Here is a look back on how some of the biggest concert tragedies in the U.S. unfolded. Show
It was hailed as the Woodstock of the West, featuring the Rolling Stones, Santana, Nash & Young and the Grateful Dead. But a heady combination of drugs, overcrowding and a motorcycle gang serving as security caused this rock concert at a race track near Tracy, California to degenerate into astonishing violence that ended in four deaths on Dec. 6, 1969. During a closing act by the Rolling Stones, teenager Meredith Curley Hunter, Jr. was stabbed and beaten to death by a Hells Angels member working security after Hunter began waving a revolver erratically near the stage. Two other people died in hit-and-run accidents, and one person drowned in a canal after taking LSD, the Lodi News-Sentinel reported. 9. Alrosa Villa Nightclub, 2004Former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was murdered in a mass shooting on Dec. 8, 2004 by a 25-year-old attendee who walked onto the concert stage at the Columbus, Ohio nightclub. The assailant shot Abbott in the head before opening fire on the audience of 200 people, killing three others, reported The Columbus Dispatch. TRAGIC HISTORY: Astroworld Festival the latest in a line of global concert tragedies. 8. Indiana State Fair, 2011Right before an outdoor concert in Indianapolis on Aug. 13, 2011 featuring country band Sugarland, gusts of wind from an encroaching thunderstorm collapsed the stage's temporary roof onto the waiting crowd. Pinned under twisted metal, seven people died and 58 were injured, reported the Indianapolis Star. 7. Astroworld Festival, 2021Shortly before Travis Scott's 9 p.m. performance on Friday night, a chaotic crowd began rushing toward the stage, crushing people against security barriers. Several people fell under the stamping crowd as attendees choked and struggled to breathe. So far, eight people are confirmed dead in a mass casualty event that sent 17 people to hospitals, with at least 11 suffering cardiac arrest. SAFETY WOES: Astroworld Festival concert producer has history of OSHA violations This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  Landon White places a shirt at a memorial for those who died at the Astroworld music festival the night before, on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at NRG Park in Houston. Jon Shapley/Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessA drone image of the stage that Travis Scott was performing on during his Astroworld event when the crowd surged and caused fatalities and injuries the night before in Houston on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessPeople walk past a sign announcing Astroworld is canceled outside NRG in Houston on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. What was suppose to be a two-day festival was cut short after eight deaths and multiple injuries during Travis Scott’s concert. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographerShow MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows the stage where Travis Scott performed Fri. night at the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Sat. Nov. 6, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows the area in front of the stage Saturday, where Travis Scott performed at the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows the stage where Travis Scott performed Fri. night at the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Saturday, November 6, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRKShow MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows the stage where Travis Scott performed Fri. night at the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Sat., November 6, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows the triage area using during Astroworld at NRG park Sat. Nov 6, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows the triage area at NRG Stadium during the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows emergency vehicles at NRG Stadium during the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows an aerial view of Travis Scott performing at NRG Stadium during the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows an aerial view at NRG Stadium during the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows emergency vehicles leave NRG Stadium during the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows emergency vehicles at NRG Stadium during the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow LessA still pulled from KTRK video shows an aerial view at NRG Stadium during the Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Eight people are dead and dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott's performance late Friday. Courtesy/KTRK Show MoreShow Less6. "The Who" Concert, 1979During their US tour, British rock band The Who was set to perform in Cincinnati on Dec. 3, 1979 for a sold-out stadium of 18,000 fans. As people waited to enter, the band's soundcheck was mistaken by the crowd outside as the start of the show. The resulting stampede by anxious fans killed 11 people and injured 26 others. 5. Gulliver's Nightclub, 1974A fire that was set to cover up a burglary in a Port Chester, New York bowling alley spread to a neighboring nightclub hosting a concert by rock band The Creation. Though lead singer George Chase calmly announced there was a fire and asked everyone to exit, the crowd of 200 struggled to leave the building as flames and smoke rapidly filled the subterranean club. The fire caused 24 deaths and 32 injuries, reported the New York Times. 4. Route 91 Harvest Festival, 2017The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history occurred on Oct. 1, 2017, when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,000 bullets at attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas from a 32nd floor window of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The sound of live fire was initially mistaken by fans as part of country singer Jason Aldean's performance. Sixty people died and over 400 were wounded by gunfire, with the total injured rising to 867 in the resulting panic, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal. 3. The Station Nightclub, 2003Stage pyrotechnics ignited soundproofing foam lining a nightclub in Warwick, Rhode Island during a performance by rock band Great White. The blaze rapidly accelerated, burning everything combustible in the club. Smoke filled the room, spawning a stampede that killed 100 people and inflicted over 200 injuries, reported the Associated Press. 2. Beverly Hills Supper Club, 1977A wedding, a Cabaret show, and a fine dining event collided into the third-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. On May 28, 1977, a fire started at this Southgate, Kentucky club during a performance by Hollywood actor John Davidson. Over 3,000 people were in the building, far exceeding the occupancy limit. The fire caused 165 deaths, reported the Cincinnati Enquirer. 1. Rhythm Club, 1940One of the worst building fires in U.S. history occurred in Jim Crow-era Natchez, Mississippi on April 23, 1940. The Rhythm Club hosted jazz musician Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians for an audience of over 700 people. A fire near the entrance rapidly ignited decorative Spanish moss on the ceiling sprayed with a flammable pesticide. Most of the club's windows had been boarded up to stop people from listening in on the concert, trapping the audience inside. Over 200 people died in the fire, many burned alive. All of the victims were African American. Authorities struggled to identify the remains and many were buried in mass graves, reported the Natchez Democrat. |
What concert had the most deaths
Postagens relacionadas
direito autoral © 2024 comojogaruno Inc.
