| Show fATAL STAMPEDE SIAM PEDE IN A NEGRO Were Nearly Eighty People Killed I s NY MOllE I lUll A Cry Crr f I t lie tho Liken ullen lor Crr r In s pt on an crush ot of humanIty by II a In Shiloh negro st at avenue U G ln street between 65 and 80 Q and ua u muro moJO lie lierl C sons were Vere rue fhe catastroPhe oe C InjUred rl l lW i 9 as cuTrel it at curre I addres had concluded his W of at Baptists to th hours tor iO and ond th church wele In nW Dead Ladles were verO 11 ev ever dIrection thu tho ambulance Her Heric er CT unable to city WM V utterly ot tho ic Q them until after I Doz Dozer remOl deat were arranged In er Ct ot of ot Of the tho the Oil ot of worship removal to tote Louse boule establish arloUS the te more Inure than IL score were hid tid out on the Inside IDE DEAD the dead tip to 2 Ibi this were AlII Harris una Iii Pratt City K r F la Ia J l lort ort Smith Ark Arl Itel Stone Ore Ala Ma MaRev Re Rev S I Ii Orleans Sarah Pi New Orleans WeIr Ian iCan Z II Johnson Re Hel Mr Mont Rev fleY Mr dr AJI n chattanooga The church Is the tho largest one onu for tor tie ne groes In and thu tho JIL Pator tur thorn thero were lit itt least 2000 In says pays the edIfice when the began had been Issued to alloW more to enter hut the 10 th their lr way Inside the building an amI were at In I In eer every aisle rn tt tb to the tho church literal 17 11 p Juit liS as hooker T cOn can hl address oddress Judge ii tie ne negro gro leader rein engaged In Inn n with the choir leader lealler an unoccupIed seat scat and Ind It II laId a blow was struck It ruck Someone In iii the Ibe choir cried lighting I Mistaking the tho worth wont lIgh tin 10 for tre the congregation ros rose en masse md cd started 1 fot fol the door Ono One or oC the tho ministers quickly mounted the tho rostrum the people to keep keell ulet lie He the worn worl quiet times and to his Ilia to te be tell Again the ex excIted cIted congregatIon mIstook the thc word quiet for Ih Ore and rent renewed the to reach the door Mn and crawled over oer the benches and fought their way Into the aisles aist and ami those thoo who Md had fallen Callen vero trampled upon Ilk Ilki rattle The fhe ministers tried again and agaIn to stop the stampede hut but no power on earth could Hta th the fighting mass ot at humanity Th The screams of at women and ehll children lre to 10 the horror ot of the tho scene through mere fright IMn many persons faInted 1 and amI no as the they toil ell to the tho Hoor eie crushed to death O lII The evel of at the loor Is about Hi 1 feet teet from tte Ine ground and long lead leall to tl the sidewalk front from the tho lobb lobby just out tide the tho auditorium Brick walls on each ench side ot of the for tor six or r zeven Ien feet and these pruell n a ver Negroes who had Imbed the top ot of the steps were violently forward and mun many telL eror move others tell tellI voa I th m anI nail In 15 minutes ere pl plied 11 upon ulon each other oilier to I a height heigh t I 1 it 10 feet teet This wull isali ot of struggling locked blocked the entrance and the er t oC o 1500 persons pushed It More than O 0 lying ca n the underneath the heap of oC lodl did from TG Ts men who were In the rear the th church when ihen the rush began hegAn es I ie and Uld realizing the seriousness ot of rush rushed to 1 a COrner by iI cd turned In n a lire alarm The Tho depart t t came callie and the arrival ot of served to Scatter the tho crowd had gathered the front ot of e A squad ot of Police Was also M tl to the church and lind with the 11 finali II nil succeeded In releasing Q l from their positions In the The dead verc the tho crowd Inside Iran outlet came out Store cf them lost lest their tooting footing and rolled rollet t 1 the ICing to the p pavement ement limbs nM and Internal lUll In hour her the church had heen rl rJ anti the sights which mItel the fYs cy s of those hn had 1 como come I Vt h the InJured was sickening the lilIes Cal along the tho outside ot of the l ri the bo bodle les ot of men anti woo wo at ero and the tho cries ot of the tho nn crippled were It In III n a fr iv minutes the work ot of reo