Show NEGROES KILLED IN CHURCH carcil SEVENTY EIGHT LOOSE THEIR livis LIVES AT birmingham ALABAMA A row itow started and tt a 1 ild 11 rush for door ensued in which milah mon ma end lid women ivorra ver bere trampled I 1 antler root riad and crushed to death seventy eight people are known to be dead and eighty injured some perhaps fatally as aa ilia result of a panto panic which occurred in shiloh negro baptist church at birmingham alabama friday night luring during the evening session of tile the negro national baptist convention ven tion fifteen hundred delegates were crowded into the lite church which had a seating beating capacity of when tile the audience was thrown into to to a stampede by a conflict between two of the alie delegates in the rear of the church I 1 the lie cries of fight which followed the audience mistook for an alarm of fire and in the wild effort to escape seventy eight persons were crushed to death aud and eighty more received injuries some of which may prove fatal the list of dead and injured included only degrees in attendance owing to the number of visiting delegates the identification of the dead and injured has been difficult during the stampede hooker booker tt CT washington and several other prominent negroes were on the stage and were unwilling wit to tile hie frightful catastrophe none of those in the choir or in the pulpit were injured in the least for a few minutes they attempted to restore order but seel n 9 their efforts were futile waited until the struggling crowd had advanced far enough for them to pick up tile the dead and injured at most oat of the dead are women and the physicians say in many cases they fainted and died of suffocation A remarkable feature of tile the calamity a that no blood was seen been on any of the victims they were either crushed or died from suffocation shiloh church la is a modern brick structure and has lust just been completed at a cost of there are four entrances to the building and tile the main one is sixteen feet wide 1 he deaths were ere caused by everybody trying to rush out the main ea at the same time inside the church chur cli not nob a bench was overturned rind and all of choso who were killed died in oil 0 about the entrance I 1 lie he people tile the trout front of the church were not injured in ia the least aaa |