What is the mob mentality presented by james thurber in the story of the day the dam broke?
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The residents of western side in the Columbus city were as safe as kittens under a cook stove. In spite of it, the safety did not reduce in the least the fine disappointment and strange desperation which seized upon the’ residents of the East side suddenly when the cry of the crowds spread like a grass fire that the’ dam had broken. The city of Columbus that day the dam had broken. Business was going on briskly as usual in High Street, the main center of trade. Suddenly people left their work and they started running towards East to save their lives. Within ten minutes everybody on High Street, from the Union Depot to the Courthouse was running. Two thousand people were abruptly in full flight. ‘Go East’ was that arose. Men and women, old and young were all running away from the West side to the East side, and thought that the East side was away from the Ohio River. Everybody was crying “Go East” because the East side was out of danger.