THE BROOKLYN HORROR

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 6, 22 January 1877, Page 2

THE BROOKLYN HORROR

Nor? Yo;k, Dec fr.h.— The fire in I ihu Brooklyn Theatre last nkht vras st* tended by an appalling loss of life. It j is thought that not 10-s tlvm o;;e him- j drcd persons were killed in tii.o ru?h to j the door or burned to death. The fire broke out during th-? performances of thy last scone, and in ir-'e minutes more j the atidience would liave been dismissed. I Tlu? hou?ij was about two third.-; filled, ! ihoss below silticg well forward tovrard t tlis s!a^c, For those in I- he family circle, dress circle and gallone? (bore was no wnj- of escape oscppt by Wsshi^rton strsel. The panic-stricken people rusbsu pel! mell toward svd down the. sfoirwajs. Tho inziz c::it bei'am*? itnmediatsly choked j up nud a ?c«?ns of terror, confusion and | (iisfross on>sr.?d frhiv'i b^;ari dosorip'i.-ra. j Just nl:ivs? the hnd\r\f: plaice en ths ' slurwav, a sc:;vi« in the cri'.sh ha-.l her | foot S<r.'.vkrri bo^; - ea iba b;:niust; s rs and fell- Tlsb crcwa lohind forood forward by teViiEed people stili furihor behind, fell j ovev h;T sr.d ri'^d on top of each other j four and five deep, Tho police from tho j Sta; ion -house next dor were promptly at j tho scj'ue bat owing to the n;anr.sr in wa;ch the peopb were pilod on top of each oiLer and rrsn:;sed together, they could oitricaie cornprtrativcly few; and these wore all bruised, bleeding, and { ai.'uraed. The Bremen got- to work on the ruins, and shortly after daylight this raoraiug • they succsodecl id getting ac far as ths wall of the dress cirol?, where they found a great number of bodies, and immediately begun tue work of roraova], Up io fcieven o'clock sixty- five bodies had bean recovered, and what appeared to bo 20 or 30 more were seen in the I ' absercent, into which they had been j precipitated by tho falling of tho burning floors, At the police statioDj adjoiniug the burned theatre, the names of 86 persons niissiiig from their homes hare bstn registered. Eate Claxton, nl a preliminary inquiry ' of the Fir 3 Mar^hsll caid ;— " At' the i beginning of the last ace, just as tha curtain went up, 1 heard a rumbling iio.se oa the stage, and two wiuutes after saw flames. Tho fire seemed to be all on s the stage. Mrs Warren, myself, Mr Studiy and Mr Munioek were on the st.ii,c at t!:e tims, We four remained (hwe, •'nd endea/cred an best ws could to quiet tbo ni:dicoco -m '. nrofout a p.-iaie. j { I said to the people '■ Be quiet ; we are i between you aud ths fro, Xiis frcit duor !

»s open and 'be passages a.c clesr. r Not one of the audience jumped Ofi the MiMr - TiKi dirre? cominii do^fn on J^utt^Mi out nod jumped o-er . J&j^^^^^^M lh Mur.locK^ after end.. ''^^^^^^^H the foar^ of the panic jtr.ck^PPl^PP^^ his drassio? room to get Ws dd%ing f a-d nji.st hay- been sufi'.>c.;ted," '*'"- T'p '. - 5.30 on tbs G- is. t«ro hundred bodies hid iiP^n rctflor.^j. Tho I-"** ;^ c?l-.ni^t«d s: at-ur