Show I r NEARLY TWO TIVO HUNDRED PERISH r. r IN PENNSYLVANIA THEATER FIRE Single Door of Auditorium at t Is Blocked Bloc ed and Audience Au- Au clience Is Locked in Furnace From Which J I if i y Few Escape BLAZING MOVING PICTURE P URE FILM FILM FALLS ra ON CROWD Gasoline Tank Explodes and Scene Becomes One of Incle- Incle 7 scriba le Horror When Women and Children Are 4 j I. I Trampled on by Crazed Men r f ii I. I I Jn JUI i I. I u J 1 t l ii I. I VIii H Ih 11 N of oC If iro 10 Mere er tonight ili lIl t. t I r r. r a trl r C u ft I houI I t. t It t H I. I Ii I that hUt elli CHI them th tiff IH from frosi e er l CUIe nf III C n li lire rc t OO wi 11 ef efI IC ICI r I I IIIi- IIIi r four hu wll Im I Ihl Ii I. I mal l ln o to III t. t niu UI Uio th ill on bo- bo of nf th hp M. M I. I John JOI bui t I. I i l M Hr erl- erl TI Injured d. Je s lie lain lui ll r t J bee c cn 11 n hutc out hut lit c- c 1 by f bl ti bu Ieh CZ came le hue too tut tUll tu o crt avert the HIP the n nfl 0 ful fil iii nII rc I It t At this hour four doctors arid and a corps corD cOr i i oC ot nurses who arrived ed on a t train trail from rom Pottstown eight miles aWa away m arc doing ong what they tJ can CUl to tie relieve rel rele e the sufferings ferll s o of tho the Injured who will wi be betaken beE E taken lakeit to the tie Pottstown Pol town hospital ho as rapIdly rap rap- rp- rp f Il Idly 8 as nu JH i The firemen who came from l Heading ea ln and n on al special trains In 11 iu ro- ro o to lo the thc call cal for tor aid tid are arc now their best best to lo prevent the maSe village from being d t out Tho Iho entire I In Which the lou house e eIl stood la 18 Il aba ablaze and the village Is la threatened threatened with wih annihilation Men who loft eL ee their families In ii the tlc firo arc ure besieging the firemen to tl try r to ivo ua-e t Uio tite- e bodies bOlles of oC their thel dead ones ones t Women Vave la for their thell lout bust ones ats nl the look over O the the- ruins and anti realize thin ho bodies le are still Ul there e. e Ole One wo i irion Jou oui when she he realize Zt that she c of or nil izil ul her family wa ta A 4 left eft alive nr Barely I fifty fl those 1 were cro In iii thu the tlc at ut tho thu time ol uC t J the tu c il unhurt That any nJ CIc CI- CI s c-s- c Ju i ij J j l ULI fi i ib IP ICU n U Jy 4 b to N d lI f M C O f n ds 1 Gl j mo hc g. 1 u f II It Is ls t be- be bei tat the 10 company I i Hc t many If It not nol alt all al u ii of the com com- puny have hn c at 10 it It t. t was as during the thc Intermission on o'clock the aUl auditorium lum which i iU is U l second floor foor was packed to the thery v ry r ry doors that thai a thin film on a a. moving Ins picture l rt rc machine cau caught bt fire r nn and then the heads s ol oh dropped from rom the thc reel on the Hie a audience i i At t Ihla very l' l instant through som tue au c unknown a tunit o or of atho a of rut th the Auditorium exploded tho rear real shot hiot U un UI about the one door el a of Ule hall h l and cut off of every hope JOI of t I c escape there thore n was With one accord thet the i vast ast ClO g made a ru rush h for fol thu tho stage stage- t und th tho windows Tho The light ht tot for escape that ensued c tool look t no of sex or age and ruthlessly trampled under un- un children were der cler foot oot by tY mon whose one Idea was to tu f get out oC the fiery Hen furnace that eni eu- eu i compassed them Sonic u ut them d did get bet out out They Thc r 4 t j leaped from rom th tile windows to the ground leavel the door managed to get et out I Fow Ile near out th I i and with wil garments ablaze a laze reached the 4 f street to lo roll roil rol In Iii 11 agony ason on the pave pave- it The Th of or three chU children ren who were dragged e to the street t wore were crush crush- I t. t tr cd to hUh I 1 overtook 11 m of or 4 i Hut But Bu t the thc o i the thie they were struggling to tor I j reach them tho tim hlo windows Some women who r j windows and were a able lo to toL hud hu f. f ant f r reach r aeh lute Into In to the HI street t were pulled back acl Tach i t. t L- L 7 Into tho thov