Article on fire hazards at the New-Yorker Stadt-Theater

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 April 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Dec 1869

Citations

1)
Article: New York Sun, 01 December 1869, 2.

“Humane people are asking whether anything is going to be done to render the Stadt Theatre in the Bowery safe for the audience in case of fire or an alarm of fire. Three or four thousand panic-stricken men and women surging down a single staircase in frantic haste, and crowding through one long, narrow passage, could hardly hope to escape without leaving half their number either victims to the flames, or crushed and suffocated under the feet of the fortunate survivors.”