The Daily Notes

February 11, 1891

Morgan's New Opera House

February 25, 1891

Stage Notes

October 1, 1902

OPERA HOUSE OPENING WAS A GALA AFFAIR

August 27, 1911

26 ARE KILLED IN PANIC AT THE OPERA HOUSE

INJURED AT HOSPITAL ARE ALL IMPROVING

Most Of The Injured Doing Well, And Their Recovery Is Expected

OPENING OF SCHOOLS POSTPONED ONE WEEK

August 28, 1911

TWENTY-THREE ARE KNOWN TO BE MORE OR LESS INJURED

Burgess Asks That All Business Cease on Tuesday

Not Like Sunday in Canonsburg

CORONER PROMISED THOROUGH PROBING

CORONER'S INQUEST AT WASHINGTON

Ferguson Sends Flowers

Not Like Sunday in Canonsburg

GRAVE DIGGERS KEPT BUSY

IDLE HOUR THEATER CLOSED

MANY INQUIRIES BY WIRE

CASKETS BROUGHT FROM PITTSBURG

MANY HEROIC ACTS SAVED HUMAN LIFE

LIVES ARE SAVED BY HEROIC ACTS

MINISTER HEARS OF HORROR IN CINCINNATI AND RETURNS

CANONSBURG THRONGED WITH NEWSPAPER MEN

LLOYD STOKES' ESCAPE

Great Demand by the Public for the Details

MANY STORIES OF THE FATAL CRUSH ON STAIRWAY

CHIEF OF POLICE TELLS OF SCENES INSIDE THE HALL

OPERA HOUSE MANAGER TALKS

Partial List of the Injured in the Opera House Disaster on Saturday Evening

HELP FROM PITTSBURG

REQUIREMENTS OF LAW WERE COMPLIED WITH

RUMOR IS DENIED BY BOROUGH OFFICERS

STATE WILL ACT IF LAWS ARE VIOLATED

STATE LAW GOVERNING MOVING PICTURE THEATERS

THE OPERA HOUSE CALAMITY

Two Stories About Baby Buggies

WONDERFUL DEMANDS FOR EXTRA EDITIONS

HELPER FINDS WIFE AND CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS

DIED TRYING TO SAVE OTHERS

TELLS OF SCENES IN HALL AND STAIRWAY

Funeral of May Gleditsch

A Correction

To High School Pupils

August 29, 1911

FUNERAL OF MOST OF THE VICTIMS TUESDAY

STORES AND OFFICES CLOSE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TOWN

Await Identification

Coroner’s Inquest Will be in Canonsburg

FLORISTS RUSHED WITH MANY ORDERS

MEMORIAL FOR THE DEAD IS SUGGESTED

INJURED AT HOSPITAL ARE RECOVERING RAPIDLY

INQUEST WILL BE HELD HERE FRIDAY

SHOCKED BY LIGHTNING

INTOXICATED GRAVEDIGGERS CAUSE DELAYS AT CEMETERIES

PARENTS ARE INJURED IN SAVING THEIR CHILD

PITTSBURG NEWSPAPER MAN GIVES PRAISE TO NOTES

UNDERTAKERS PRAISE THE CONDUCT OF BEREAVED

PRINCIPALS PRAISE THE DEAD CHILDREN

OVERCOME WITH GRIEF

POSTOFFICE ORDERED CLOSED FOR FUNERALS

Funeral of Frances Byrd

LAST OF INJURED TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL

MANY FUNERAL CORTEGES WEND THEIR WAY TO THE CEMETERIES

The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 LITTLE DISORDER DURING TIME OF GREAT EXCITEMENT

Friendless Man is Laid to Rest

Father of Victim Located

HEARSES BEAR BODIES OF MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER

FUNERAL SERVICES OVER THREE VICTIMS

CANONSBURG’S DARKEST DAY

August 30, 1911

SUBPOENAING WITNESSES

DOUBLE FUNERAL IS HELD AT HOUSTON

BODY OF MURRAY HILL BURIED AT FREEPORT

LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE MAKES CONSTRIBUTION OF $100

COLLEGE STREET MAN DID NOT HEAR NEWS UNTIL SUNDAY

SPEAK ON CANONSBURG'S SORROW

FORMER RECTOR HERE EXTENDS SYMPATHY

CANONSBURG TRAGEDY NEARLY DUPLICATED AT MONONGAHELA

Reese Lost His Coat

Blaming the People -- Why?

August 31, 1911

INQUIRY INTO GREAT TRAGEDY WILL BEGIN TOMORROW MORNING.

MEMORIAL SERVICES ABANDONED

GRAVE CLOSES OVER LAST OF VICTIMS

WHEN DEATH SPREAD HIS WINGS OVER TOWN

NEWSPAPER COMMENT ON THE CANONSBURG TRAGEDY

Mr. Kelly Thanks His Friends

September 1, 1911

MANY WITNESSES TELL STORY OF DISASTER WHICH COST THE LIVES OF TWENTY-SIX PEOPLE

ACT OF ASSEMBLY GIVES AUTHORITY

Jury Visits Opera House

OFFICIALS DENY THAT BODIES WERE ROBBED

DELANEY URGES BOROUGH OFFICERS TO TAKE ACTION INSURING SAFETY

LEARNS OF TRAGEDY WHILE STOPPING IN BALTIMORE

Ferguson and State Factory Inspectors are Censured by Jury

September 2, 1911

Opera House Manager is Unequivocally Condemned

BORO OFFICERS ALLEGE WRONG INTERPRETATION

SHOULD HAVE BEEN MEANS OF ACCESS SEPARATE FROM EXIT (editorial from the Claysville Recorder)

Findings of the Coroner’s Jury

RUMORS THAT DAMAGE SUITSS WILL BE FILED

THE PANIC AT CANONSBURG (editorial from The Evening News Franklin, Pa.)

Canonsburg Has Heroic Men

September 4, 1911

FARMERS DECIDE TO ABANDON THE OPERA HOUSE

September 5, 1911

Town Council Names Committee To Draw Up Amusement Ordinance

September 6, 1911

ANGRY SPIRITS ARE CAUSE OF DISASTER, SAYS PROPHET