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Show HOODLUMS STAMPEDE THEATER AUDIENCE Special Cable to The Tribune. BORDEAUX, Doc' IK. An outrage was perpetrated here by a gang of hooligan? who started a panic at the Alcazar theater by setting fire to newspapers news-papers and programmes In the gallery and shouting ' Fire!" A matinee of the melodrama "The Lyons Mail" was being given, and tha theater was packed. Seeing the flames and smoke, tho audience was seized with panic. There was a sla.mpede for the doors and soon tho narrow exits wore jammed by a shrieking mob. The hooligans hooli-gans contributed to tho panic by smashing smash-ing all the tables and mirrors tn the refreshment bars- of tho house- with chairs. Some of the spectators in the upper part.; of the theater clambered in their terror oer the balustrades of the balconies. bal-conies. A superstructure gave way beneath be-neath their weight and several fell into tho sUills and were seriously hurt. Other spectators jumped out of the windows win-dows of the theater Into the street. A policeman on duty at the door, who vainly tried to stem the stampede, was knocked down and trampled on, nOn persons per-sons passing over his body. He was very badly Injured. In all. a scoro or moro of people were hurt. The hooligan? who started the stampede escaped in the excitement. |