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Morgan Building
The Morgan Opera House Project
About John C. Morgan
Images of the model
List of Victims
Annie Laird
Arthur McPeake
Blanche E. Kelly
Bolus Dubrowski
Callie Young
Carl Lane
Cora Evelyn Marshall
Earl James Kelly
Elizabeth Gibbs
Elizabeth Gleditsch
Frances Louise Byrd
George Kay
George Owen Cole
Harold Shaner
Helen Miller
Lilly Green
Ludwig Nugy
Lulu (Lillian) Fisher
Marcella Robinson
Margret Lane
Mary Ann Laird Campbell
Murray Hill
Paul Mastic
Sidney Rittiger
Stella Richards
Walter Neish
Newspaper Articles
Canonsburg Local-Herald
Canonsburg Local-Herald -- February 18, 1891 Grand Opening of Morgan's New Opera House
Indiana County Gazette
Indiana County Gazette -- August 30, 1911 Glen Campbell Girl Among Victims at Canonsburg
New York Times
The New York Times -- August 27, 1911 25 DIE, 50 HURT IN THEATRE RUSH
The New York Times -- August 27, 1911 HARRISBURG, Penn. Aug. 27
The New York Times -- August 28, 1911 PANIC AND FEW EXITS
The New York Times -- August 28, 1911 THEATRE DEATHS DUE TO NARROW STAIRS
The New York Times -- August 29, 1911 PANIC IN A SAFE THEATRE
The New York Times -- August 30, 1911 PALLBEARERS FALL AT LIGHTNING STROKE
The New York Times -- September 2, 1911 PICTURE PANIC BLAME FIXED.
Pittsburg Dispatch
Pittsburg Dispatch -- August 28, 1911 Newsie's Face is Missing; School Bells Are Silent
Pittsburg Dispatch -- August 28, 1911 Town Is Appalled By Horror
Pittsburg Dispatch -- August 28, 1911 Two Heroes Die in Wake of Horror
Pittsburg Dispatch -- August 28, 1911 Betrothed Couple United in Death.
Pittsburgh Gazette Times
Pittsburg Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 SHOUT OF "FIRE" IN JOKING SPIRIT
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 BABY CARRIAGES REPORTED AT BOTTOM OF STAIRWAY
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 BODY SENT HOME.
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 BRAVE LITTLE GIRL LOSES FIGHT TO SAVE HER SISTER
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 Canonsburg's Streets Filled With Misery
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 Heroic Fight to Save Intended Bride Null
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 Inquest Into Theater Accident At Canonsburg On Either Thursday Of Friday
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 LANE FAMILY HIT HARD BY DISASTER
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS DEAD IN CANONSBURG THEATER PANIC
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 YOUTHFUL HEROES LOSE LIVES IN MOST PATHETIC MANNER
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 No Cause for Panic; Broken Film Shown
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 WEE BABY IS TOSSED TO SAFETY BY MOTHER
Pittsburgh Gazette Times -- August 27, 1911 Woman Escapes Death Then Becomes Insane
The Daily Notes
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 Friendless Man is Laid to Rest
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 HEARSES BEAR BODIES OF MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 MANY FUNERAL CORTEGES WEND THEIR WAY TO THE CEMETERIES
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 PARENTS ARE INJURED IN SAVING THEIR CHILD
The Daily Notes -- Father of Victim Located
The Daily Notes -- August 27, 1911 26 ARE KILLED IN PANIC AT THE OPERA HOUSE
The Daily Notes -- August 27, 1911 INJURED AT HOSPITAL ARE ALL IMPROVING
The Daily Notes -- August 27, 1911 Most Of The Injured Doing Well, And Their Recovery Is Expected
The Daily Notes -- August 27, 1911 OPENING OF SCHOOLS POSTPONED ONE WEEK
The Daily Notes -- August 28, REQUIREMENTS OF LAW WERE COMPLIED WITH
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 A Correction
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Burgess Asks That All Business Cease on Tuesday
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 CANONSBURG THRONGED WITH NEWSPAPER MEN
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 CASKETS BROUGHT FROM PITTSBURG
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 CHIEF OF POLICE TELLS OF SCENES INSIDE THE HALL
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 CORONER PROMISED THOROUGH PROBING
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 CORONER'S INQUEST AT WASHINGTON
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 DIED TRYING TO SAVE OTHERS
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Ferguson Sends Flowers
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Funeral of May Gleditsch
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 GRAVE DIGGERS KEPT BUSY
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Great Demand by the Public for the Details
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 HELP FROM PITTSBURG
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 HELPER FINDS WIFE AND CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 IDLE HOUR THEATER CLOSED
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 LIVES ARE SAVED BY HEROIC ACTS
