One hundred and forty years ago, Brooklyn Theatre attendees experienced true hell on Earth just weeks shy of Christmas the night of Dec. 5, 1876.
A series of daunting events struck the 400-seat operahouse toward the evening's sold-out play "The Two Orphans," resulting in a sum of over 278 people dead and a reported 103 bodies left unidentified in debris, as reported by the Daily News at the time.
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