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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 63

The manager of the Haymarket Theatre, in Chicago, recently prevented a panic Avhich might have led to great loss of life. Although a fire Avas raging oil the fifth floor, he ordered the last act ot an opera Avhich was* being produced to be continued to its close, and instructed the orclresfra to play loudly to drOAvn the noise made by Ihc firemen overhead. The eurtiVin Avas rung down in the usual manner and it was no! until the audience had filed mb into the street that they realised th c d.-,>,»-;er they hod been in. This Avas dm;; m ih-cughi h >me to them by on! uioi'i, followed by flames and (.i,• ( i s: • oko issuing from the shatio rod via dews above. As a result of this di a-i v two tii emeu were killed.