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Show IIOHSE SPRINGS INm-fiUDIENCC Aatautl. Becomes . Frightened Fright-ened on Stage. and Jumps Over. Footlights, Causing 'Panic in Theater. EAST ST., LOUIS, 111., Nov. 24. While a performance was in progress at' the Broadway opera-house last night a horse utilized in tbe last act to draw tbe. heroine in a buggy became frightened fright-ened and sprang over the footlights into .the orchestra. Tbe heroine fell unconscious to the stage and three women in tbe audience fainted, while the borse floundered around in the orchestra pit, demolishing demolish-ing chairs with its hoofs and creating excitement in the theater. Presence of mind of a number of men in seizing tbe horse and sitting on it, at the same time admonishing tbe people to sit down, prevented a panic. |