Show PANIC IN CHURCH STARTED BY BOYS Nineteen Persons Injured When Youths Flood Worship Chamber ChamS Chamber Chamber Cham Cham- ber With Steam S PRIEST RESTORES ORDER I Maul Many Were Trampled lcd Underfoot inthe iu in the thc Mad nu Rush Ruh h for fot Exits E. Chicago Feb 24 Nineteen I. Nineteen persona were c Injured and scores of others I barely barcly escaped e with their lives Jives during a panic following alarm of r fire in iii tIme tile church Santa Maria Marla ata Grand avenue a and Peoria street In Iii the tho rush for the exits dozens were ground under the feet of those be he- hind The Tho second mass was being celebrated when several era e boys bent hent on frightening tho the worshippers crept Into tho tile first floor of or tho the building occupied occupied pied as a school hall haJJ and hc began an tampering tampering tampering tam tam- with tho the radiator In which a high pressure of steam was main main- One of the number unscrewed the top from the escape valve allowing allowing allow allow- ing dense volumes of the vapor to flow out Father Glacomo GIacomo Gambera th pastor pastor pastor pas pas- tor was in the midst of the sacred office and two hundred members of the time congregation were v devoutly e prayIng praying pray pray- ing when a cloud came through the west door which stood partly open ollen The stricken horror occupants turned from their devotion to cast a glance Into the hallway hallwa which was isas filled med with steam and amid then thou the they mado made a n rush for tho tIme cast east door The priest halted for a moment In Inthe inthe the tho midst of or his service and then he lie cried to his fast disappearing flock fiock that there was no danger dangel He lie commanded commanded com corn them to return to their seats scats eat to advance ance to the lie altar and to be he calm lint but they did not listen to what lie he said Men women and children fought for ogress egress through h tho ho east cast doors door none von ven turing to the tho lie west exit whelo Jt it was was was' believed the time flames names raging Women Worn Wom en with babies hables In lit their arms battled d with men for tor an opportunity to escape and voiced their demands for liberty by screams In thick their native Italian ton tongue uc Just outside of oC the cast east exit tho the stairway stairway stair stair- way descends sharply to tho floor helow he be low ending eliding in a a. small lauding landing and a n stained glass ss window whitlow To ro th the lie right another door opens Into tho time hallway o otho of tho the street treet floor It was wa at nt landing that the tho crush was greatest and I Iwan It wan wn hero that time tho frantic ones strut t uch r-uch other a et desperate etL S tort fort to 8 J io t- t way H o l to o R n r the tho r J crush 1 behind J dl thorn O oR of rJ In 11 remit front endeavored to turn and j pushback push back those who were behind them This a a. i fatal move e for tor or thin tho constantly increasing weight above them forced them to the loom floor and amid halt half a n dozen men mell women amid and children forced through the time window and fell ell to the thc street si alx feet below amid a shower of or broken glass |