The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-12-31
SIX HUNDRED
WERE KILLED
Believed Number of Victims Of
Chicago Holocaust Will
Easily Reach this Figure
564 DEAD IN THE MORGUES
One Hundred and Fifty-seveD
Injured, of Whom One
third Will Die, Mis-
sing Are 314.

Chicago, Dec. 31.-Today brought
with it only the legacy Of yesterdays
monumental calamity and the predic-
ton that the list of fatalities in the
Iroauois fire will run over 900 when
information is complete.
The latest statement Of dead at the
morgues is 564, and it is stated at the
various hospitals and hotels to which
the injured were removed that of the
157 people who are injured probably
one-third cannot live. The missing
are estimated at 314, but it was expect
ed that many of these would be ac-
counted for, or probably a large ma
iority of them. No additional bodies
were found today in the ruins of the
theater.
II is no extravaganza of language to
say that the city is stunned by the
Overwhelming tragedy which was en-
acted when the theater which housed
'Mr. Blue Beard" became chamber
of horrors indeed. There is the deep
est of woe in hundreds of Chicago
homes today, deep sorrow in thous-
and others and a pity beyond the po-
tency of words to convey in ALL
| The first streak of daylight which
shone ON the snow covered streets
found the morgues still the sorrow
haunted center of many a searcher.
There were husbands looking for their
wives, wives searching for husbands,
ifrenzied parents seeking their child
| ren, SO many of whom lost their lives,
land in so many instances wild-eyed
children still dazed from the horrors
of their experience CROPPED distressedly
about in search of father or mother.
Possibly nothing could better typi-
| fly the depth Of the sympathy which
| is felt for those who suffered directly
by the calamity than the action of the
striking livery drivers. By a vote,
which was without dissenting voice,
it was decided to establish truce of
l10 days. President Albert Young, of
1
the union following the meeting issued
the following:
owing to the great disaster to the
public caused by the fire at the Iro-
quois theater, l do hereby declare g
truce in the present strike of under
takers and livery drivers for 10 days
and do further request that every mar
now on strike report at once to thu
respective places of employment ant
do everything in his power to assis
his employer in carrying for the want
of the public. Wages are to have M
consideration. ALBERT YOUNG"
In return the employers issued a cal
to their striking employees to returl
to work irrespective of any previous
affiliations with any and all organiza
TONS and promising to protect then
in all contingencies which may aris'
in the future.
/ All night long the crowds came ant
went around the morgues where tht
bodies of the victims lay There wert
, the heads of families, brothers. sisters
men and women looking for those from
outside cities who had been guests
For hours they passed UP and dowr
before the long rows of dead searching
for the faces of their missing.
Sorrow reigned in the family of DR.
Frank w. Gunsaulus, the noted divine.
William Mclaughlin, aged 10, neph-
ew of Mrs. Gunsaulus, was one Of
those severely burned. He was taker
to the Presbyterian hospital, where the
attending physicians entertain no hope
for his recovery. Mr.. McLaughlin's
home is in Buenos Ayres. He is q
sophmore in the Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity at Delaware, o., and was spend
ing his holiday vacation at the Gun
salus home.
All night long search was kept ur
for Mary Dorothy Gartz, IL years old
and Barbara Gartz, years old, who
attended the theater with their aunt
Mrs. ADELAIDE Hoptfelt. Today their
bodies had not been found and there
seems to be no doubt that the children
have perished. They are the daugh-
ters OF A. F. Gartz and the nieces Of
r. r. Crane, the millionaire manu-
facturer, Of this city.
Mrs. Hoptfelt was taken from the