The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-11-24 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS IN AMERICAN  THEATR ES. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.  NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—The floor of a crowded theatre at SacrAmento, California, fell in last night. Seven persons were killed, and 100 injured, many fatally.  The latest American mail brings particulars of the panic in a Chinese theatre in San Francisco and the loss of 19 lives. On the night of the 30th October a benefit performance was being given at the Royal China 'Theatre, Jackson street. The house was crowded, over 3000 Chinamen and women being computed to be present. Only two or three white men attended. About twelve o'clock some matting in the gallery caught fire from the sparks of a cigar, and an alarm was given that the theatre was on fire. The utmost confusion prevailed, and a panic ensued. Susie or 30 men from the lower part of the house reached the door first, but they were almost simultaneously overwhelmed by the frightened crowd surging down from the gallery. The doors, which were six feet wide, were closed ; but a resistless torrent of humanity poured down the stairway, which gave way under the pressure. 'The massive door at the sante time fell in, crushing severA. The noise and shrieks of the persons below inc,ased the alarm of those within, and the frightened Celestials rushed like madmen to the entrance, trampling and crushing everybody in their way, Fortunately the actors upon the stage, ignorant of the cause of the panic, continued their performance, and this had the effect of staying many of the audience who otherwise would have joined in the flight. The passage of the dense crowds through the entrance 11 and the shrieks of the crushed and dying attracted the I attention of the police, who having obtained assistance stopped the pan o-stricken crowd. This was accomplished by the free use of the baton on the Celestials' heads. The reinainder inside, realising that the danger in the theatre had disappeared (the burning had been I put out without difficulty by one man), fell back and checked their frantic companions, when safety was ' reassured. Nineteen bodies were taken from beneath the door and broken stairway, and several were found seriously injured. Death in many instances resulted from suffocation, but several of the bodies have maks of violence and and were bleeding is hen found. The news of the accident spread, and a crowd of over 1000 Chinese, men and women, thronged to the scene, and the entire length of Jackson street WU lined with half. nude Celestials. whose lanientations mingled with the agonisino skrieks of the dying rendered the horrors of the night sickening and appalling beyond description.  Charles Baker, a lab eirer, of Coker, Somerset, was remanded on Sa`urday on a charge of murdering Police-constable Cox in a poaching affray on the 16th instant. The ninth anniversary of the execution of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien. the three Fenians hanged at Manchester for murdering the constable, was celebrated in Dublin on Sunday. About 1000 limn, headed by national bands, marchei. round the monument in Glasnevin Cemetery. The Keighley Guardians arrived home on Saturday afternoon, and were received by a large number of people at the railway station, preceded by bands. and followed by a crowd of sympathisers. The guardians paraded the principal streets of the town. An open air meeting was after • wards held, but only a comparatively few people attended, the rain h-icing fallen incessantly from the time the guardians arrived. Resolutions were passed Condemning the acion of the magistrates in inflicting the full penalty on parents objecting to vaccination, and thanking the guardians for the stand they had made. Still PING DISASTER AND Loss OF