{"id":117,"date":"2009-01-30T03:53:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T03:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-01-30T03:53:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T03:53:23","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-29-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 29, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Crushing Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of children crowded into the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal on January 9, 1927, eagerly anticipating the matinee performance of a comedy titled Get \u2018Em Young. Shortly after the movie began, a small fire broke out in the projection room, but was quickly brought under control. The incident would have ended there had not children seated in the gallery panicked. Rushing to get out, a few youngsters apparently fell as they rushed down a stairway from the gallery. What followed was a deadly chain reaction. Other children toppled onto them, while the frightened crowd continued pushing forward. Within seconds, the stairwell became a mass of tightly packed, screaming children hopelessly trapped\u2014just five steps away from the exit. When help arrived, the children were so tightly wedged in that twenty men working together could not separate the pile of bodies. Firemen finally resorted to chopping holes from underneath the stairs and through an outer wall. By then, the most of the youngsters they freed had died in the crush. Only one of the 78 victims was over sixteen years old. <\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006095745X\/theasylumeclecti\">The Pessimist&#8217;s Guide To History<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Bendy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Crushing Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Hundreds of children crowded into the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal on January 9, 1927, eagerly anticipating the matinee performance of a comedy titled Get \u2018Em Young. Shortly after the movie began, a small fire broke out in the projection room, but was quickly brought under control. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}