Show THEATRE FIRE CAUSES PANIC One Hundred Persons Bruised and Hurt But None Seriously FRIGHTENED WOMEN HURT I Explosion In iii Picture Machine Starts Flames and antI People Flee Pice Madly ll for Cor Their Lives Ll I Atlantic CIl City N N. J J. July 8 Fire S Fire in Youngs Young's pier theatre tonight at al 9 0 0 o'clock ended in a panic In which a n hundred or more were bruised and hurt mainly Philadelphia and New Yorkers but none were seriously In In- In A number num of women were carried carried car car- ried ned on omi time the roof of the theatre unconscious from flom fright t. t The Tho theatre stands over the ocean and arid a It moving picture ent entertainment was vas in progress when art ari explosion occurred occulTed In the tho gallery Inside time the booth where inhere the man operating the machine was wn locked In iru in The Tho Ilam s which rose to the tho curtain culminated with a red glare through the tho entire interior Cries of oC lire fire startled the 1500 people who In iii an instant made madea a wild dash for th lh doors Windows were smashed in and women and children children children chil chil- dren were handed through them to persons on the outside The exits were not manned by y the he and men hurled themselves against the doors and broke them open where they re refused refused re- re fused to yield Shrieks of oC women In Intensified Intensified In- In the panic which threatened to result In ji a calamity i Struggle l to Get Out Omit The Time knowledge that thal the tho theatre was as aso o of frame construction urged the men and women to madly tight their way out Clothing was torn from rom women and meli m h during the struggle S The rhe gallery occupants made no attempt at- at tempt empt to descend the steps rhey They jumped through windows on the root roof of oe f th the forward part of ot the l pier ler and andrush rush ush d out oUtto to the board boar walk As fast as ris unconscious forms were carried out they were placed in chairs and aull hurried away to drug stores and nud to the tho hotels and physicians summoned A A. double alarm was sounded Hounded arid and called to the beach two thirds of ot the tho tire lire department The fireman helped those bruised and aud hurt urt to leave the thel l ph pier l' l Many nu Children Io Lost tt t. S f drug g store store opposite the pier L was crowded 1 those hurt cu None of ot T oui tut lr nt names L William time Die the assistant manager mana r who aM helping operate tho the picture machine machne was waS' painfully burned about the time arms twins and face Two young wom women n who would not flot respond to treatment on the time pier wore ore taken i j down the board walk to tu a u hotel botch still sUIl I unconscious Hundreds of or children 4 were lost In n the panic and it was an hour or more before the they the were r restored re- re 14 stored to their thell parents Men and women after tho ho danger passed searched for or abandoned wraps and lost gems Tho The damage except for fot smashed windows and destro destroyed ed picture machIne machine machine ma ma- chine will not exceed 2000 |