'People Are Dying': Witnesses Describe the Horror of Astroworld Tragedy in Houston

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Noah Shachtman
@NoahShachtman
“Fans were yelling at the stage crew around us, saying stop the concert, people are dying. No one listened.” #AstroWorld

The crowd watches as Travis Scott performs at Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 in Houston. Several people died and numerous others were injured in what officials described as a surge of the crowd at the music festival while Scott was performing. Officials declared a “mass casualty incident” just after 9 p.m. Friday during the festival where an estimated 50,000 people were in attendance, Housto…

'People Are Dying': Witnesses Describe the Horror of Astroworld Tragedy in Houston
Fans screamed for help and made pleas to "stop the show" amid a crowd surge during Travis Scott’s Astroworld Fest set Friday night.
rollingstone.com
8:53 AM · Nov 6, 2021

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eyewitnesses-astroworld-houston-travis-scott-1254208/

Fans screamed for help and made pleas to “stop the show” amid a crowd surge during Travis Scott’s Astroworld Fest set Friday night that left at least eight people dead and hundreds more injured.

Following the incident, accounts and video flooded onto social media about what people experienced during the stampede-like atmosphere, as well as the futile attempts to stop the concert in order to allow the injured people — trapped within the mass of people — receive the help they required.

Madeline Eskins, an attendee and an ICU nurse, told Rolling Stone on Saturday morning, “It was definitely overcrowded. It was insane, honestly. I knew it was just way too crowded – it just got worse and worse as i got closer to Travis Scott performing it got more crowded, more crowded, more crowded.”

“Fans were recording the concert and people doing CPR,” Eskins added. “Fans were yelling at the stage crew around us, saying stop the concert, people are dying. No one listened.”

Eskins, attending her third Astroworld fest, told Rolling Stone that, in the initial crowd surge at around 9 p.m., “I looked at my boyfriend and I was about to tell my boyfriend to tell my son i loved him because I did not think i would make it out of there. And I fainted,” Eskins said. “I tried to jump up as much as i could to get air. I couldn’t breathe. I just felt it. I knew it was coming.”

*snip*

[Nevilledog]

1. MSNBC report

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/at-least-eight-dead-dozens-injured-after-panic-at-houston-s-astroworld-music-festival-125576261503?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

[Me.]

2. Attending An Event With 50,000 & Few If Any Handlers

is risky to begin with

[MagickMuffin]

3. Not a mask in sight

There may be more deaths on the way because of no masks.

I must consider myself lucky as I used to make my way through crowds to get to the front of stages. I never crushed anyone on my way.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I made it right to the stage a couple of times

but it was a much smaller venue and nobody gave consideration to that possibility back then, before that tragic incident in Cincinnati at The Who concert.

[MagickMuffin]

6. Yeah the venues I went to weren't huge crowds, but no one rushed the stages.

And if it was a large venue it was usually in a convention center type building with seating.


One time we were attending a Fixx concert at Six Flags. My group was at the back of the crowd and I decided to get closer to the stage (I was actually being pulled by the sound, long story) so I made my way through the crowd looking at the patterns I saw to get as close as I could. My mates followed along and we made it to the front without crushing anyone. I'm a rather short and petite person so I was on the move!

[EYESORE 9001]

7. The times I made it to the stage

people weren't ‘rushing’ the stage. Everybody was already on the floor, just milling about. It was a matter of matriculating to the front, and there wasn’t any jostling to accomplish it.

[BannonsLiver]

5. I bet Kylie Jenner dumps him quick

This is bad for the Kardashian brand. Kris has probably already given the order. Such horrible, disgusting people.

[BlackSkimmer]

8. That concert should have been shut down immediately.

He didn’t care.

He’s been involved in a lot of out of control crowd incidents. Guess he thinks it makes him cool.

[Takket]

9. 8 people are dead but People magazine focuses on what really matters.....

Link to tweet

?s=20