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Show NEQR0ES KILLED IN CHURCH SEVENTY-EIGHT LOOSE THEIR LIVES AT 1 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. I A How Hlarted and a Wild Itmh for Hoor I Knaued, In Which Men and Women M Mere Trampled Under Foot aud 'A M C'ruahed to Heath. r l SM , Seventy-eight people ore known to be dead and eighty Injured, somo per- ' P haps fatally, as the result of a pa nip ; which occurred In Shlloh Negro Haft- h list church at lllrmlngham, Alabama, i; Friday night, during tho evening ses- tlon of the negro National Baptist eon- !, ventlon. f Fifteen hundred delegates were W crowded Into the church, which had a i seating capocity of only 400, when tho J," audience was thrown into a stampede it- by a conflict between two of the dele b gates In the rear of the church. The cries of "fight" which followed the J audience mistook for an alarm of ? "flro" nnd In the wild effort to escape lj seventy-eight persons were crushed to death Btid eighty more received Injur- 'j les, gome of which may prove fatal. i Tlie list of dead and Injured included , only negroes in attendance. it Owing to the number of visiting del- ij egatcs, the Identification of thu dead. and Injured has been difficult. During tlie storapedo Hooker T. Washington and scvural other prominent promi-nent negroes wete on tho stage and wero unwilling witnesses to the frightful fright-ful catastrophe. None of those in tho choir or In the pulpit were injured In the least. For a few minutes they ot- 'v tempted to restore older, but, seeing: m their efforts were futile, waited until x the struggling crowd hail advanced fur enough for them lo pick up the dead, and Injured. Most of the dead arc women, nnd the 1 physicians say in many coses they j fainted and died of suffocation. A re j markable feature of tho calamity is J that no blood was seen on tiny of the j victims. They were either crushed or j died from suffocation. ' Shlloh chinch Is a modern brick Structure and has just been completed at a cost of 375,000. There aro four entrances to tlie building and the main one is sixteen feet wide. The deaths-were deaths-were caused by everybody trying to rush out the main entrauce at tlie same time. Inside the church, not u bench was overturned and all of those who were killed died in or about tlie entrance. en-trance. The people near the front of the church were not injured In the least. |