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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-31
01f'l D b ( DEAD

THE DEAD. 1 Following is a partial list of the dead l MRS. ". T. MARSH.
 MISS GLADYS sTREIToN. Alpena
 Mich. 1 LOUIS BUSHNELL. MRS. F. A MOORILL. ! MRS. A. SULLIVAN. l WIFE of Alderman Vinegar. MISS EDITH NORTON.
 MRS. HARBAUGH.
 IRENE LANG. l HORTENZ LANG. E L. WILSON. ? aS. DoNNELIY. l sHREE MEN employed in the flies of
 the stage
 MISS E. LAKE, s5 years of age, iden- tifled at morgue.
 MISS A. DONALDSON. IS years of age,
 identified at morgue by telegram in her purse. j. RATTY died at hospital Before death
 he spoke of two boys who had been with
 him. Both boys are thought to have per-
 ished. 1 ANNIE FITzGIBBoN. MRS. PATRICK O'DONNELL, wife of President O'Donnell of the ODonneli & Duer Brewing company. MRS. BESSIE CLINGER. | OTTO WATMAN | R. H. COULTS. MISS HEARD MISS ROSS, daughter of Dr. Ross HELEN M MCAUGHAN with party of
 seven high school girls in balcony c. ". FORBUS and family. FLORLINE, a German aerial performer,
 taken to Samaritan hospital, died in ann bulance.
 ETHEL BLACKMAN, 1S years of age.
 Glenview, III.
 MRS. CAVANAUGH.
 Unknown boy, years, burned beyond
 recognition.
 Two unknown women, met death jump ing from rear fire escape while their gar
 ments were aflame. LOUISE BUCHRAY. MARIE WALSH, 15 years. MRS. JAMES D. MALONEY, wife of a plumber.
 MISS SPENCER. ETHEL JONES, daughter of s. H. Jones, | attended theatre with brothers and sis | ters two of whom are missing. It was | reported that the mother, an invalid, l dropped dead when she received the tid- | ings of her daughters death. MRS. KING, wife of John c. King, the attorney.
 LILLIAN PHILLIPsoN, years, iden- tifcation uncertain Boy IT years. lived at Lafayette, Ind. MRS. FOREMAN. w. w. HOOPER, Kenosha Wis Five children of Kenosfa.
 Father became separated from them and is thought to be among the injured.
 MILDRED MERRIAM, 3 years old, res- cned by father but died on reaching the street BERNICE BAILEY, at morgue A. M HANDEL, identified by ring. E. c. WINSLOw. commercial traveller of Three Rivers, Minn. BURR SCOTT. FORNET1A PETERSON. HARVEY KELLY. Laclede avenue St. Louis. THOMAS COUTELL. EMPORLY HALL J. c. JOHNSON. died in hospital WILLIAM RATTLEY, died in hospital. WILLIAM M. REX, lawyer, Wauke- gan. HOYT FIX, body at morgue. MRS. l.. R. BUTLER, at morgue. s WARDMAN, at morgue. EDMUND w. MORTON, agent Wag- Ter Electric Manufacturing company, St.. Louis. - NEWBY. J. A. KOCKENS. MRS. STERN.
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9 9 2 INJURED

