Theatre Royal disaster

When

1849

Kind

Crowd crush

Coordinates

55.86° N, 4.25° W

Description

crowd crush in Glasgow, 1849

Date from

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Crowd crush in Glasgow, 1849

On 19 February 1849, a crowd crush occurred at the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow when audience members rushed to escape the building during a fire. While the fire itself was extinguished quickly, building occupants on the lower floors who observed commotion above them in the upper gallery did not realize this and rushed for exits.

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