The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-04-20
TERRIBLE RESULTS
OF TREATER PANIC
Five Newsboys Are Crushedto
Death and Scores Badly
Wounded.
FATAL CRY OF aFIREs
Hundreds of the Lads Were strus.
Cling to Get Free Tickets for
Play When Someone Gave
a False Alarm.

indianapolis, April 19.-Frenziea bya M
false alarm of fire several hundred ~
eager neWSboyS struggling to obtain b
their share of free tickets to u local the. II
ater, which We're being distributed BY q
u travelling representative Of q patent b
medicine. company Stan1peded in a naf-44 q Z
Tow stairway iii the Masonie@teHif,a. 4 &
last night, crushing the life out of five. )
boys, and it is believed, fatally injur, 3
ing several others.
The dead:
ED MORRISSEY, aged II.
LOUIS SCHEIGERT, aged Is.
CARL LAUREL, aged 13.
HOMER WILLIAMSON. aged IL.
FLOYD POLAND, aged 8.
Partial list of injured:
Stanley McReady, aged 5.
Lester Cole, aged 13, serious.
Verne Smith, aged u.
Herbert BiSSell, aged IA.
Talmadgc Walters, aged 9, back bad
ly injured.
Fred Walters, aged 10, arm broken.
Roy Underwood, aged 10.
Guy James, probably serious.
Edward Holloran.
Edward Nancy, e badly injured.
Roy Washburn, badly bruised and
cut.
Charles Thurston.
Jesse Overstreet.
Ernest Ryan.
Iva Blode.
Harry Bennett.
Harry J~onacher.
Wilbur Bursett.
Fred BeSter.
Louis Clark.
Middaugh.
Charles Moss.
Eddie Daniel.
Carl Ernest.
Joe Wilhelm.
Oscar S%attinger, seriously injured in
%ternally.
Fred Groves.
Charles CaSer.
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 stairs
of he Masonic temple, at the south
west corner of Washington street and
Capitol avenue, We're crowded with q
pushing, yelling crowd of newsboys,
each anxious to be first to receive his
pass. When the distribution began the
excitement became more intense, and
the efforts of several policemen who
had been detailed to prevent trouble
were unavailing. 1t is alleged by a
witness that one of the boys, in the
endeavor TO hasten the exit Of those
who had received their passes, shouted
.'Fire!"
Immediately those at the top faced
about, and With almost superhuInan
strength began to force their way to
the bottom of the stairs. Shrieks and
physical followed for 4
few seconds, when for some cause
those from near the top fell headlong
on the struggling mass at the bot
tom. Immediately police from the
central station, who responded to a
riot call, began the work of rescue.
-Four of the boys We're dead when ex-
tricated from their position at the bot
tom of the, stairs. Others believed to
have been fatally crushed were taken
out as fast az they could be olsen
tangled from their frenzied conpan
ions, who fought and chung to, each
other in desperation.
Great Crowds Gather
The immense crowd of people from
he business district, attracted by wild
rurnors, jostled 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
We're sent to the city hospital and the
city d~ispensary, while many who re-
ceived only slight injuries were made
comfortable in carriages and sent to
their homes.
The Mystic Tie Masons lodge vas
meeting in the chambers in the build
ing when the panic occurred, and many
of the boys were rescued by lodge,
members.
Was Horrible Night.
NTothers, fathers and relatives OF the
boys flockea 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
members and other rescuers it REQUIRED
fully th~ree-quarters Of an hour to re-
move the lads to the
which carried them to their homes or
to the hospitals. Relatives who did
not reach the hall before the boys were
taken 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 a been taken
from the scene Of death and the crowd
had left the sidewalk the sight pre-
scented in front of the doc and in the
upper hallway was greWsome in the
extreme. Blood trickled down the
steps. Fragments of clothing and flesh
Vert strewn here and there.
The accident evidently had little eff
feet on about 400 of the boys, who af-
ter the excitement was over went to
the theater.