1. H. DONALDSON address unknown 1 THE REV. GEORGE HOWARD STUD LEY, pastor of All Strangers church.
 MISS J. II. DODD of Delaware o. | MISS Y. DALE.
 THOMAS J. FLANAGAN, G292 Col lege avenue, Indianapolis. l MRS M. A. HENRY. | ROSE K. ROGERS, identified by purse l H. ?. MOORE. l c. COOPER. l MAY CURRAN.
 MARTIN" a boy of 15.
 P. P. WILLIAMS.
 B. REGENBERG. ! ELLA LINDEN.
 MUIR, first name not learned. member Traveling Passenger Agents association, check No. 13,231. 1 HOYT FOX. RICHARD and ALLEN HOIST.
 HAROLD MARTIN, Pulliam, Tlli ROBERT MARTIN, young son of Prin- eipal Martin of Pullman school.
 JOHN VAN INGEN, Kenosha, Wis. WALTER PASSENGER, died at hos- pital.
 MARGARET BUREMAN, died at hos- pital.
 MRS. LEO WOLF, Hammond, Ind, died at hospital
 ALICE BAUsMAN, died at hospital HELEN HOWARD, died at hospital. HELEN COOPER, died at hospital. P. D. COULD, died at hospital. MORTIMER ELDRIDGE.
 HELEN BEYERSLOTH, Evanston, III. LOUIS KISNER and WIFE, said to have belonged to Blue Beard company. REV. GEORGE H. DUDLEY, pastor of All Se ts' Episcopal church.
 THE INJURED.
 MR5. e. KRAMs, Racine, Wis s,oadly burned; will die. WINIFRED LINDSAY, IT years of age, face and arms burned.
 ANNA TUBES, daughter of Charles Tubbs, superintendent Western Union Tel egraph company, hands and face burned. EMMA TUBES. mother of Anna Tunbs, condition serious.
 ELIZABETH TROWBRIDGE Twenty sixth street and Calumet avenue, blurred about hands and face; condition serious. EMMETT KINGSLEY. 2752 North Pau lima street, burns; probably die.
 FRED, KINGSLEY, her sen. burned on face and hands.
 WARREN F. MORGAN, 1496 Webster avenue. burned while reseuing his 3-year- old son.
 MISS MARcELL MORGAN, Detroit, severely burned; may die
 M. A. MERRIAM of the George A. Full Ter company, seriously injured while saw ing his daughter Mildred. LESTER DOrY, years of age
 VERDIO CLARK. badly burned. MRS. HENRY MILLER, Ontonagan, Mich.
 JESSIE PHELIN. will die.
 MARGARET BUERMAN, will die. RICHARD LANG. stage hand, will die. MRS. LEHMAN. serious.
 MRS. FRANCIS HERMAN, will die MISS CARRIE ANDERSON, seriously injured.
 MISS MABEL MMILLIN.
 FREDERICK FORD and WILLIAM PATTERSON young son of c. Patterson of the Pullman Palace Car company, all serious.
 ADELAIDE BAKER, serious.
 POMEROY, serious.
 EDDIE TOY, comedian.
 ORRVILLE RAYDT, 1903 Artisan ave- nue, severely burned.
 MRS. HELEN FLASH, S4 Humboldt Boulevard.
 FELIX and JESSIE GURRIERA. two children.
 MISS EMMA LANG, 5S4 Forty-ffth street
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THOUGHTFUL MAN
 SAVES MANY WOMEN.

George H. Elliott. secretary of the gas company, was in the building directly op- posite the theatre, and noticing smoke, went down to ascertain its cause. When he reached the street the women were all ready dropping into the alley, and Elliott immediately rushed for ladder in the effort to save as many as possible. No ladder was available, and the only method of assistance he had was to devise to lash some blanks together and throw them across to the affrighted women on the platforms with instructions to place the end firmly on the iron framework.
 l Before this could be done fearful loss
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STRONG AND HARDENED
 MEN SHED TEARS

Men worked at the task with tears run ming down their cheeks and the soos or the rescuers could be heard even In the hall below where this awful scene was being enacted. A number of men were compelled to abandon their task ana give it over to others, whose nerves had not as yet been shattered by the awful expe- rience As one by one the bodies were dragged out of the water-soaked' placken- ed mass of corpses, the spectacle became more and more heartrending. There were women whose clothing was torn complete lv from their bodies above the waist. whose bosoms had been trampled into a nuln and whose faces were marred be- vond all power of identification.
 Bodies lay in the first and second bal comics in great numbers In some places they were piled up in the aisles three and fonr feet deep where one had fallen and others ripped over the prostrate forms, and all had died where they lay, evidently suffocated by the gas. Others were bent over backs of seats where they had been
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trample under foot, as they fought for their own lives As the police removed layer after layer of dead in these door ways, the sight became too much even for police and firemen. hardened as they are to such scenes, to endure. The bodies were in such an inextricable mass, and so tightly were they jammed between the sides of the doors and the walls, that it was impossible to lift them one by one and carry them out. The only possible thing to do, was to seize a limb or some other portion of the body and pull with main strength.
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thrown by the rush of people for the doors and killed with hardly chance to rise from their seats. One man was found with his back bent nearly double his spi- nal column having been fractured as he was thrown backward. A woman was found cut nearly In half by the back of the seat, she having been forced over 1t face downward
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( this during Iroquo theatre could make it. the safest the Chicago.
 of the Besides this there 55s midnight the majority probably the the various undertaking establishments positively be injured
 
  pung of the frightened audience for the exists will be  lying and hospitals everything identity to Is rags heels of the O
 BEARD. fire ebrokeo durnng of play Beard which the first dramc production given the theatre its erection The which escaped the safety with clothing but their the seriously conflicting of but the best that electric part rapidly the front of the causing the
  in itself this
 
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 As Fo comedian of immediately aboutha and stuck. A practically through
  through reaching the balcony caught them
 
