THE NEW YORK CLIPPER ALMANAC.
 

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DESTRUCTION  OF PLACES OF AMUSEMENT.
 

COMPILED FOR THE NEW YORK  CLIPPER ALMANAC.
 

When not otherAvise specified, fire is meant. The
list, though larger than ever before published, is ne¬
cessarily incomplete. Our readers who have cogniz¬
ance of local fires not mentioned below Avill oblige by
acquainting us with the facts.
 

Augusta, Ga.—Theatre, April 3, 1829......Lamb's Theatre,

Nov. 30, 1831.

Albany, N. Y.—Theatre, April 24,1835; building saved......

Museum, March 2, 1839; greatlv damaged.....Academy

of Music, Jan. 29, 1868......Martin Hall, March 11, 1872.

.....Adelphi (formerly Capitol), Dec. 8, 1876.

Amsterdam, Holland.—Flemi.sh Theatre, May 15, 1772;
from thirty to one hundred and fifty persons supposed
to have perished,

Atlanta, Ga.—Davis' Hall (theatre). May 28, 1869.

Athol, Mas.s.—Music Hall, April 9, 1876.

Boston.—Federal-street, Feb   2, 1798.......Howard Athe-

n«um, Feb. 25, 1846......National, Nov. 28, 1848—in¬
cendiary, but not   much   damaged;   destroyed   April

22,18,52; again  March 24,  1863......Bowen's Museum,

Jan. 15, 1803; again Jan. 16, 1807 (six killed by falling

walls).....Morris, Pell & Trowbridge's Music Hall, about

1862......Adelphi, Feb. 4, 1871......Buckleys' Minstrel

Hall, Nov, 9, 1872......Globe, May .30,1873,

Burlington, la,—Palmer's (uncompleted) Opera-house,
June 19, 187.3.

Brooklyn.—Circus, in 1828.....Hooley'sOpera-hou.se, May

12,1865......Theatre, Dec. .5, 1876; fire communicated

to borders by border-lights, and spread Avith amazing
rapidity; about300persons lost their lives, inclusive of
the well-known actors H. S. Murdoch and Claude Bur¬
roughs, and four or five stage-hands or supernumeraries.

Bristol, Eng.—New Theatre Royal, Dec, 27,1869; a woman
falls in the entrance way, and in the panic  eighteen

fiersons are killed.......Alhambra Music Hall, June 23,
874.

Baltimore.—Front-street, Feb. 3, 1838......Amphitheatre,

Jan., 1838......HoUiday-street, Sept. 10,1873......Amer¬
ican,   Dec.   12,   1873.......Theatre Comique (formerly

Museum), Dec. 12, 1873......Opera-house (variety), Oct.

13, 1874.......Old "Mud" Theatre, June 22,1876.

Buffalo, N. Y,—Eagle-street, May 4, 1852......St. James

Hall, about 1859.

Breslau, Prussia.—Stadt, June 13, 1871.

Brest, France.—Theatre, March 20, 1866.

.Brussels, Belgium.—Theatre des Nouveautes, about 1859;
rebuilt, and opened Oct. 1,1862, as Theatre Seraphim.j

Brooksville, Pa.—Opera-house, Nov. 20, 1874.

Bethlehem, Pa.—Hildenberger's Opera-house, Feb. 10,
1874.

Birmingham, Eng.—Theatre, Aug. 17, 1792; again Jan. 7,
1820.

Biddeford, Me.—Shaw's Hall May 28,1872.

Brighton, Eng.—Royal Pavilion, May 13, 1863; gas-explo¬
sion ; no serious damage.

Carlsruhe, Germany.—Grand Ducal, Feb. 28, 1847; thirty
lives lost.

Cologne, Germany.—Grand Theatre, Feb. 16, 1869; nine
killed......Flora, about May, 1869.

Cheltenham, Eng.—Wellington Hall, June 16,1874.

Chicago, 111.—Rice's Theatre, 1850 or 1851......Oct. 8-9,

1871, McVicker's, Dearborn, Olympic, Hooley's and
Crosby's Opera-house—in fact, every theatre in that
city, except the Globe, which Avas burned April 27,1874.
......Adelphi, July 14,1874.

