Episode 51: The Shiloh Baptist Church crush

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🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When the woman cried out, what she said was, "Fight!" But what the congregation of Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, heard that Friday night in 1902 was, "Fire!" The panicked crowd rushed for the front door, and within ten minutes dozens would die - all because of a misheard word.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matteris, and before I get started today, I just like to take care of some housekeeping.
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0:55.6	And as always, the sources for each new episode can be found at disaster areapodcast.wordpress.com. I'd also like to issue a bit of a warning. Given the time
1:03.5	period of this particular disaster, the word Negro is used a lot to describe black people.
1:08.9	I may make mention of it, but only as part of its contemporary
1:12.5	usage. And with that in mind, thank you very much for listening to the podcast, and welcome to
1:19.3	Disaster Area.
1:34.7	Episode 51, the Shiloh Baptist Church Stampede. September 19, 1902.
1:47.0	115 deceased, multiple injuries. If you've learned anything from this podcast, you should know by now that I like highlighting disasters which have slipped through the cracks. The disaster featured in this episode doesn't have a lot of sources.
1:52.0	I could only find a handful just enough to count on one hand.
1:58.0	I'd never even heard of this disaster before the past week, and it's probably
2:03.2	likely you haven't either. But like a lot of disasters I cover, I found this one by skimming
2:09.1	through the lists of deadliest disasters on Wikipedia. Weird hobby, I know. After telling
2:15.5	the story of Lens of Flight 508, I actually went looking for a sporting disaster,
2:19.6	which something about the plane crash reminded me of. I couldn't find a lot on it. So I kept moving
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