re D the bellies belies was wa begun Lib Tb Shiloh lurch hurch Is located just JUIt on It t ge o of the th Houth HI tile the ot of this nt oJ ci flu In Ih i rrt ctr lown went to tIme the t I Cf r th As s many of If the the t ng p could be 00 moved b by g were taken to the has iab t and the Iho rest were laid out on t find anti there the physicians t lini At 1 len least t iS 15 died before br from tIme tho ground I the tite stampede r p n and tt tI several other s cre thin tho on stage and rp rg g witnesses illnesses to the right fright C I I None one ot of In the tho It ir Or In the to pulpit were ere Injured 11 In tail i r n a feW tew minutes ther U nt t t toro order but seeing ij er t tte 1 were vre lilted until had advanced for far for tOI imm to nn an pick up thit dead J oC 01 s the death ore are women and 1 the led I y r In mn many n cases tile of SUffocation In A re ref L f Jt f the calamity Is fl bl I J birl o was ns seen een on nn any of oC the dl Th Tv were iero either crushed or rom rm u Irn In i sit alt J n n fl former shier Io and one of at the ht 15 It t ot of Binning JI Uve Ill aa a 11 a of oC the catastrophe eu u holt half I a block or of th Ih Ihan at b t an h aring tM time I the trouble All As he hera ra haj front of oC the tho church chuNh slid I blocking thc entrance ng It iii he said ald I hov th many sights but butot butI I ot at tim of cx MOnth d Wild I d the top lop of oC th thI I I In n begon falling headlong hr tier Were pUhl upon nd the warn e 0 the time the crowd con aM LC Push PUth n a few minutes man mn manA A 1 h wv Co li lil ach ten tn feet lT 1 a t Ith a JIh II itt I e tn climbing Over oer r the bodies leaped to the tho round with without out Injury to h or bal tal ALl 11 Quick Quickly ly as ns II a rescue party was ivas Or organized and no as soon as thu tho entrance was vas cleared hogan the removal of the tite bodies Dr q W y Walker pastor ostor ot of the Shiloh church stud shill tonight ht Shiloh church is 11 1 a brick k has just lit at IL cost of at 75 There are four entrances to the h bu building and tIme the main ono one Is 19 10 feet wide rr rt were lere causell hy by ll trying to rush out of the tho main entrance nt at the same time In Inside side till the not a bench hench over overturned turned an and 1 nil all those who wore kIlled 1 died In III or tile the llie lIle near the front of oC tilt the church sere not In the tho least Mayor W M r Drennen saId Most tostat of at those who w vre re were vero strait gers gerA but their bodies wIll 1111 lie be cared COI until and aall claImed h by rob thes Naros MET NT TI h oker T r Ington after atter tile tho said I 1 hint hall Just my lecture on In nt th the singIng Ringing hul com when sonic woman back of iri In h heard to at the choir which th the gallery understood to be lire TItI Thill repeated and stencil the tue stamped found I on investigation that 1 a Bit lr hiatt on the tho tots toes of bf It 11 delegate from named Bullou resented relented It and a motion as It to draw n a tUIi This to scream There little excitement In the center and front froat ot tf the church Tue rear ot of th church was timi some ot of the men tried to wall walk out on the ha heads 1 ot of the tho crowd At the tho tune time ot of the alarm n there were vero people lii In tile tho church and tull fully that r without The crowd on the tho surged In and this In n a Inea nrc for tOl the largi loss Joss ot of life Tile majority of at those killed were el to death Yer ery tow few hiotte f broken 1 saw that n a woe imminent I started the choir singing hart lart ot of the thu AudIence joined them I remained until the tho ex excitement hall hail for Cor full tull 30 minutes One good sister whoso whose minnie I dont ont know caught me IJ by the Iho wrist and he held me the tho ex cx saying Keep stIll stIllI I nm am Unable to ad tidy but there is III 1 a that the tion will n joum out ot of respect to the tho dead The Tue session would have closed close 1 ne flet t Monday night So tar nR an Is hi known about ten tIde gates Were ivere among the killed two from and two from New Ne Orleans boo be being ing number |