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 LLOYD STOKES' ESCAPE
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 MANY HEROIC ACTS SAVED HUMAN LIFE
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 MANY INQUIRIES BY WIRE
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 MANY STORIES OF THE FATAL CRUSH ON STAIRWAY
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 MINISTER HEARS OF HORROR IN CINCINNATI AND RETURNS
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 NEWS BROKEN TO MRS LANE OF CHILDREN'S DEATH
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Not Like Sunday in Canonsburg
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Not Like Sunday in Canonsburg
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 OPERA HOUSE MANAGER TALKS
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Partial List of the Injured in the Opera House Disaster on Saturday Evening
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 RUMOR IS DENIED BY BOROUGH OFFICERS
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 STATE WILL ACT IF LAWS ARE VIOLATED
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 TELLS OF SCENES IN HALL AND STAIRWAY
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 THE OPERA HOUSE CALAMITY
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 To High School Pupils
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 TWENTY-THREE ARE KNOWN TO BE MORE OR LESS INJURED
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 Two Stories About Baby Buggies
The Daily Notes -- August 28, 1911 WONDERFUL DEMANDS FOR EXTRA EDITIONS
The Daily Notes -- August 28, STATE LAW GOVERNING MOVING PICTURE THEATERS
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 INQUEST WILL BE HELD HERE FRIDAY
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 Await Identification
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 BATTLE OF LIFE WAS HARD FOR MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 CANONSBURG’S DARKEST DAY
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 Children Show Nerve
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 CREPE STOLEN FROM HOUSE OF MOURNING
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 FLORISTS RUSHED WITH MANY ORDERS
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 Funeral of Frances Byrd
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 FUNERAL OF MOST OF THE VICTIMS TUESDAY
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 FUNERAL SERVICES OVER THREE VICTIMS
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 INJURED AT HOSPITAL ARE RECOVERING RAPIDLY
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 INTOXICATED GRAVEDIGGERS CAUSE DELAYS AT CEMETERIES
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 LAST OF INJURED TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 LITTLE DISORDER DURING TIME OF GREAT EXCITEMENT
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 MEMORIAL FOR THE DEAD IS SUGGESTED
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 OVERCOME WITH GRIEF
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 PITTSBURG NEWSPAPER MAN GIVES PRAISE TO NOTES
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 POSTOFFICE ORDERED CLOSED FOR FUNERALS
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 PRINCIPALS PRAISE THE DEAD CHILDREN
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 SHOCKED BY LIGHTNING
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 STORES AND OFFICES CLOSE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TOWN
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 UNDERTAKERS PRAISE THE CONDUCT OF BEREAVED
The Daily Notes -- August 29, 1911 Coroner’s Inquest Will be in Canonsburg
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 17 FUNERALS HELD ON DARKEST OF DAYS
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 BODY OF MURRAY HILL BURIED AT FREEPORT
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 CANONSBURG TRAGEDY NEARLY DUPLICATED AT MONONGAHELA
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 COLLEGE STREET MAN DID NOT HEAR NEWS UNTIL SUNDAY
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 CONDITIONS BECOMING NORMAL AFTER DAY OF MANY FUNERALS
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 DOUBLE FUNERAL IS HELD AT HOUSTON
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 FORMER RECTOR HERE EXTENDS SYMPATHY
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE MAKES CONSTRIBUTION OF $100
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 Reese Lost His Coat
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 SPEAK ON CANONSBURG'S SORROW
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 SUBPOENEAING WITTNESSES
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 Card of Thanks
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 GRAVE CLOSES OVER LAST OF VICTIMS
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 INQUIRY INTO GREAT TRAGEDY WILL BEGIN TOMORROW MORNING.
