushed
DR.. A. J. Smith, Colony, kan; foot
crushed.
Mrs. Gerber, Bliss, knee disIocated.
Mrs. V. S. Van Horn, Newkirk; foot
". ]. Fellows. Cleveland; hand
crushed and hip wrenched.
Mrs. George S. Stephens, Stroud; aged
50; leg broken and foot crushed.
o. L. Smith. Emporia, Kan; chest
crushed.
Sophia Love. TonKawa; foot crushed.
Mrs. W. T. James. Whiterock.
Mrs. c. z. Hawks Cherokee.
Mrs. A. G. Heskett, Ponca City.
Steers Broke Into Crowd.
Twenty-Five head of Bufaloes, in max
ing a charge into the arena, nearly
broke into the crowd. -Four times wild
steers broke loose among the spectators,
who had forced themselves into the
arena. after the grandstand gave way
and the chase OF the cowboys among the
people and the scramble of the people to
get out of the way were thrilling. The
crowd was many times larger than any
ever assembled in Oklahoma before.
While the estimates vary, it Is be-
Heved the persons who saw the event
numbered about so, COO.
Joe Miller said the attendance would
run over So 600. Twenty-fouE excursion
trains were run into Bliss. On one of
these trains here were 1900 persons.
The amphitheater was mile and quar-
ter long and the twenty -five-foot enclos-
ure in front of it failed by far to accom-
mOdate the visitors. The grandstand had
a seating capacity of 10000, and was
Overcrowded. People unable to find
standing room forced themselves into
the arena. Soldiers and deputy sheriffs
were pOwerless.
The Buffalo Chase.
The second number of the programme
was the buffalo chase. Three of the lar
gest animals and a buffalo calf were
turned loose and chased once around
the arena by Indians. Then a herd of
twenty-five We're turned into the mar
row chutes, leading from the pen into
the arena. The herd made a charge
with surprising force and with such
rapidity that the gateman was unable
to release the gate.
Twenty-Five buffalo piled upon each
other in front of the stand occupied by
the invited guests of Miller Bros, and
the press For two minutes there was
a struggling mass of buffalo. The air
was filed with the hair torn from the
bodies of the frightened animals.
The buffaloes were piled high on top
of each other, and the wonder is they
did not jump over the chute and into
the crowd. Colonel Zach Mulhall final
ly rode up to the gate, and with great
effort sprung the latch