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100 1 _aAdam, L.
245 1 4 _aDie Wiener Schreckensnacht vom 8. December 1881
246 1 _aDie Wiener Schreckensnacht vom 8. Dezember 1881
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-16
508 _aRichard Illner, Alpo Tiilikka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Austrian National Library)
520 _a"Die Wiener Schreckensnacht vom 8. December 1881" by L. Adam is an illustrated memorial booklet written in the late 19th century. It documents the Vienna Ringtheater fire, narrating the sudden outbreak during a performance, the ensuing chaos, the mix of failed and brave rescue efforts, and the somber civic response, with proceeds dedicated to widows and orphans. The opening of the booklet moves from editorial notes and a dedication into a vivid, hour-by-hour chronicle of the day: routine preparations at the Ringtheater, eager crowds, then a sudden blaze erupting from the stage, a blackout, panic, and a deadly crush on the dark stairways. Initial official assurances that “everyone escaped” are contradicted by eyewitness pleas and, later, by grim discoveries of stacked bodies in the galleries and stairwells, detailed in the rescue account of Graf Lamezan. Scenes of desperate balcony jumps into a rescue cloth, too-short ladders, and harrowing images of burned and asphyxiated victims are interwoven with testimonies from survivors and a performer describing likely causes (ignited scenery or gas flare). The section closes with the transport of the dead to the police courtyard and hospital, the city’s stunned public, frantic searches for missing loved ones, and immediate political and municipal reactions, including calls for stricter theater safety and outrage over unlit emergency lamps. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cWien: Aux Trois François, 1882
653 _aRingtheater (Vienna, Austria) -- Fire, 1881
856 4 _uhttps://digital.onb.ac.at/OnbViewer/viewer.faces?doc=ABO_%2BZ29968270X
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77474
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