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Show P0LICE CHECK PANIC. Wild Stampede Started in New York Theater in Response to the Cry of- Fire. Nov.- York. Jan. 2 An Immense holiday audience which packed the Thalia thcatr.r on the Bowery 'at today's matinee performance per-formance nil but repeated the scenes of wild panic of tho Chicago theater fire, whun a shrill cry of "Fire" rang through the house Only the chance circunstance that several policemen wero standing In 1)10 lobby at the moment and met the emergency with strong measures checked tho wild, unroasonlng frenzy of the audience audi-ence In their desire to eacapc from the building by tho main entrance. Clubs and fists met the rush the moment mo-ment It began, the police and the employees em-ployees of th theater rushing the crowd nnd literally lifting tho leaders from their feet and forcing them Into seats. Tho attack at-tack of the police from the front was us sudden na had been the fire alarm, add served In a moment to quiet tho crowd and .avert what could, not have failed to havo been a murderous stampede. In various sections of Manhattan Chicago's Chi-cago's great sorrow and her mourning for those who died In the Iroquo!n theater fire, wore brought home to thousands by the solemn tolling of bolls In all the churches und chapels embraced In Trinity parish. Just as Wall street wnH sending forth its thousands, who had finished their week's work, this noon, the paront church. Trinity, sent forth its solemn notes and they wero echoed In tho other six churches and chapels of tho parish, |