bedlam

noun, a scene of uproar and confusion (COD)

“All of a sudden a kid comes running in and, ‘Pa said you gotta come quick! Aunt Sarah, baby’s coming!’ So Nancy’s hitching up the team ’cause this is what she did. And Tom’s coming in and, ‘Where are the kids?’ and all bedlam, and nobody to take the lines — she’s got sheets out on the line, and he’s got smoke coming out of the stack … And off she goes, chickens and kids all flying after her.”