Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-12-11 | Page 1 | Yelled "Fire"; Knocked Down

YELLED fiRE ED DOWN DOWNMan Man fan foo Too Easily Frightened 1 Didn't Succeed in jn ta i ii g Panic Panic i in rh Theater at f i M. M Manager na er StrucK Him CHICAGO D Dc c. c Three 11 Thieo audiences l In tho th Fine Art Arts and Studebaker theater buildings were ere kept from front p pinion last night ht b by quick action of liz fire d department officers ofil- ofil eel cers and theatrical managers rs after ahe a fl fir had been d discovered cov In the Chicago Musical Musical Mu Mu- college building which adjoins the I structures One alarmist wes vos knocked unconscious In tho the lobby ot or tho ho Studebaker building by bv an official of ot the tho theater after artor he had uttered one shout o of Fire Firel Hobart raylo Chatfield hurried to the stage of or Music hall where a performance was THIS beIns belog be- be I log Ins given ghen and calmed tho p people In the audience who had smelled the smoke and had begun to exhibit signs of ot alarm The lire fire which W was 5 In Jn the tue organ lor lorat loft of at the time Chicago o Musical u l al college on the seventh soy sev e floor was Vias of little consequence and readily II was extinguished Chief Horan ordered that nil all the tho t o tod d department apparatus should be bo stopped a halt half block north of or the theater build build- Ings InKS Ho lIo also quickly stilled the tho gongs and the firemen s 8 shouts 1 In the tho Studebaker theater where a play was being beinS' witnesses ses by 1400 persons person all tho the exits were ero taken In charge by ushers and firemen who were ordered to throw them wl wide e open at the first symptom of or panic panl LC Loss Less 6 than a a. score of ot persons In ln the tho theater ater know w of or tho tIre fire On the tho t tf tenth nth floor noor of or the Fine Fino Arts ta building ZOO 00 members of 0 tho the Shakespeare speare club dub were gathered and in ln a dramatic school on the tho eighth floor about seventy seventy- five fi pupils mid nd teachers were engaged They were vern warned b by attendants of ot tho the building and all left len by the elevators