{"id":984140,"date":"2021-11-08T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=984140"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:29:31","slug":"this-was-not-a-concert-this-was-a-fight-for-survival-travis-scott-concertgoers-speak-of-horror-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-was-not-a-concert-this-was-a-fight-for-survival-travis-scott-concertgoers-speak-of-horror-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Was Not A Concert. This Was A Fight For Survival\u2019: Travis Scott Concertgoers Speak Of Horror Stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-was-not-a-concert-this-was-a-fight-for-survival-travis-scott-concertgoers-speak-of-horror-stampede%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=984140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the aftermath of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/8-confirmed-dead-at-music-festival-after-crowd-surged-toward-stage-during-rapper-travis-scotts-set\">tragic events<\/a> at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, where rapper Travis Scott performed and at least eight people between the ages of 14-27 &nbsp;died and others were injured, some of the attendees voiced their horror at what they witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked to see people act so inconsiderate and feral,\u201d one attendee recalled. \u201cIt was insane to see so many just run others over like wild animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/06\/us\/what-is-a-crowd-surge\/index.html\">report from CNN<\/a>, some attendees spoke of the terrible events of Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>TK Tellez, 20, stated: \u201cThe crowd became tighter and tighter, and at that point it was hard to breathe. When Travis came out performing his first song, I witnessed people passing out next to me. \u2026 We were all screaming for help, and no one helped or heard us. It was horrifying. People were screaming for their lives, and they couldn\u2019t get out. Nobody could move a muscle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tellez fell after others had fallen on him. \u201cEverybody was crying; it was the scariest sound I\u2019ve ever heard. Imagine listening to Travis Scott and people screaming for their lives at the same time,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cThere was just not enough people to help everyone \u2026 Travis Scott would have a short time in between songs, and we would scream our vocal chords out so someone could hear us but nobody did. This year\u2019s festival will be stuck with me forever. I\u2019ve never seen someone die in front of my eyes. It was horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Selena Beltran said the crush of people got tighter and tighter as Scott neared the stage and she had trouble breathing. She continued, \u201cI fell backwards and it felt like it was the end for me. To think that\u2019s how I\u2019ll die, I was so scared. I did not know what to do. It was all happening so fast, but so slow and I couldn\u2019t react. I just screamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beltran noted that some people had lost consciousness and were trampled nevertheless. She said, \u201cI was shocked to see people act so inconsiderate and feral. It was insane to see so many just run others over like wild animals. People did not care, they still tried to squeeze through just to get to the front without thinking of the consequences and who it would affect. \u2026 I looked around and just saw people stare and others continuing to enjoy themselves as if these people meant nothing. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the tragic events at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, where rapper Travis Scott performed and at least eight people between the ages of 14-27 \u00a0died and others were injured, some of the attendees voiced their horror at what they witnessed.\u201cI was shocked to see people act so inconsiderate and feral,\u201d one attendee recalled. \u201cIt was insane to see so many just run others over like wild animals.\u201dIn a report from CNN, some attendees spoke of the terrible events of Friday night.TK Tellez, 20, stated: \u201cThe crowd became tighter and tighter, and at that point it was hard to breathe. When Travis came out performing his first song, I witnessed people passing out next to me. \u2026 We were all screaming for help, and no one helped or heard us. It was horrifying. People were screaming for their lives, and they couldn\u2019t get out. Nobody could move a muscle.\u201dTellez fell after others had fallen on him. \u201cEverybody was crying; it was the scariest sound I\u2019ve ever heard. Imagine listening to Travis Scott and people screaming for their lives at the same time,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cThere was just not enough people to help everyone \u2026 Travis Scott would have a short time in between songs, and we would scream our vocal chords out so someone could hear us but nobody did. This year\u2019s festival will be stuck with me forever. I\u2019ve never seen someone die in front of my eyes. It was horrific.\u201dSelena Beltran said the crush of people got tighter and tighter as Scott neared the stage and she had trouble breathing. She continued, \u201cI fell backwards and it felt like it was the end for me. To think that\u2019s how I\u2019ll die, I was so scared. I did not know what to do. It was all happening so fast, but so slow and I couldn\u2019t react. I just screamed.\u201dBeltran noted that some people had lost consciousness and were trampled nevertheless. She said, \u201cI was shocked to see people act so inconsiderate and feral. It was insane to see so many just run others over like wild animals. People did not care, they still tried to squeeze through just to get to the front without thinking of the consequences and who it would affect. \u2026 I looked around and just saw people stare and others continuing to enjoy themselves as if these people meant nothing. It felt like there was little humanity in that crowd.\u201dShe later witnessed media transporting people. \u201cI knew they had passed away. I could not sleep last night. The moment kept replaying in my mind over and over again,\u201d she said.Billy Nasser, who said he works as a disc jockey, said, \u201cI picked some kid up and his eyes rolled to the back of his head, so I checked his pulse. I knew he was dead. I checked the people around me. And I just had to leave him there, there was nothing I could do. I had to keep going. \u2026 Kids were dropping left and right. \u2026 There wasn\u2019t enough security guards and there wasn\u2019t enough EMTs and people helping out the crowd. The paramedics couldn\u2019t even reach the crowd.\u201dMadeline Eskins, an ICU nurse, told CNN of Scott, \u201cHe started a countdown about 30 minutes before he performed \u2014 he started a timer on the big screen. \u2026 And all of a sudden, people compressed up against each other and were pushing forward and backward. As the timer got closer to coming down to zero, it just \u2014 it got worse and worse.\u201d She said the crowd squeezed her so hard that she lost consciousness, but before she did she asked her boyfriend to tell her son she loved him. She stated, \u201cI\u2019ve been to concerts and, yes, it gets tight, but I\u2019ve never felt like I was going to pass out. I never saw people collapsing. I definitely never saw anybody die.\u201dJeffrey Schmidt said people fell on him and his legs got stuck under other people. \u201cAt that moment my mind went into full survival mode,\u201d he said. \u201cAll I could hear was people screaming and crying for help. I lost all hope and thought I was going to die right there because I could not get my legs out. I fought for my life. I thought I was never going to see my best friend again, life did not feel real. He concluded, \u201cThis was not a concert; this was a fight for survival.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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