Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre

Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre - A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876

The Tragedy in the GalleriesA Wedge of DeathInto a Pit of FireHarrowing Scenes and IncidentsAffecting and Exciting Stories of SurvivorsTwo Actors among the VictimsThe Ghastly Array of the Disfigured DeadHeartrending Scenes in Identifying the RemainsComplete List of the VictimsBurial of the Dead. THE destruction of the Brooklyn Theatre, on the night of Tuesday, December the 5th, was the most terrible calamity of its kind that has occurred in this country. What was first deemed to be an ordinary fire, naturally involving serious financial loss to the owners, the lessees and the actors, was really a catastrophe of the most heartrending character, causing, as it did, the loss of upwards of three hundred lives. No theatre fire on this continent had so much horror lent to it. Even the most stony-hearted were touched by the awfulness of this great calamity. Three hundred human beings of both sexes and of all ages were thrust into eternity through an agonizing and painful death. They were thus doomed at a moment of pleasure and mental excitement over the mimic troubles of the dramatic personages in a play possessing features that touched the hearts of those who followed the scenes on the stage. At a moment when every eye was fixed on the painted scene, and every ear strained on the utterances of the several characters, the dreadful cry of Fire! was raised, and, in a few moments after, the entire building was filled with flame and smoke, and hundreds of men, women and children were suffocated and burned to death, and their charred and disfigured remains buried beneath the ruins. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37391
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: Sep 12, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English