The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-02-03

y SWdNlnS movement through the crowd.
\ woman in the baCl, of tn" hors" stuuj
up clutchlng at her fac aud screamed.
steiner in u" mrautIu,. Hlun" In Wis
both was throwing handfuls of sand
on th" CrispinG film
Davies ran across jh" platform and
swept up Il m"gHphuuc. Dut through
the darkness he shouted his warning.
Everything is all right hr yelled,
Keep your seats
Those in the front sat down aud
looked over their shot ldcrs But tho
panic had already gripp"d those in the
rear Men. women and children were
fighting to get to the irht"d ycstihulc
over the backs of tho old fashioned
r"ws they lcapod. each tearing at his
nrghbur. the stronger hrnting down the
weak.
a pi. Of clothes WAS gathered up by
the police aftcrward toys rubbcrs
women's hair combs bent and twisted
ana little girls glove were mute wit
n"sses To what happened there in the
gloom ahroudcd theatre.
Ros" Siegel. the ticket cirl in her
booth at the head of tn" steps leading
from the vesthul, To tn" street heard
the boys cry and tn" woman'S scream
y
her. First came q sobling woman At
the top of the steps she trippcd and
over her fell another woman holding
child
As The ticket girl watched they piled
up there Al the head of the stairs un-
der the yellow glare of the arc light
over the ticket booth. Sh" SAID after
ward she was too frightened To- move:
s.l,.
fight. sensclessly like animals she said
and as the moments went 10y the heap
at her feet grew larger.
Elias Beer who had h"on standing AZ
the back. shouder"d through the thronr
and got to the street. by this time the
crowds that flow nightly through Hous-
ton street had stopped and We're jam
ming their way to the front of the thea
tire drawn by the screams Of those in
side.
Sergeant Mcnamara of the Fifth
street station came Sprintinc mp. pound
ing his night stock for help as he ran
The rush down the steps carried the big
policeman off his feet. He could do
nothing. His frantic summons brought
Policeman Cunningham, who turned in
an alarm Of fire and begged Bellevue
and Gouvcrncur hospitals to send all
their available ambulanCos This was
at 30 o'clock.
Truck o Engine COMPANY - and
Deputy chief Langford We're making
top speed through Eldridge street.
when they turned the corner to Hous-
ton street IT was black with struggling
people, so quickly had tho news spread
There were mothers whose children
were in the theatre. men whose wives
were insid" amid the fighting hundreds
and scores upon scores of men and
women whom the strange panic spirit
had seized upon. all pushing their way
up the front OF th. theatre. holding
back those who wer" trying To- get
u'.t and tramplinr IN each other th.r,
in the safety Of tn. street.
Through this mob anxious tillermou
steered their apparatus until AT last
they drew up in front Of the Hippo
drone Capt. John j. Kelley of Truck O.
with seven Of his men pushing behind
him. tried to make some progress up
the steps Thro" times they We're
caught and swirlcd around and thrown
off their feet. To- go tnmhlnc back TO
the sidewalk.
Kelley put his hands on tho
Sll'UIu'ls W q llldl III II bl4' ''l MN
vaulted up and Clamhcrcd over out
flung arms and bleeding heads to tho
top OF tho stairs. His seven We're be-
hind Him.
once Al the top under the ticket
window they turned and with the wis
dom of years in handling panics began
throwing men and women back into
the rcfuc. of the theatre.
tpItSids ,,,l.r l,t1u N.r1 TIr,t,fnfs
If" line ana pulling down the steps
those whom they could diSrntansl-
Five minutes of tins ana it was all
over stretched on tn" blood stained
floor of the vestibulc at the very top of
the stars that would have led them 10
safety lay the battered bodies Of two
women with their clothes torn from
them Ia and about IL" vostibul" were
children, dazed and battered, and women
and men bleeding from many wounds
Up in his booth the firem"n found
Steiner weeping IN on" corner pros
tratcd by what h" had seen.
In the gallery NJ both ends. bent,
twisted and splin'cred, were the two
doors that opened out 10 the stairs
According 10 Abraham Grossman ana
Joseph Russo, III" two policemen at
taChed 10 IN" place. these doors were
open when the panic started.
outside the street was filling up with
ambulanccs. Eight had come from
Bellevue and TWO from GOuvrrnour.
The young surgeons had all they could
attend to.
Ten minutes after the last person had
tumhlcd down the steps II seemed as If
In" whole Of that part ut the East SD"
were pressing upon the lines formed by
nifty policemen from tn" Fifth street
station. Hystcrlcal women wor" on their
knees In the street begging to be let
through to their children. Every now
and then the lines would break ana
there would be a rush for the busy am
bulance surgeons,
Harry Brown and Morris pcrlmuttrr
run u dairy restaurant beneath tn"
theatre. That was used for u" injured.
Ten were given frs and treatment.
A woman ran screaming from n tcnc-
ment across the street. Her child had
gone TO the show with her husband. y
father sought his children ana wifi" and
was sent around to tn" police station
up on Fifth street There too the crowds
made anxious times for III" police.
The husband of Mrs. Pauline Fyho2ak
Of ., First avenue and the parents Of
Sadie and Sophia Janowt2, whom Mrs.
FyhoZak had taken to the picture house.
were looking through the crowd when
hnN mo fl,