Show tae THE ACCIDENT AT THE sacramento CONCERT HALL SEVEN DEAD AND tso TWO 11 HUNDRED UNDRED MORE OK OR LESS WOUNDED no women were wore present and at an early hour last evening the par quette was packed with men and the boxes at 3 and 4 each were filled by the same sex when the curtain went up it disclosed a be semicircle mi of men and women arranged and clad after the usual melodeon style the women being in short c clothes nind and nearly all ail heing being possessed of more than usual personal attractions the 0 overture v arture had been played a few solos sung and an interval of or silence had bad been reached when suddenly the floor gave way ways a and lla jid the whole mass of people thrown violently towards its centre were precipitated into the stable below a distance orsome of some sixteen or eighteen feet the floor seemed to sway down slightly in the middle the stage sank the joists foists drew out of the walls the floor broke off at the room partitions on the east end the rows of boxes careened towards each other clung an instant to the wall as they fel feli and then pitched over upon the struggling mass moss of human beings below tub seene scene which followed beg gars description one cry of horror went up froin the stricken a audience ud lencel then it rose en ca masse manse the next instant it was tossed in it a arp ken and confused heap and a second ond afterwards it was plunged downwards and crushed beneath the broken timbers and falling boxes antan entangled g ed in the wreck of furniture and stage fixtures and wedged in between and broken upon the hacks carria carriages 8 1 and other vehicles and the ta neavy m vy stall partitions below the wails walls trembled with the shock the roof wavered the floor beneath groaned with the mighty shock but fortunately the walls stood the roof clung t to 0 its fastenings and the stable floor supported from below by posts bore up under its new burde burden ii the thunder odthe of the tho fall re sounded the block a great greaf cloud of dust burst bura from the and windows some of the broken gas pipes blazed forth in long streams of flame the light tra trappings P ings of the arec wrecked ked stage agnit ignited Is the cry of was given on before the real nature 0 of the calamity was known the bells boomed forth the signal for rescue Ye Belie meanwhile within the doomed building rang with the shrieks of the wounded the groans of the dying and the cries of the mass of the terrified multitude struggling with itself in frantic endeavors tp escape from the inclosure ot of the walls and made desperate by fear that the th threatening beaten tiers of brick brlek would fall tali in upon and crush it again men lien kan sprang kag upon each other dashed over pros bodies clamber clambered i ed upon thid he heads beads of the seething mass fought ilk lik like ilke devoted beings with but bul one for life left the sole dominant apt idea of self preservation overriding the rea giving mercy no resting place fortunately the way was now broad for speedy gay tay clearance lefi ce abidin and aud in a very few moments the uninjured had fought their way through wreck and ruin to open air then came the firemen and police and hundreds of strongmen strong men to the rescue chief eng engineer jg lee took charge of his force and of all the workers and aided by willing volunteers voun rhe the the rescue went on with the speed of de desperation onan and aud d was urged forward with il ii all ali 11 the power men were capable of who saw their blee bleeding dink dying fellows before them crushed and helpless and heard their despairing cries beat the air for help help for gods sake help The Thea alarm larra bells still rang and the news newa of the terrible disaster spread with highl lightning n ing like velocity throughout the tho city As it was the tho streets street were wre unusually fail fall and aa as the news went U abroad this people by thousands to the seene scene in civery a very brief space of bf time the entire street from K to L was waa a dense mass masi of human b thep thel spaces adjacent to toj J the nort hand haud epand down IK far a block were crowded with people on whose pale lips whis whispered grad horror clung and over all hii t there e re was a terrible cloua cloud of abe strong men man who are aid shaken at no slight dang danger pr paled aid and sickened and women wept in hysterical agony we have seen many agonizing spectacles but have bato seen and heard of none w where here hero buch such a vast mass of if people p I 1 was so deeply moved here were er 0 men and women as ye yet t ull un aware ware of the real extent of the calamity and rid magnifying it tenfold in the rich rih sympathy ot their souls and making manifest the horror which thrilled them to the marrow but hundreds reds of hands soon laid bare the truth and the dead were taken up and their contorted limbs decently compo composed aed eed for the long silence of the grave the wounded