Cincinnati, O.—Lippincott's Amphitheatre, in 1830; never

opened......Caldwell's, Oct. 21, 1836.....Old American,

Sept. 22,1842......Shires' Museum, July 15-16, 1851.....

People's, June 13,1856___RockAvell's American Theatre,

1856.....Pike's Opera-house, March 22,1866___Academy

of Music, about July 12,1866.......Winter Garden, Dec.

7, 1370......Robinson's Opera-house, Feb. 5, 1876; false

alarm; several killed, and many others injured.

Charleston, S. C—Theatre, April 27,1838......Charleston,

burned during the war, 1861-5.

Columbia, Ind.—Crump's Opera-house, Jan. 29, 1874.

Columbus, O.—Theatre, in 1850.

Cleveland,   O.—Theatre,   in   1850......Brainard's  Hall,

March 3,1855; damage slight.

Cheyenne, Wy. T.—McDaniel's, July 4,1875.

Cape Town, Cape G. H.—Theatre Royal, Jan. 17, 1868.

City OF Mexico.—Chiarini's Circus,  March 22, 1866......

Theatre de la Zaruella, Nov. 2,1874; many persons in¬
jured by being trampled upon.

Detroit, Mich.—Theatre, June or July, 1856......Olympic,

Jan. 23, 1869.

Dubuque, la.—People's, May 26, 1859.

Dayton, O.—Turner's Opera-house, May 16, 1869.

Durham, Eng.—Theatre Royal, March 11, 1869.

Dresden, Germany.—Court Theatre, Sept, 21, 1869.

DUNKIRQUE, France.—Circus; about December, 1869; 160
persons precipitated by giving-way of flooring.

Exeter, Eng.—Theatre, March 6,1820.

Edinburgh, Scotland.—Adelphi, May 24,1853......Theatre
 

Royal, Jan. 13,1865; eight persons killed by a falling:
wall while endeavoring to rescue others; again, Feb. 6,

1876......Music Hall, Jan. 8, 1870; gas explosion, and

panic.

Elmira, N. Y.—Mechanics' Hall, Oddfellows' Hall, and

Pattinson's Hall (German Theatre), Dec. 23,1866.......

Ely Hall, Nov. 29,1867.

Galveston, Texas.—Theatre, Dec. 2, 1869.

Grand Rapids, Mich.—Squier's Opera-house, May 8, 1872.

Glasgow,  Scotland.—Theatre, 1792; Jan., 1829; Feb. 17,
1849, seventy  persons crushed to death because of a

false alarm  of fire;  burned again Jan. 31, 1863.....

Prince of Wales, Jan, 14, 1869......Alexandra, May 25,

1870......Cooke's Circus, Jail square, probably about

1849......Scotia Music Hall, May 6, 1874.

Great Grimsby, Eng.—Humber Music Hall, Sept. 11,1870,

Hull, Eng.—Theatre, in 1859......Theatre Royal, Feb. 6,

1869.

Hamburg, Germany.—Theatre burned in a general confla¬
gration. May 4, 5, 6, 1842.

Helena, Mont. Ter.—Variety, Nov. 7, 1869.

Indianapolis, Ind.—Opera-house, Jan. 17, 1870.

London, Eng.—Shakespeare's Globe, June 29,1613; from ten

to tAventy liA-es  lost......Fortune Theatre, Dec. 9,1621.

......Blackfriars',  Nov. 5,  1623; about eighty persons

killed......Italian  Opera-house,  June 17, 1789; rebuilt,

and as Queen's Theatre burned Dec. 6, 1867......Pan¬
theon, Jan. 14, 1792......Haymarket, Feb. 3, 1794; sti-

teen killed and many wounded in a crush during royal

vLsit.......Goodman's   Fields,   June,  1803.......Circus

(now Surrey Theatre), Aug. 12, 1805......Sadler's Welk,

Oct. 15,1807; false alarm, eighteen persons trampled to

death......Royalty, April 11, 1826..... Brunswick, Feb.

29,1828; walls fell in; twelve per.sans lost their Ua'cx.

......Lyceum, Feb.   16, 1832......Drury-lane,  January,

1672; again Feb. 24, 1809......Covent-garden,  Sept. 20,

1808—tAventy killed; scene-room in 1839, audience great¬
ly alarmed; theatre again burned March 6, 1856......

