The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-23
SIX lions ESCAPE
BEASTS Cause PANIC IN TRElTRE
In new YORK CITY
FRIGHTENs THE AUDIENCE

|FRIGHTENS THE AUDIENCE
Six Trained Beasts Terrify Crowded
Play House-One Shows Much Fes
rocity and She D:es Under Leaden
Hail-PoHcennan Probabiy Fatally
Shot
Six trained Hons escaped from
their cage on the stage Of an East
SSth street theatre at New York
Thursday and bounding into the au-
dience, consisting principally Of wo-
men and children, created panic. !
One nonness, Alice, largest Of the.
pack, escaped into, a criwded street.
Policemen pursued her into the hall
way of an apartment house, and In
shooting at her probably fatally
wounded Sergt. Daniel Glenn. Two
other officers were slightly wounded
by the claws Of the beast In q battle
at close range.
At sight of the lions hundreds OF
persons in the theatre fed. scream
ing, to the exits. Scores tainted and
many sat transdxed in their seats.
None of the beasts, except Alice,
displayed great ferocity. a few per-.
sons who got in their paths were.
scratched, but none Of them seriously
hurt.
Five OF the animals were still at
large in the theatre when the last Of
the audience escaped. In their rush
to safety spectators left behind all
sorts of personal belongings. Mean:
time the beasts roamed over the;
house from gallery to basement. An
hour after the last spectator left they
were rounded up in the lobby and;
driven into their shipping box, all Of
them uninjured
Three arrests were made on
charges OF criminal negligence, pend;
ing the outcome Of injuries to the
wounded persons. Those in custory
are Labelle Andree, the lions train.
er; C. A. Turnquist, their keeper,
and George H. Hamilton, manager OF
the attraction. The lions were own
ed by Francis Ferari, a Snowman.
The animal act had been finished
and song and -ance auartette held
the, stage in, front the first drop when
the lions, about to be transferred
from the steel exhibition cage to
their shipping box, escaped. Andree
screamed and Turnquists cracking a,
whip, loudly shouted az his charged.
Frightened actors, actresses and
theatre attaches began climbing
stairways.
Suddenly one Of the lions walked
into the wings and peered at the
quartette. The singing ceased
abrutly.
AS the singers started to retreat
Detective Peter Cahill, who was In
the audience, " the hon and shout
ed to the entertainers togo on. One
singer returned and began a colo.
Suddenly lion came into full view
and all control Of the cudience was
lost.
The first lion ambled upon the
stage, then second, and in min
ute, more than six were clambering
into stage boxes and out into the
audience. The orchestra kept play
ing until the lions came down into
the pit. Then the musicians fed u1-
der the stage.
Almost everybody in the audience
had a different version OF what the
animals did after they got among the
crowd, but nearly ell accounts agree
that they did not live up to the dam
gerous name Of the king OF Beasts.
One caught up with Mark McDer-
mott while he was hurrying down an
aisle, so he lay down. The animal
cIawed him on the head and his
wound appeared to be the most dan
gerous that any of the beasts inhict-
ed. He was taken to . hospital.
The last Of the audience to leave
the theatre were several women,
who, cooped up in g second floor
dressing room, signalled fremen
from a nearby engine house and were
carried down ladders.
A ttrong had gathered outside the
theatre when Alice emerged, trotted
across to q street corner and calmly
sat down. The crowd began to shout
and ten policemen, with revolvers
drawn, came rushing toward her.
She turned and went into an apart
ment house.
Abraham Glazer, . photographer.
was working on the first floor CT the
building. He opened the door to In
vestigate the noise outside and steer
ed into the face of the lonness.
Slanming the door he shouted for
help. The beast turned to stairway
and bounded up a fight. There two
women peered from doorway, saw
the animal, shrieked and slammed
the door. Alice then fed to the third
floor, where the police found her
seeking egress to the roof.
For more ttan ten minutes there
waeed in the narrow hallway fierce
battle between man and beast. Thtr-
ty shots were nred into the now en-
ragged lionness. Up and down the
stairway she raced, snarling and
striking at her assailants: Finally
the leaden hail that rained into her
body ended the battle.
It was while the firing vas at its
height that Glenn was shot through
the back. It was thought he would
die. Two patrolmen were clawed BY
the lion, one of whom was taken 70
hospital.