were borne to the nearest offices ell eil engine gine houses drug stores and hotels every physician of the city was on hand band and a hundred ming willing w and experienced nurses proffered with eager sympathy all n needed ceded aid visiting physicians came camo cajoto to the h help heip P of those resident here and joked worked nobly ina in a common cause lin in an hours time the wreck was literally torn up and the fact made certainty to the senses that no mortal was left beneath the ruins until far into the night the people thronged thron ged the streets seeking for every particular all sorts of rumors went abroad and agonized friends wives and mothers brothers and sisters sis were searching for loved ones supposed to be numbered with the victims it ws several hours before a any sort of quiet settled down and friends met friends and thanked god they were unhurt meanwhile thousands passed in silent procession through gh the dead house on oll fourth street and gazed u pon upon the poor wrecks of bodies which but a igor rief brief time before were living men full of lifland ilfe life and hope INCIDENTS A gentleman who fell and was aa burled buried beneath the wreck and a mass of 0 human beings states that for foz fora foza a tine he thought suffocation ln evitable inevitable owing to the i dust and great pressure and belle believes va that he would not have survived but for the stream of water which the firemen introduced and which falling upon him seemed the most glorious boon he ever received his mouth was so parched that he h e lapped pe d up some of the water horn norn the boards beneath him he gives a touching description of his surroundings roun dings in the wreck of the shouts cries and moans of thi the agonizing calls for help and the fervent prayers to god from th the e lips of many who doubtless never haffelt had felt death so 0 o near before of the I 1 struggle to gain positions a trifle more favorable of the hopes llopes afim mediate rescue and their blasting and all the misery the imagination can conce conee conceive lyet of as being suffered sunne red relieved now and again by cheery word words from lio some bome me brave hearts who wh of though buffer suffer suffering Dg like the others could forget themselves to encourage their neighbors one On thing ething that attracted the attention te of all after the dead and wounded had been removed from the wreck was the fragments into which the furniture of the theatre had been heen broken there was scarcely y a whole chair to be seen und and the th lumber lum be that had been used in the construction of the tho gallery boxes etc was broken into kindling lin woodald woo V 0 dand and when the fragments 0 of f lumber and the tho s tage stage fittings were removed to the street yesterday many a stout man shuddered at the spectacle of tinsel and alyd gaudy finery saturated with blood I 1 THE LUDICROUS SIDE notwithstanding the shocking character of the accident and the general gloom occasioned events occurred that were highly ludicrous and many of the sufferers seemed disposed to look upon the matter in as happy a manner as possible one of the members of the troupe on some somo ones suggesting that the company was pretty 1 much gone in referring to the fact that many were hurt burt replied 91 3 yes es wo we all went in together 12 A gentleman remarked that it was wils the finest company he had known of its performance literally brought down the houe house A german who was among those that fell escaped unhurt and clambered out of the rul rui ruin r with grest great agility on reaching the sidewalk I 1 he met an pc acquaintance and rid ejaculated I 1 mine aline got in himmell I 1 feel so glad as more than fiffy fifty toller what 1 gets out of therel notwithstanding the serious business of the moment the crowd that stood near him burst into laughter another man with blood running down his face paced rapidly about the doorway gesticulating wildly ly and inquiring does a auy any ly one know me does any otie one know 0 w me one man a railroad employed emp loye sat next to the orchestra and the large urge hass bass fiddle fell with him he to said hey reached the floor boget together is and he made hini hinl himself self seif as small 1 as possible by its bide aide and felt that he had a friend A boy not more than 12 years of age was taken out unhurt and after getting over his fright told his story this way there was a big man right by me and when we went down he be went quicker than me and first thing I 1 knew I 1 h had ad hold of him and was roosting ro a top of his back and by and by we got down and id been thinking about everything running away from school lying to mother and that I 1 had no business to be there and everything you bet and afier after we had been down a few minutes and some somo one had a light the big man shook me up a little and says to me sonny you never goin to tumble 12 and I 1 got orf off sacramento record union nov 19 |