Show FATAL RESULTOF PANIC Seven People Killed and Many Others Seriously 7 t r Injured in Turner Hal c > si t < Chicago Eight Hundred People Mostly Women arid Children and All Hebrews He-brews Were in the Hall to Vitnes PlayA PlayACry of Fire Turned the Audience Into a Frenzied M b Everyone Fighting to Get Out of the Building t S S Chicago Jan 1ZScen persons were crushed to death and a many more seri I S oualy Injured Ina panic which followed S a mans cry of fire late this afternoon on West Twelfth street Turner hal About 500 people were In the place gathered to witness the performance of a play entitled The Greenhorn The following were killed S DEAD Llndsley Hebecca Goldberg Annie aged 7 MUlonbach Regina aged 4 I Salomon Annie aged 37 Shaffer George aged 9 1 I Mendelsohn Mrs Samuel Xldmann Birdie INJURED S Adler Becky aged 16 legs broken S Adler Bella legs Injured Br cker Joe aged 6 body bruised and S Internal injuries Becker Mamie left arm badly bruised OBloomgarden Rebecca ear lacerated Cohen Mrs Sarah internal Injuries Grossman Annie aged 3 Injured internally S in-ternally Freedman Louis A concussion of the brain S Goldberg Sarah right cheek cut and badly bruised Hirschberg Mrs Nettle body bruised Hoffman Minnie injured Internally may die Jacobs Fannie contusion one eye cut Jacobson Myer Injured Internally and leg severely bruised Kammerman Abraham ankle crushed S Kammerman se internal Injuries Keal Mrs Sarah Internally injured Molll Mollle badly bruised Richter Rebecca legs crushed Rlssman Bessie aged 6 legs curshed Rlssman Jacob aged 10 le tloS injured in-jured Rissman Mrs Ida badly bruised MISSING j Frank Mollle aged 14 U j L 1 I Harris Harry LiJi iuI iii LIchtensteln Annie i i I t j Marqueless Fannie Mendelsohn Samuel and two children chil-dren S Frank Reuben The play was In Tiddish and the audience comprising for the most part women and children were all Hebrews The hall stands In a denselypopulated district AUDIENCE BECOMES FRANTIC When the cry was raised it was only five seconds until the entire audience was converted into a frantic mob every member of which was lighting for the safety which lay beyond the doors of the building The hal Is used for dances and when performance is given chairs JUe set for the spectators As soon as the wild rush toward the doors began chairs were knocked down in every direction tho nllp rHinnnenrprl ann ihn ovoitorl n people ran climbed and stumbled over the chairs on the way to the doors THROWN OVER BALCONY Around the upper part of the hal extends a balcony which Is open at only one end Hero were seated 100 women > wo-men and children and two men at the farther end of the balcony away from the stairway seeing that the rush toward to-ward the exit was blocked to them began be-gan at qnce to throw the little ones over the railing to the floor ten feet II below The children fell into the midst S of the maddened throng and were at I S once trampled under foot TRAMPLED TO DEATH Three of the dead were children who were thrown from the balcony and trampled by the crowd with not ni chance for their lives Following the children many of the women sprang from the balcony upon the crowd befl low and others swinging over hung by their hands before they dropped The railing of the balcony was broken through In half f dozen places by the pressure brought against it by the maddened mad-dened crowd CRUSH ON THE FLOOR On themain floor the crush was much worse than In the balcony The main exits from the hal and the only ones known to n majority of those who frequent fre-quent the place are two doors In the south end of the main auditorium that open upon winding stairs which eight steps down unite into one broader flight leading to the main door of the Twelfth street front Around these two doors n frantic mass of screaming men women and children was packed all struggling fiercely to force their way down the stairs THREE LIVES CRUSHED OUT At time landing whore the two flights S of stairs winding down from tho main hall unite a woman stumbled and foil In an Instant a score of people were down and before the rush was over threo lives had been crusned out in a space four feet wide by six feet long Within five minutes after the beginning begin-ning of the panic It was all over and the police and firemen who came hurrying hurry-Ing to the scene of the disaster were called upon to do nothing beyond carryIng carry-Ing away the dead and Injured and keeping back the thousands of people who tried to force their way into the building S CROWD UNMANAGEABLE As soon as the news of the panic had spread throughout the district which seemed but a very few minutes all the Hebrews from that part of the city rued to the place bent upon learning the names of the dead and wounded Men and women fought desperately with the ofllccrs in their efforts to enter en-ter the building and learn I any of their loved ones were among the dead Tho crowd was so great ao excited and j so unmanageable that several calls were sent for additional officers and firemen before it could restrained ALARM A FALSE ONE Tho alarm of fire aS false there having been no blaze at uny time Tho furnace in the building is somewhat defective and at times allows sparks to pass up tferjougli the registers I was J I the slgKE of these sparks sIn ItI the room that frI h sparK rlstnr who ma rasied the ralee cry oC fire the The hal of hant several Umes been few months sInce panics and It Is only a a numberf were ing hurt in 3 rush for the doors chiimfren dur a juvenile juvene party given i the place |