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 MEMORIAL SERVICES ABANDONED
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 Mr. Kelly Thanks His Friends
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 NEWSPAPER COMMENT ON THE CANONSBURG TRAGEDY
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 ROBERT MURRAY HILL
The Daily Notes -- August 31, 1911 WHEN DEATH SPREAD HIS WINGS OVER TOWN
The Daily Notes -- February 11, 1891 Morgan's New Opera House
The Daily Notes -- February 25, 1891 Stage Notes
The Daily Notes -- October 1, 1902 OPERA HOUSE OPENING WAS A GALA AFFAIR
The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 ACT OF ASSEMBLY GIVES AUTHORITY
The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 DELANEY URGES BOROUGH OFFICERS TO TAKE ACTION INSURING SAFETY
The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 Ferguson and State Factory Inspectors are Censured by Jury
The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 Jury Visits Opera House
The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 LEARNS OF TRAGEDY WHILE STOPPING IN BALTIMORE
The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 MANY WITNESSES TELL STORY OF DISASTER WHICH COST THE LIVES OF TWENTY-SIX PEOPLE
The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 OFFICIALS DENY THAT BODIES WERE ROBBED
The Daily Notes -- September 2, 1911 Canonsburg Has Heroic Men
The Daily Notes -- September 2, 1911 BORO OFFICERS ALLEGE WRONG INTERPRETATION
The Daily Notes -- September 2, 1911 Findings of the Coroner’s Jury
The Daily Notes -- September 2, 1911 RUMORS THAT DAMAGE SUITSS WILL BE FILED
The Daily Notes -- September 2, 1911 SHOULD HAVE BEEN MEANS OF ACCESS SEPARATE FROM EXIT (editorial from the Claysville Recorder)
The Daily Notes -- September 2, 1911 THE PANIC AT CANONSBURG (editorial from The Evening News Franklin, Pa.)
The Daily Notes -- September 4, 1911 FARMERS DECIDE TO ABANDON THE OPERA HOUSE
The Daily Notes -- September 5, 1911 Town Council Names Committee To Draw Up Amusement Ordinance
The Daily Notes -- September 6, 1911 ANGRY SPIRITS ARE CAUSE OF DISASTER, SAYS PROPHET
The Daily Notes -- Setember 2, 1911 Opera House Manager is Unequivocally Condemned
The Pittsburgh Sun
The Pittsburgh Sun -- August 28, 1911 INQUEST WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY
The Pittsburgh Sun -- August 28, 1911 MANAGEMENT IS ABSOLVED FROM BLAME
The Pittsburgh Sun -- August 28, 1911 MCKEESPORT WOMAN DIES IN MORGAN THEATER
The Pittsburgh Sun -- August 28, 1911 MOB MADDNESS IS BLAMED FOR BIG DISASTER
The Pittsburgh Sun -- August 28, 1911 State, County and Town Investigating Canonsburg Catastrophe While Funerals Pass Through Silent Streets.
The Pittsburgh Sun -- August 31, 1911 VALUABLES ARE MISSING SINCE BIG DISASTER
The Washington Observer
The Washington Observer -- August 28, 1911 Grim Ending of Romance
The Washington Observer -- August 28, 1911 Watch Scenes of Pictured Tragedy While Friends Perish Nearby
The Washington Observer -- August 29, 1911 LOWERING CLOUDS HOVER NEAR AS STRICKEN TOWN PAYS THE LAST TRIBUTE TO ITS DEAD
The Washington Observer -- August 31, 1911 TWO MORE VICTIMS ARE LAID TO REST
The Washington Reporter
The Washington Reporter -- August 28, 1911 CORONER HEARS FROM FACTORY INSPECTOR
The Washington Reporter -- August 28, 1911 WILL HOLD INQUEST FRIDAY MORNING
Washington Post
The Washington Post -- August 27, 1911 BOYS CAUSED PANIC
Places of Burial
Buried in Carbon Hill, Ohio
Buried in Castle Shannon, PA
Buried in Chartiers Hill Church Cemetery
Buried in Freeport, PA
Buried in Gaysport, Ohio
Buried in Hickory, PA
Buried in Hilman, PA
Buried in McKeesport, PA
Buried in Oak Spring Cemetery
Buried in Payne AME Cemetery
Buried in Saint Patrick Cemetery
Buried in Speer Spring Cemetery
Test
Various Reports of Who Started The Panic
The Daily Notes -- August 30, 1911 Blaming the People -- Why?
Morgan Building
Buried in Hickory, PA
George Kay
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