orn by m men n. n who thrust them aside In hi order to Have fa c Men C. C i were like lkc ke maniacs In lu that mad mat rush threw wo- wo wot TH They tore at Ut one another r 3 men nien and children out of f their way am and t trampled upon the prostrate bodies bolies of J victims their I Men who did their best beet to save their theli cn The Tho fire fin loved ones were helpless frt behind bh I and those who pressed from 11 flom lund had and jammed b by b others who ha haI nl I I J lost all human sense j I The 01 of oC the burning burning people heard for tor blocks outside o othe of could bo be o the the op opera house The They were vero of ot la und and desperation Men en on 01 shut stuffed their ears NUS to tU tho ther l and when the last burnIng burt burn out o had leaped to the tise street fi from oin In Ing cl there th wore were still in the t the tho windows wIndow's lc tl of oC cauldron that the Interior o othe 3 seething the opera house houe e then presented rc 10 4 sealed scaled riu-lr riu cries whoso whose doom was ollir 6 died dh d out out Their writhing forms could coull be La for fot a tune time and then the cur eur- curtain seen rOl lm T tain of hind had hidden them them us UI the thc n rench them tried to I 1 Ill o the town ii only two Outil companies strong were WeCe crippled t broke down on In the own one lire and though oYer overy to tile way 1 bucket In iii tho the village vii vil who could co handle a u 1 ll out their ho light against the turned lage s was fUl futile I t 1 At it the tw must most there then only 1 1500 In Ji o r- r on were ero jO lend and the ZOO men lueLl who could to 1 town towI d bYthe by b. bythe r. r uld ui l found the rush of the flames llames doctors Jn Jim the village All AhI of or the 11 and began the time worn vork r. r got bol to tho time cune ii I aiding r L th t Injured while hlo nuo uno e-uno calls B u o MI i. of 01 g irs Lu 01 to lO Heading and brought lC f trains Tyro r-O companies of uC tire fremen men and four tour from fron went from ant went which car car- trains Heading nn 1 cr J and amul doctors IJen IJ- IJ LIV- LIV j rIO n within locks blocks of the tho Irl Ore fin wa was cry vry tu ed into u a s. s lo to adjoining bullin Otc fire 3 Tile block were speedily In the st s Three stores n suet not until a a. a and It was In hi names flames ant I under control lire was the tho t that o Hi lii lre the of OP I When hen tl thu thio rear re wal walls olra fell ten in itt soon toon oon after midnight ml tl ht th tn the house loubo italY haU and amid It was anew shot ahot up ale I could the nu au hour before UI begin c drench the ruins nuns to work of recovery the time 1 i ul of the d dead all were limo rho Lo bodies l H of ur x mw burns burned ll to tu d a CrISP M wore were thc they ld mummies until the tho lir tire lire n When hichi time the bodies mi ut the Hie d id e found to get gel l IIII lying hg several ral t fet feet V COlp orp-a orp cs we were to th the according f time the door joOls deep in little move i ithe inthe There Thel was vas One Olle b by one th thu th the mum ot ut humanity out and deposit bodieS were vero dragged dra I places In various arloue obtained wit with of mr state slate po iso iso- t detachment t lun and a t special t to by a TUB lice iipp wu Issued orders order Captain the tile B ecelle ne to sl shout shoot oot anybody who attempted d to rob I the dead dea and to lire upon anyone who d L the time police pollee laws and amid cn- cn or d to slink through time the th lines S and pick Op Ui whatever er t cl effects the vie vie- IcI iii o might havu u dropped drol in lii their I light ht I IThe Time The agony a of of or the women an und and of or the thur children who were rescued lis is pitiful Many of them trampled upon before lefore y readied the windows and they thuy the tell fell rather than luau Jumped Jumpe to tu the street Many Iau of tl cm have fractured fractured frac frae- limbs One child has Ims both boll leSion legs leSi on and both boil m aims ms broken broHR Others Othel's have frai skulls I. I It Is lii certain that a large JarS number oCI of oC time the Injured will wll dr ml I |