 
 
 
 one m he coming in contact of themt o burst pe had in the state the who foundn of their if going had by the o
 THEATRE in being in the upper balconi in he allways them. modelled of passageways toward balcony seems and to M Q of the in these two life o found stretched h tho aoo of doaa ton m passageway children HUMAN they were crawling or TO DESCRIBE over the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-31
DESIGNER OF BUILDING SAYS HE WILL NEVER
 AGAIN ALLOW A PIECE OF WOOD IN THEATRE

December njinJM k home nong taking advantage of likewise he f tn by
 allow another to e %
 built taomghe latest lii and r " woo stwys empo
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M HcAeo December so-whie of l out the fortunately number O ed the asles had provided themselves ery e dead They atre ushers hands ables the of the theatre.
 police dozen men accused of being thieves pckpockets.
 Coroner complete npeco of the theatre as b possible in the condition is tonight He said: If the asbestos in working that the fire might spreading the audience cham ber An iron railing which ad joining tier prevented think circumstances steep incline difficult for so large audience great delay"
 THEATRE PROOF Now this said the with all the appliances equipment such catastrophe as has The though everybody would have gotten the large extent the seats in the parouette The path of the and the ceiling of the theatre was bst and backened The boxes on the second tier entirely floor were only burned s evidently by burning fragments above" The roquoi theatre completed less than months to the public the night of November with @nr p Beard was ps"s had
  requirements ~ "ns @ p ssr sss 's @ amp na @ with was absolutely n'' all
 STAGE MANAGER SAVES PERFORMERS. off them to leap into the orchestra pit which would in all probability have lead to their death Stage Manager Cummings ran in front of them fh kill nnv snk back win the aid of Eddie T and paru trs a inc conn romth of theatre entoth below the off by the wedged the stairway They in
 
 
  
 
  the where the dead had been carried awaiting identification Hundreds in for finally 
 
 
  guarding the place to quiet the dissatisfied ones the hd slight damage was done to e several dressing ] s and aum6e Of costumes not the blaze
 PRoPREToRs MAKE STATEMENT. and Harry J. Powers proprors of the far as weha in that one of the scenic @ was noticed have  ohaveex fare 1t had no down the as- the hrem threw the contents of other Knhre immediately started for the exits of which  the asbestos 'op es % ppss % % aFgst b the G brick % wall thus seemed that the 
  theatre ample rmnrs a1d furnishings the nidng ansoad rnore America issued until 115 the of
 MOST DESTRUCTIVE IN HISTORY disaster vastly destructive human life than cured m Bleeding % Nun was nefg 0pn or m 5a % ef h & @ & % - sar of the
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taken by death as they were crawling on their hands and knees over the bodies of those who had died before. Others law with arms stretched but in the direction toward which they had sought safety, holding in their hands fragments of gar ments not their own. They were evidently torn from the clothing of others whom they had endeavored to pull down and
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Take your meals at Gelders'.
 no N. Twentieth st
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BEYOND HUMAN
 POWER TO DESCRIBE

The fight for life which must have talk en place at these two points. is something that is simply beyond human power to adequately describe. Only faint idea of its horror could be derived from the as- pect of the bodies as they lay. Women on
 top of these masses dead, had been over-
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Actors Make Heroic Effort to Pre- vent Catastrophe, But Asbestos Curtain Failed to Work and in a Moment Terrific Explosion Envel- oped House in Flames.
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MADLY STRUGGLING FOR LIFE OVER 500
 PERSONS PERISH IN CHICAGO THEATRE

During Performance of "Mr. Blue Beard' Scenery Catches Fire from Calcium Light and Crowd Makes Mad Rush for the Exit, Trampling Each Other to Death.
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In Awful Rush for Freedom, Women and Children are Mashed Into Pulp and Dead Bodies are Piled Up in Entrance to Balcony Eight Feet Deep.
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Stage Manager Saves Members of the Company by Threatening to Kill the First Person Who At tempted to Leap Into the Orches- tra Pit.
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Human Vultures Prey on the Dead and Two rIen are Caught With Baskets Picking Up Valuables Dropped by Victims in Race for the Open Air.

Coroner Says Heavy Rails Between the Row of Seats Prevented Many Persons Escaping from the Bal cony, rlany Being Killed Trying to Climb Over.
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MOST DESTRUCTIVE IN HIsTo

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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-05
WATER IN
Irrigation Works Rob the River Muir
raw Of Its Volume.

