Show A THEATER PANIC BALTI BALTIMORE moRz doc 27 in a senseless panto canted by a detective gas barue lr and a foolish cry of fire at the old front street theater toi lot ight twenty tour four people were killed two totally fatally it 11 aured and too ten more seriously nurl up to 2 this caturay da turay morn mg log thirteen of the dead have been identified the others are at the murtrue awaiting almost all the v chims are of polish nativity and He hebraic extraction many of the were taken to weir homes by friends frien df rendering it almost impossible to att a complete list liet at this ible time toe theater boater which is probably the oldest in iii the city was filled from pit to t jome dome with people who hail bad assemble j to 10 listen to a hebrew opera which chii h hau been given in lue cue old opera house twice a week fur for the post pest mouth the lickei i effice rece enow that ver aver 2700 tickets bail bad been sold 8 ocl ucb the sale eale ot of seats was waa stopped becalm iberi aber was no more left felt general ad ad sion tickets were sold bold however a ter tbt s and it is supposed there were at least people within the walla wall when the curtain went up en the ibe first act As AB the capacity of the house to is loss less than 2500 the density ul of the be crowd may be bb imagined ten minutes after the curtain rose one oneat of the attendants went up to the be second tier to light a gas jet which appeared to have been extinguished As ac ne he turned the cock and applied a match the light flared up and it wat wa seen there was no tip to the burner the rho jet was well down toward the tage aage on the left hand side aide of the house in plain view of the greater part of the audience but as aa toe glare from it showed against the wall walla some one in the gallery shouted fire in an instant there was a wild scramble for the door in which the whole audience took part the vanguard of the terror stricken multitude the entrance on front street and pushed on by the howling ebrick ienir mob behind them there those in the foremost rank were compelled to turn to the right and to the left to reach lue kue double entranceway entrance way built in the form ot of a storm door parking aaning through three these doors they reached a flight of oteis leading from each door down waru ward to a landing from whet whence ce a broad stairway of moderate height would have carried them into the estreet tb street and to safety these steps kepa lead leading ng from froan the ibe doorway are but five feet b high iab but the landing at their base baie As la narrow down these the frightened people hub but tied themselves in the frightful struggle to reach open air and to oil escape the certain death behind them As me crowd reached the landi landin ngone goue to the right and one OBO to the left they met there was a brief struggle and then some one lost his bla or her and fell in a moment the crowd pushed with irresistible force from he be rear crowded upon the prostrate form folin and belian be anlu in turn to tumble stumble aad reel and presently fall prone khe myriad myriads of foot feet doming coming down like a herd berd of buffaloes buffa loef irom froma behind in less time than fan it takes takee to toll tell ak it the landing was packed twenty ir r thirty deep with the panic multitude and the hundreds anem were struggling over abiva go co reach the street the tumult attracted an immele crowd from the ot of whom triad to gain entrance to the weater tb ekter thus adding to the confusion A dozen polle policemen emeD also attracted by the shrieks ot of the frightened crowd hurried to the scene pushed ed through the door and to the writhing vases masa on be belandina bandiuk Jan diuK among the first to reach them was officer officered E J kelly jkelly forcing his way in through the main door jae he grasped pod a pair ot of arms arme and pulling with all his might dragged a woman from under he be sur surging gitig crowd A glatice at her ace tace showed that she he was waa past all human buman aid dead from suffocate suf location iod again he be beached leached into the mass of y and dudl ed out a boy abuts years elu he too was waa dead also from suffocation wi wilh b scarce a bruise on his hia bouy body the other officers by this time reinforced by a dozen of their fellow officers dragged out the prostrate ui oi ea passing them to those on the sidewalk dewalk al ambulances carried the dead to the morgue margue and the wounded to the city hospital spital wherever practicable la in many comes the slightly eligh lly injured in a few cases those who were badly hurt were taken to their homes home by friends tri enda when the mess on the landing had been cleared oe ared the frightened mob inside ilde were quieted down to enable n the police to clear the theater theater then rhen it was found that thai there had bad been no danger aud and not a soul boull ba hare ve been inured injured bad tiie the audience remained in their seats beat the theater was waa first opened to the he public in 1829 but nine years yean later was waa burned and the present structure took its place jenny lindi lind Us macready Mao ready cready i charlotte cushman and many other iio notables tables performed there and in 1864 etwas it was the scene of the republican national convention which ed abraham lincoln for we the dency and andrew johnson for the he second place piece on the ticket the oda cida bentio a at which the Demo orata nominated stephen A douglas after adjourning from charleston 6 C to ID 1860 was also alao held beld in the old building buil cing and during its session a panic was started by the riving giving away of the floor which bad been built over the pulpit luckily however no DO oue one was wae serious ly jy injured scon alter after this a portion cl it the delegates withdrew irom from the front street theater anu and repairing to the maryland institute nominated nomina teu teo john C b breckenridge Brecke oridge and joseph lane for president and vice president of the united states BALTIMORE dec 28 abe horror at the front theater last night is increased rattier than abated by develop mants the list of identified victim has haa grown to 27 and two or turee more injured in the city hospital are so BO desper desperately atly injured that their names may swell the death roll before an other night has baa passed atje list ol of dead to la as frilow fi ff allowe ilow louis abelsky Ame laky gabriel bernstein aged 4 years a sou son of le jle bernstei Berne Bern teiL stem tares bernstein ged aged 0 6 daughter of leapold hein ben lee coh aged 4 ida fried man 14 daughter of baduel frieu mau jennie henckel Henck eJ louis lt lit ledd liwo morris M 8 13 rah arab roset jacob Rose rosenton mon mo a salle sails burg 11 joseph welmet Wel tier lenia fral kel kremer 12 1 kremer 10 children ot of abraham K krejei isaac gere 10 katie kale berg 8 louis louie bernstein crewsky Grew sky a boy 8 crewsky Grews Grew fey sky a MW 6 sarah pollack 17 bjon n pollack 8 joseph Lover vera vcra Wa finsky 12 anna isky 7 hurwitz Hur of the injured these fire are expected to die threca boldman 60 years old fractured frac lured amelia goldbeg Golu beg 14 years old crushed head bead ants ano shoulder should ert a 14 at ar old girl not identified injured internally and af hundreds of relatives ivea and friends frien do ot of the dt ad and injured visited we the city alt hs espital pital today anxiously inquiring for loved ones while the were administering to the injured the bowd browd attempted to get into the hospital but the police kept them back |