Show 4 CRUSH IN A THEATER ER an alarm of fire cause causes a panic and ten ton person persons are killed A frightful panic occurred saturday night in the royal theater ga Gatei te shead head england re suling in the leu loss ot of a number I 1 of 0 lives Gates bead Is I 1 a town of lie la in durham while the play wa was in pro progress aress ome items one dropped lightal match from the gallery fl lery set et fire are to some of the theatrical furniture exactly abat Is I 1 not att known but at any rate the alight slight blase blaze communicated to a partition A woman noticed the fire are and bricked shrieked that the theater waa was burning at once the audience aud leoce which had been all attention to the play waa was aroused and not comprehending the exact danger made a sudden and simultaneous ruh rush to escape ertry every alala became packed and the aua genc which WM was numerous nume rou enough to bare have made exit alow slow and sad difficult bad b len ben en no panic became one panting true kllc must ma of curl ingmen and crying hall aluffo catob women and chren chu Aren the arong men from the work works and mill wills adored no pity for the weaker sex ex it a woman or child fell beneath the train strain sue or it wai wu at once crushed crashed under aion thod beela beell men climbed over ech each other a head heads and sought to tred tread over the mar mass ot of hamani tr to safety women pleaded for their latue one ones hold ing inc them above their head heads as far a adira could uld reach and the babe babes ith the breath being ait a it ot of them were saved bcd ak several instances ln tance by being crasp ed ad la in the strong band hands of men ablo able to bold them with one arm abode the crowd down the main stair staircase caso the multitude struggled and panted the luellor lun llor foster bad had rushed to open the door at the foot of the tain the olid solid crowd fell on him like an im mease krupp hammer hummer crushing via le life ufa aa 0 I 1 bia his body which was w battened flattened to the door down with him came the eight or ten tea at the bead of the mass aad and they too had bad the ufa stamped out of them behind the holeka and lond loud oaths with appeal appeals former for mercy cr and execration execrations against the creator made a bell in front at the foot of at the tbs stairs lair wa was the rampart of dying and dead over which the escaping mulu multi tude had to climb meantime those on the tbs stage hid had not been idle it was wa oon soon apparent to the player players that the panic bad little or no tic cause and that they should appeal to the people to be still some in the rear ot at the struggling throng headed their appeal appeals and ceased their effort efforts tc U essae aben atle theater waa was at length emptied ani d the panic over it WM was found that ten ivere lead and that many other others bad broken limbs and were otherwise ap loosly 11 injured the fire are itself which had given occa to tte ito panto was w but a light at af fair having only burned through a thin partition and wa was easily extinguished with two buckets of water it wa was anal dent however to maka mako some iome bung about the calling cellan cell ln 0 and d the ight of the moke smoke bad much to do with causing the panic paulc when it might other wise burn been calmed the city of gate gates bead has been thrown inu into general mourning by the calamity and all day the theater waa was guarded by the police from abe multitude of tbs curious cur ioui many vath pathetic etlo incident incidents occurred in the terrible crush for the door doors but it Is I 1 alo also fated stated that the display of at brutal selfishness 1 overcame every other feAture fe it are of ct the awful occurrence |