Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — TRAMPLED TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

TRAMPLED TO DEATH

One Hundred and Forty Perron? Klllod In' a Panic In a Rtuslan Church. While the ancient Church of Romano, at - Bcrisoglebsk, on the Volga, was crowded with pilgrims from all parts of Y&restav, who had coino to take partln the annual church procession, a panic was caused by a false alarm of fire which had been raised by thieves in ordor to facilitate their operations, When the firemen arrived in answer to the tolling of an alarm b ythe sexton of the church they found the door locked. Breaking it In they witnessed a fearful sight. In the mad rush for the exit hundreds had been knocked down and trampled upon, while others had been suffocated by the pressure of the great throng of terror-stricken people. The bodies of 126 women and ten men were taken from the church. Nor was this the total .number of victims, as several persons had been killed and twenty fatally injured by leaping from windows thirty feet from the ground. A monument commemorative of the Ft. Dearborn massacre, the gift of Geo. M. Pullman, was unveiled at Chicago, Thursday. Ex-President Harrison delivered an address.