
Brooklyn Theater fire
A December 1876 theater fire killed hundreds in Brooklyn. Newspaper pages from 1876 to 1877 on a map and timeline.
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146 matching newspaper pages in total. New York, NY has the most hits (52 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.
New-York Tribune — 1876-12-07, page 3
… called on Miss Ida Vernon, at the Pierrepont House, at Montagne and Hicks-sts., Brooklyn, yesterdry, and inquired in regard to the incidents of ihe fire. Miss Vernon, who …
… Miss Kate Claxton was quietly lunching in her room at the Pierrepont” House in Brooklyn as a TiIBUNE reporter was aunounced last evening. She swilingly referred to the …
… thinking of the danger, she ielt herself a coward and tremblod. Miss Clax®n came to Brooklyn on Monday morning to fill a three weeks’ engagemeat, after which she was to go …
The New York Herald — 1876-12-07, page 3
The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.
A Wholesale Holocaust at the Brooklyn Theatre. WHAT DAYLIGHT YESTERDAY DISCOVERED. Men, Women and Children Buried in …
… MISSING How New York Theatres Are Provided Against Fire. ' Tho destruction of the Brooklyn Theatre on Tnosday Might proves to bo tne most terrible calamity ol Its kind that …
… TIISATBR. Never was such a crowd collected there as aasem* bled in frout of tho Brooklyn Thoatre yeaterday alter noon. The waste water from the burned theatre Hooded tho …
The New York Herald — 1876-12-07, page 4
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… by a Hkkai.d reporter last uight In her sittiiig room at the Plerropont House, Brooklyn. She received lnm courteously, anil signaled her wlllingnete to tell tbo readers …
… subject of the ?Three Guardsmen.' which wai to he producod the week alter noxt In the Brooklyn Theatre. On men Honing the subject, Studley said to me, "Don't men tion the 'Throo …
… street, gave tbo fol lowing description ol the scone In tbe theatre:?I was in tbe Brooklyn Tbestrs on Taesdsy night, accom panied by my wiro and another lady. Tbe lowest …
The New York Herald — 1876-12-08, page 7
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… Square Theatre will be closed until alter ? he lunetalB ol all the victims of the Brooklyn Theatre lire. Mile. Jakoubovitsch, ? Russian pianist, will make her first appearauce …
… brated its eighth anniversary last night at Association Hall Rev. Dr. Durve*. of Brooklyn, and Hon. W. E. Dodge made addresses, aou there was singing by the Young Anollo …
… Burly before wnom tboy were taken, sonl them to different reformatory Institutions. BROOKLYN. There were 213 deaths last week In Brooklyn, an in crease ot 41 over the total number lor tbe previous week. Three deaths wero …
The New York Herald — 1876-12-08, page 8
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… seventeen years of ago. OBITUARY. NICHOLAS XIELY. Among the hundreds or victims of the Brooklyn Theatre lire very few have left a larger cisclo of youth lui, sorrowing friends …
… genial, goner ous aud only brother of the aill eted pastor oi Visita tion church, Brooklyn. During a stay of over ten years in this country this young gentleman proved himself …
… deceased fnthor and sorrow-siriefcon surviving mother. Tho venerable Bishop ol Brooklyn and several clergymen and religious gonllemcn ol both cities, who knew doceusod …
New-York Tribune — 1876-12-09, page 2
… MOST OF THEM PEYOND RECOGNITION. Of the 292 bodies recovered from the ruins of the Brooklyn Theater only 77 await recognition. This can be possible only by means of clothing …
… st. was the wife of Richard Berry, an employé in the Disirki-Attorney’s Office, Brooklyn, and the mother of an only child, u boy aged 12, She had twice accompanied her …
… and the entire neighborhood mourns his loss His (riends know that he attended the Brooklyn Theater on the fatal night, but kave not been able thus far to identify his remains …
The New York Herald — 1876-12-09, page 4
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… PROGRESS OF THE RELIEF FUND. The excitement occasioned by the dreudlul disaster the Brooklyn Theatre had acarcely abated jester Uiiy. All duy long eager crowds coutlnued to …
… . All out e ghty bodies bad up to last night been identified. Tbe whole city ol Brooklyn Is in j mourning and tbe lisgs are all at half-mast snd will 1 remain so until …
… lakes place; but even then tho grief will not be past, j end the burning of tbe Brooklyn Theatre will long cart I gloom over the City ol Churches. AT THS MOKUL'B. yesterday …
New York Dispatch — 1876-12-10, page 4
… information, now giadly present it. “'lhe Gascon " was produced at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, on June 17, 1876, with the following cast: Artaban, E. Arnott; Lord Maxwell, Harry …
… MASONIC INTELLIGENCE: Blank Ballots; Elections; Fortitude Lodge; Let there be Light; Brooklyn Notes; Much Joy; Charter Oak Lodge; Just Like Him; The Masonic Enthusiast; A Communication …
… . THE LESSON OF THE FIRE. The fearful sacrifice of life by the burning of . the BrooKlyn Theatre has appalled the entire community and brought to thousands of men, women …
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… actor. v w tw-nro, a m Attm. Mr. Palmer, not being In robust hanlth. ems not at the Brooklyn that night, so the responsi bility uf Its cure rested ou Mr. lingers and Mr. Thorpe …
The New York Herald — 1876-12-11, page 3
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I MEMORIAM. Christianity Mourning Over the Brooklyn Holocaust. THE TRIPLE COMMEMORATION. Impressive Addresses by Mr. Beecber, Drs. …
… Manager ol tho World. Thither was borne yesterday all that the cruel flames at tlio Brooklyn Theatre had loft of tho earthly remains of two younc actors, Harry Murdoch uud …
… was nineteen years ol aga, tho eldostsunoi a large family, and employed in tho Brooklyn Theatre as a su pernumerary at tho llmo of its destruction. Ho was ono of tho Ave …
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