Category: History - American
The Tragedy in the Galleries--A Wedge of Death--Into a Pit of Fire--Harrowing Scenes and Incidents--Affecting and Exciting Stories of Survivors--Two Actors among the Victims--The Ghastly Array of the Disfigured Dead--Heartrending Scenes in Identifying the Remains--Complete Lis...
In only about one-third of the cases were the limbs exposed through the torn and burned clothing. Uplifted hands, whose fingers were shining bones, bore golden rings, and shoele...
1. Part 1The Tragedy in the Galleries--A Wedge of Death--Into a Pit of Fire--Harrowing Scenes and Incidents--Affecting and Exciting Stories of Survivors--Two Actors among the Victims--Th...
3. Part 3John McGinniss, an old employee of the Brooklyn _Eagle_, was among the killed, with two lady friends whom he had escorted to the theatre. He was about thirty-five years old, and...
4. Part 4It chanced one day that the proprietor's beautiful daughter, Nettie, visited her father's establishment, and not finding him in the business office sought him among the workmen....
5. Part 5A lady in front of our hero, pressed and beaten down by the mad crowd, fainted and would have fallen. He caught her in his arms, and now began a desperate struggle. Persons from...