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Show Panics in Theaters. By Associated Press. PITTSBURG, Juno 1.8. Panics dc-veloped dc-veloped simultaneously in throe "nickel" "nick-el" theaters in tho Braddock district tonight, wheu a bolt of lightning cut the electric light wires, and seemingly at once in each show place some ono cried "fire." Twenty-five -persons wero painflly hurt in the rush to cscapo tho phantom blaze. During a thuudor-storm, thuudor-storm, a flash of lightning disabled tho lighting system. For several minutes the crowds sat f ilently in tho theaters and then, as if a single thought entorod thoir minds, ono or moro persons at each of the shows cried "fire." Thoso injured in-jured received bod3' bruises. |