t too turned and looked into the front room , at which point someone gasped aloud , and the crowd parted , people falling to the left and the right of the door , in apparent fear a red-haired man stood in the doorway , slightly to my left , facing into the room and as i watched with sickening horror , he lifted a pistol with his right hand and fired it the deafening report shook the house panic ensued the air was filled with screams someone had fallen by the front door , and the others simply ran over the poor devil people were struggling to escape back through the hall .