| Show m r OF YER and Sixty Lives Saari Sacrificed in loa a Fire at town Penn PERFORMANCE AMATEUR MS AS Was for the Benefit B of the St Johns Lutheran Luth ran Sunday School Soon SUI ii n of Flame Audi ouli SI lUcanio Supervened Scenes s Pa Jan l te number numb r Hilled Id In last nights outer horror at from I to Town Mils think nt I t least 10 lives were St Only a few H Jt U I estimated e that them HUM In tho Iho playhouse uso when the ex exl tank occurred The Tho l n ot of the gas being used In connection COln ton with t CIUl An amateur performance of ot Scottish formation for the tho benefit of St Lutheran Sunday school was be hiis S 11 Instantly after the ox produced ater occurred somo 1010 ono yelled jre re and In almost less time than It os cs to tell tel tho center of tho opera use e was a blazing furnace Tho ra rn with tho flames spread spreads Ily s caused by the upsetting of at the it I oil 01 lamp used us as the footlights somo of ot the persons person on the tho stage o 0 endeavored to allY allay tho frightened and quiet the tho But all control n the men Inen Beamed to lose al themselves eles and fought with the wo won n and an children who composed the part of ot the Iho audience to gain street In this manner lanner many wo won n ll children who might otherwise IB Ie the names fumes were forced Coreed bad and trampled upon Par Pal was van this t case of or those thu stairways stairway io 0 were caught on reigned and tha mad amble for tor tho exits Is simply In Tho weaker ones were Aside and In milY many Instances to death koros tON ot persons on 01 Ibo tho second 1001 floor sins the awful Jam on eltho the stairways ked their lives by Jumping from several weN In this way dl lally hospitals any Iny pt t Che j o numerous tem I A STORY STOnY Is a town of about 2500 5 0 and there I Is Scarcely n n house rons the town tOWI that has h s not been af eM by l lust last nights visitation of ot fre who ho uben W Stover ono of ot those aped the names flames In speaking of ot the theo o today todY said When the explosion occurred there theres ther s at least SO 30 boys and girls on the tho age while many moro more WeN behind there was e scenes Without warning warinG tero terrific explosion which seemed emed to ike ake tho entire Immediately ere was a wild wid rush for tor the tho exits exis exise IB e people ople on tho stage Jumped over overe e footlights Into the audience seemed to havo lost control ot of The flames consumed crowd e scenery and then camo the a treat wave and tho suffocating dropped men women and ehl en In Its path Tho To flames did tha th it It It I was al a I pitiful sigh and I 1 will wi err try tho he recollection as IS long Ion I as I live nee nC the crowd began to Its way the cloore door no power on earth could ue saved lod all oi the lives but had tho thon thoIn In n not lost control of ot themselves this ts s of ot Ufa havo been een very vcr Mil The wat wa not brought broucht under con c n 01 1 until unU early this morning after 11 ai lanc had arrived arved tram from Heading and For several months tho Sunday school J ls of ot St St Jolina Johnl Lutheran church a 14 been ho Scottish Ila Ro which was being staged by Ir It 1 E Monroe lone of ot Washington tha and an when the curtain ro o at lt 8 clock thu opera opra house was I thronged nh representative of ot the th rough rugh The he drama was well wel played id tha tho piece worked smoothly for tor un C I production Tho Th second half haI the plY play in il which tho students from university and tho Puritans latch d to Leath Lath to meet Queen Mary Marya 14 a Just b cn reached reache The he people Ins part had their enal to tho drama a a number numbe of ot were shown by a a moving pie pic Ite fe machine ThU was operated d by 1 W Fisher of ot Carlisle Pa who used lights While ho Wa vas operating Qt i machine thoN waa WI a I flash uh and a au u and Ind the j sitting in ini 18 i of ot tho opera near tho thu achIM e In und In rushed tha tho melr action caused a panto In tho und ond many thinking I I building was alre rushed toward hi tage The who yoUn l f part frt in the tho mo mows ws to to keep back and old resume W cats but the frightened 1110 et f r a to climb on to tho StA tago Ile or i ho tho young on the J than the mAdo a 0 lolon 0 on UH Ui If It to them In hU hil a coal oil 01 lamp lampa I CI wih a 1 into the tho auditorium n od In nn 11 tho c and people 4 tho war Tho rho lied from tho and lal to JI Clown ENra oHu The ln In tho fro t of ot the nil nil P 11 fla r d 1 to lua r ar Ind y WOI by y a I crowd from the th rear II 1 IIo nm nf or tu tho I S m c lna in II the rell ho mob moh and Ild rat n and children In their I mi Or 1 ito to I get let of ot tho I n ot pr th local h al paper r a I inner of ot Vuro l hut onlY ly to 1 l a r tow w lator said laid I cr ear tho ot or ll tho rut wet oct pictures il kin Ilni iv n loud MI ol o Thil ca r IIII In or to Nar tl IUlo l 10 II It th out UI ihn bey he I lamps rl were plot a ll it In the 1 el uly the tho Dull i u mid 11 hll IS I II te f cause 1 the mp lii for fo the Ihl ami allt t 11 crU r n knocking o ollera ier down ln and o each other under foot It n I hattle In which the strong only a to escape 1 my small G and struggled to the window Intending to him out mit and I succeeded In doing so For Fortunately ho on 01 tho lire escape e and d to climb down dol I to safety l lI I Imagined ho would bo ho badly hurt lii II tho fall but I preferred this to te having him burned 1 then the I tried to find my wife but lut this was WIS Impossible and andI In InI I searched until the tho flames KIel ma mahot 0 hot I was wal toteM forced to leave Hie II and I knew kIO that Esther had been nn on I hunted nil ni around for tor her he ont could not find her herThe The man was ul almost distracted I he told his atory and ho was com compelled to nt times and give way to outbursts of ot grief He lr tho father of ot live children four Cour of or whom left at lt home hOI last night The building which h destroy was a largo brick structure high and with a n frontage of ot feet Cee on Philadelphia avenue aver o oTho The Tho floor foor was occupied by b the tho Formers ln nels National bank ald a hahl store Tho second third floors w by b tho opera house and uM anda uMI a I lodge room 10 OI OIl The l o building also extended extend oi on Washington Wa street for Cor n 0 distance e of 21 feet tc t In the rear of ot tho bank were four dwelling houses which ver pait of ot tho These TI es were burned SCENES Survivors ta unite In say sayIng sayInG Ing InG that tha attending scones the most IMst horrible that can be bo Imagined o threw themselves In tho Iho balcony Into Ino the body of ot the theater hoping lo to hid bomo means of oC escape scap Others Jumped jumpe from the windows of at the tho build building ing and were either maimed or killed Meanwhile the lames lames which hail broken out on tho stage were spreading rapidly rapid I throughout the building seem seemingly seel eager caer for tor their prey who had fallen falen In tho rush who worn wern so 90 badly maimed malmed that they the beyond Al All power to struggle wore were walling In their cries adding to the hor horror of ot tho They could do nothing but wait It helplessly for tor their fate to be roasted to death In the tho roaring raging furnace Many who had reached tha tho In safety dashed back Into thiS th burning building In a I mod mad and fruitless to save the tho lives of ot their lov d dones ones |
