Alice

“Can you sum it up in a few words?” Paul took a breath, bracing himself for his friend’s reaction. “My apartment building might be haunted.” Mike looked at Paul for a moment, then nodded. “Okay, now can you sum it up for me in a lot more words?”
― David Longhorn, Rookwood Asylum

“And that was when the massive crowd in the Iroquois Theater auditorium began to panic.”
― Troy Taylor, One Afternoon at the Iroquois

“If anyone here is alive,” he called out again, “groan or make some sound and we’ll take you out.” He looked around the auditorium, taking in the burned seats, the blackened walls, the twisted piles of debris on the stage, and the smoldering bodies of the dead. But the devastated Iroquois Theater was silent.”
― Troy Taylor, One Afternoon at the Iroquois

“Dresses, jackets, trousers, and other articles of clothing were ripped to shreds as people tried to get through to the exits and escape the flames and smoke. When the crowd reached the doors, they found many of them locked. The locking mechanisms had been so confusing to the staff that they had not tried to open them before they fled. Other doors couldn’t be opened. They had been designed to swing inward rather than outward, and the crush of people prevented those in the front from pulling the doors open.”
― Troy Taylor, One Afternoon at the Iroquois