Show ACTOR PROVED TO BE GAME OAME Panic in the Orpheum Theatre at Kansas Lity C ty Quelled by One 0 11 e eMans tans Mans Coolness Kansas City May Md 4 Fire tonight in inthe Inthe Inthe the saT d t that for a time threatened great gr destruction of property destroyed the s vEn building and ald andt t intents contents at i Broadway occupied by byi byth i th Hat company causing a loss estimated at A panic was started In the th Orpheum theatre a vaudeville house a black and ando anda o IL half distant and several hundred peo people peole le In the thc audience made a wild rush for tor or tho the exits exIt Several S eral were slightly In injured before quiet was restored The scene of or the fire was the heart of the wholesale district and within two blocks Mocks of the t e C ates hotel one of ot the leading host hosieries nes The fire started shortly after atter 10 and practically all 1 of f the fire firer fighting apparatus In the city was sent to the scene seene Some of the theatres were Just letting ou and nd thousands of people were oon gathered about the burning build bund building lag ing They served l to hinder the work of the firemen and added to the excite excitement excItement ment of the clanging fire rire bells A cry of 4 fire made by J y iy people rushing by the Orpheum where the performance was still going on caused a panic among the audience there The manager of the the theatre theatre atre made a fruitless effort to quiet the people eople who soon were surging pell pelt mell for tor the exits Many on the main floor quickly reached rea d the street without caps caus c lS lag Ing Injury to any iny one In the balcony balcon and gallery however the three hundred people in that part of the house were soon blocked by a congestion in the narrow stairways and men and women trampled upon one another in their mad haste to get out Several women fainted In the th midst of the turmoil Clifton Gor Gordon Gordon don dot a monologist st appeared at the front fronte of cC e f tho the stage First he called loudly to the people to keep their seats assuring them that there was no dan danger danger ger get and then as he gained their atten attention attention tion ho lie went through his act adding addinga a fI of ot impromptu humor Soon he had the audience t calmed and the per performance performance performance continued Fully Full fifty persons suffered slight cuts and bruises None are believed to have been seriously hurt u |