The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-10-03
Is WORSH|PPERS
HURT DURING
JEWISH SERVICE
CONTINUED from First Pags.)

was hardly standing room any place In
the hall. In the gallery men and wom-
en- were close packed, their heads
bowed In prayer.
WoRSHIPPERS SEE SECTION o.
GALLERY FALL.
II was Just a few minutes after .
o'clock when the informing Of the rabbi
was interrupted by q sharp crack
startled folk on the floor raised their
heads In time to see . section Of the
gallery thirty feet long on the south.
east corner OF the hall suddenly drop on
the heads OF the scores massed under Il.
Instantly there was panic. Those who
had gone down with the flooring Of the
gallery vainly strove to get their feet
under them and mako their way to the
doors behind. Those beneath the mass
OF broken beams and splintered chairs
screamed to those on top Of them to
keep still. for their agitation forced
downward with greater weight the
heavy pile OF wreckage.
Rabbi Tannenbaum called to his pso.
pie to be quiet and not to crowd to the
doors lest there be q crush there and
many be hurt. For . time the congrs-
cation was deaf to his appeals. and
men and women trampled each other
and those pinned to the floor In their
enorts to get out to the street.
One OF the first fear maddened wor-
shippers to worm his way out of the
han dashed to the nearest IRE alarm
box and turned In q call for the en-
gines. Trucks Nos. 20 and u and En-
gines Nos "a, 81 and a. responded 10
the call. The passage Of he fire appa-
ratus through the streets but added TO
tho excitement.
1000 PERSONS JAM THE AP.
PRoAcHEs TO HALL.
When these were followed by four am.
balances from Harlem and Mount Sinai
hospitals. one Of them filled with 70.
serves from the East One Hundred and
Fourth street station. the whole neigh
borhood was given up TO frenzy and
fully 1000 persons damned the ap-
proaches to Clairmont Hall.
Capt. Corcoran and his twenty-five
bluecoats had to battle their way
through the press to reach the entrance
to the hall. Then II was as much ~ q
platoon OF police could do to push the
people back and establish line about
the ambulances.
The rumor that q shocking acciden,
had resulted In great loss Of life duriny
the Clairmont Hall services qutckl,
smptied other halls and lofts flled with
celebrants In the vicinity. and these. too
pressed uron tho police H. with frantic
inquiries.
A temporary dressing station was 60
tablished by the ambulance surgeon
on the sidewalk outside the hall an,
there all who we're carried or assistet
out OF the hall received FIRST aid. Tn
majority OF those thus tended insiste,
on going to their homes. Mrs. Pine,
Sigh OF No. 336 East One Hundred an,
Second street. who suffered Internal In
juries was the only one considered YER,
b dly hurt
After the last OF the injured had beel
removed and the morbid crowds wer,
pushed away Capt. Corcoran started a.
Investigation TO FIX the responsibility TO
the accident. lie found that the gallery
a section OF which had fallen away
was virtually portion OF a secon
floor. left intact during remodeliing O
the building and supported only by thl
iron rods depending from the ceiling o
the third floor. or ceiling OF the hal
From many OF the worshippers h
learned that the gallery had been yrsa,
" ovsgcgowdsd.