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A Fiendish Joke

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Londok, Jan. 19.- While about 500 persons, mostly Jews, wero witncssing a performance Tuesday nigbt of the Hebrew Dramatic Club at Spitalflelils some one in the gallery, doubtless for a joke, shouted "Flrel" The gas was mmediately turned off at the meter and a terrible paaic ensued. The people rushed in a solid mass for the doors and numbers were trodden under f oot. When the pan ie had subsided it was found that twolve women and flvo youths had been trampled to death and many others injured.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register