Astley's Amphitheatre, Sept. 17, 1794;   Sept,   1,  1803*

June 8,1341......Surrey, Jan. 30-31,1866; Sept. 29,186S

—.slight damage......Olympic, March 29, 1849......Pa¬
vilion, Feb.  13,1836......Coburg (now Victoria), Dec

27, 1858; sixteen killed during an alarm of fire......

Surrey Music Hall, Oct. 19, 1866—false alarm, eighfc
killed   and   thirty  wounded;   burned   June   11,   186L

......Standard, Oct. 21,1866......English Opera-house

(now Lyceum), Feb. 16, 1830......Her Majesty's, Dec. &,

1867......Lang's Music Hall, July 31,1868; twenty-three

killed and many others Avounded during an alarm (£

fire......South London Music Hall, March 28,1869......

Oxford Music Hall, Oct. 3, 1872.

Louisville,   Ky.—City   Theatre, in  1843......Theatre of

Varieties, Jan. 14,  1845......Theatre, Oct. 12, 1866......

Vaudeville, March 29, 1874; again May 26, 1876.

Leeds, Eng.—Prince of Wales' Music Hall, May 26, 1868.

Lowell, Mass.—Museum, Sept.  30, 1855;   again Jan. 30,
1856......Merrimack Hall, about Jan., 1866; rebuilt.

Leavenworth, Kan.—Union, July 14, 1868.

Lafayette, Ind.—Theatre, March 18,1850.....Opera-hou,se,

Dec. 24, 1869.

Lincoln, Neb,—Hallo's Opera-hou.se, Oct. 4, 1876.

Liverpool, Eng.—Sam Hague's Minstrel Hall, May 1, 1«75;
rebuilt and opened May 1,1876.

Manchester, Eng.—Theatre, June 18-19, 1789; May 7,1844.

......Victoria Music Hall, July 31, 1868; false alarm of

fire; twenty-three killed, and several seriously injured.

Millerstown, Pa.—Opera-house, April 1, 1874,

Mobile, Ala.—Theatre, March 1,1829; March 10, 1830; Feb.
6, 1838......State-street, Nov. 13,1842; also in May, 1860.

Melbourne,   Australia.—Varieties  Concert Hall, July 5,
1870.

Middlesborough, Eng.—Royal Theatre, Jan. 1, 1868; need¬
less panic.

Memphis, Tenn.—Theatre  damaged, Jan.,  1853.......Old

Theatre (D, T. Ash, manager), about 1865.

Muskegon, Mich.—Academy of Music, March 29,1874.

Milwaukee, Wis.—Rice's Theatre, in 1853.....Gaiety, Nov-

16,1869; two persons burned to death, and about twenty
badly injured.

Metz,   Germany.—Theatre, Aug., 1796;   seventy  persons
killed.

Marysville, Cal,—Theatre, Nov. 17, 1864.

MoNTPKLiER, France.—Theatrical booth fell down, July 31,
1786: five hundred persons killed.

New York.—Park, May 25,1820; again, Dec. 16, 1848......

BoAvery, May 24, 1828; Sept. 22, 1836; Feb. 18,1838; April

25, 1845......Niblo's Garden, Sept. 18,1846; May 6, 1872.

..... Lafayette, April 11,1829......Mt. Pitt Circus, April

10,1829......National, Sept. 23, 1829; May 28, 1841......

Wood's Opera-house, Dec. 20, 1854......Vauxhall Gar¬
den, Aug. 30, 1808......Tripler HaU, Jan. 8, 1854........

Crystal  Palace, Oct.  5,  1868......Barnum's   Museum,

Ann street and BroadAvay, July 13, 1865; near Spring
street, on Broadway, March 3, 1868; Circus and Men¬
agerie (Fourteenth'street), Dec. 24, 1872......Butler's

American, Feb, 15, 1866......Academy of Music, May 21,

22,1866......New Bowery, Dec. 18, 1866.....Winter Gar¬
den, March 23,1867......Mechanics' Hall, April 8, 1868.

.....Theatre Comique, Dec 4,1868; partially......Kel¬
ly & Leon's, Nov. 28,1872.....Daly's Fifth-avenue, Jan.

1,1873......Tony Pastor's, 585 Broadway, Dec. 28,1876;

damaged by water......White's Melodeon, March 1%

\      1848—damaged; destroyed, May 20,18i9.