Show ij THE LONDON HORROR A Frantic and Fearful Struggle Strug-gle for Life SICKENING SCENES IN THE HALL CODcre tlonal Record fortVedncsday BUll After the Pacific Ran waysOther Notes The London Horror LoNDON January 19The hall in occurred yesterday resembled which the panic aembled a disordered auction room today to-day Broken furniture crushed toys childrens hats broken bottles orange of clothes actors wigs and shreds pel lie scattered over the floor Many blood I and were on the backs of chairs I spots tU floor Here and there ghastly the furniture knots of hair are clinging to the Several escapes were made through niture the window most of Which are badly smashed THE BODIES WERE FOUND it the bottom of the stone stairs lead ing to the gallery Here a terrible struggle took place between the front of the crowd rushing from the main floor and tbe leaders of the throng which rushed down the gallery stairs The dead lay mostly in the two op rows the feet of each row close poine vto those of the other one row of heads lying toward the gallery stairway the other toward the opposite side of the hall The faces of the dead are distorted dis-torted with agonized expressions and the t clothes completely TORN FROM TILE EDDIES Off SOME A little girl since identified as Eva Marks was found lying at the bottom of the pile of the dead her lower limbs bare and the upper part of her dress tornin shreds showing that she fought hard for life Isaac Levy a venerable Hebrew with white flowing beard and hair was found among the dead He and his wife were regular attendants at the performances They always sat near the door It is thought from the position in which his body was bond that Levy instead of fleeing flee-ing alone when the panic started remained re-mained to help protect his wife so the old man was brushed down by the rushing crowd and stampted to death His wifes body lay opposite a woman I in the prime of life who wore brightly colored clothes and quantities of jewelery BESIDE HfcB LAY A LITTLE BOY whose knickerbockers and stockings were torn in shreds A man named Hams Goldberg says hs went to the gallery gal-lery of the hall accompanied by his wife and family They all sat together rg at the play of the melodrama called the Spanish Gipsy Girl During the performance some boys in order to obtain a better view 01 I the stage climbed up an exposed I gas pipe fixed along the wall and thus I strained it and started a leak Goldberg Gold-berg placed a handkerchief over the leak Some one shouted turn off the metre This shout was raised simultaneously simul-taneously with the cry of alarm from one of the actors on the stage Then the people in the gallery rushed head long down the stairs Goldbergs wife was torn away fronj him and trampled to death his 6yearold son JUMPED UPON THE HEADS of the packed mass and escaped by running over them The managers are not to blame for the disaster for the passage from the hall to the street en trance is ten feet wide where the struggle occurred and the doors swing both ways The are several minor lfrom the gallery three besides the grease TLs disaster arose not from Vv eti crowding hthe passage but the a e frantic efforts of the people to force way down the crowded stairs The 1en and women in front were driven headlong into met the he passage where they trod there wasla Occupants of the pit > WaSahopeless block |