Irrigation Works Rob the River MUIR
ray Of Its Volume.
The lack of water in Victoria
and New South Wales is likely to
cause political as well as other
trouble, says the New York Post.
1t appears that the benefits to be
derived from the extensive irriga.
ton works will only be secured
at the cost of other parts of the
country, and already there are
signs of bad feeling on the subject,
A member of the South Australin
upper house has been delivering
himself of these bellicose senti-
ments: 81 am ready to take up
my rife, and it may be necessary
to send a South Australian army
into Victoria and New South
Wales to destroy their irrigation
works" This direful threatis due
to the tapping of the waters o.
the Murray-the one great Aus
tralian river-by Victoria anG
New South Wales, the two states
whose boundary line it forms fol-
the greater part Of its course
The result is that when it enters
South Australia for the ina
stage Of its career, it is not thu
noble stream that it was before i
had been tapped for irrigation
purposes by the other two states
The South Australians, who re
alize the need of water as clearl,
as anyone else, are NATURAL.
much exercised over the matter
all the more so as they have n
apparent remedy except force, o
which they have not enough, eve
if they could dream Of employ
ing it.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-05
MASTER OF THE SITUATION.
When Gov. Washburn Blaeksd the
Boots Of His Stat.

Gov. Washburn was a thorough
gentleman, through and through,
courteous, well-bred and with an
entirely sufficient sense of his own
dignity, writes Senator HOar, in
the Scribner's. But he had little
respect for any false notions of
gentility, and had a habit of going
straight at any difficulty himself.
To this habit he owed much of his
success in life. A very amusing
story was told by Mrs. Wash
burn, long after her husbands
death. She was one of the bright
est and sprightliest and wittiest
of women. Her husband owed to
her much of his success in life, as
we'll as much of his comfort and
domestic enjoyment. She used to
give sometimes half a dozen enter
tainments in the same week. She
was never disconnected by any
want of preparation or sudden
ness of demand upon her for hos
pitality, One day some quite dis
tinguished guests arrived in
Worcester unexpectedly, whom it
was proper that she should keep
to dinner. The simple arrange
ments which she had made for her
self and her husband wouldnOtd0,
She accordingly went at once to
the principal hotel of the town, in
the neighborhood, and bargained
with the landlord to send over the
necessary courses for her table
which were just hot and cooked
, and ready for his own. She got of
very comfortably without being
, detected.
I Her story was that one tim,
when Judge Washburn was gov
i. ernor, the members of his stat
\ came to Worcester on some pub
n lie occasion and were all inyite'
e to his house to spend the night
O When he got up in the morning h
/, found, to his CONSERVATION, tina
"a
a the man who was in the habit o
!, doing such services at his hous
was sick, or for some other reasO,
h had failed to put in an appear
ance, and none of the boots of tn
g young gentlemen were blacke(
i The governor was master of tn
situation. He descended to hi
cellar, took off his coat, BACKED a
n the boots of the youngsters hin
t. self, and met them at breakfas
V. with his usual pleasant courtes,
le as if nothing had happened.
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SALE.

whereas, Ella IA. Strohhart and Richard :.
StrObhart her husband. by their certain
deed OF trust. executed on the @ih day Of
February, 1902, and recorded In book No. $50
page aO2, 10 the Office OF the recorder OF deeds
Tor Lafayette county, Missouri. did convey TO
Sylvester Judd MS trustee the fOlluwing
described real estate ia Lafayette county.
Missouri, 10 secure payment OF a certain
. romissOry note therein described. tO-wit:
Beginning at the northeast corner OF the
southeast quarter OF the southwest quarter
81 section fourteen li4l. township f~Orty-nine
ligl, range tW~enty-eight l26l, running thence
south twenty 1901 feet. thence west six hun
dred and twenty-Seven l6gIl feet thence
south ten llOl feet, thence west one hundred
and ffty-siX and three-fOurth llo64l feet.
thence south hftee 1851 poles and one ~
foot. thence east one hundred and ffty-slx
and three fourth ll56Al feet, thence north
fifteen ID poles ana one III foot To the
place Of beginning, estimated u contain one
acre more OF less. Also "a tract or par el Of
land, In Lafayette county, Missouri, descrtb-
ed as follows. tO-wit; Starting at The north
east corner OF the southeast quarter OF the
southwest quarter OF section fourteen ll4I.
township forty-nine l49l, range twenty eight
I2sl. running hence west seven hunor q lnd
eighly-three and threc-fourth l7SAl fee
thence south thirty 1901 feet 60 place OF
beginning, thence west one huf dred ana
ifty six and three fourth lljtAl itet,
thence south fifteen llhl poles and ont
lll foot, thence east one uudred ana
nfty-siX and three b fourth 1881 tcti
thence north fifteen llal poles and one
foot TO beginning point, estimated 20 coutuif
one acre more or less; and wherea detaul
has been made In the payment Of the interest,"
and principal due on said note, and win rua,
said trustee refuses 10 act, therefore, 10y
virtu OF the authority and terms Of said
deed o. trust, the same providing for the salt
Of said real estate IN case OF default IN the
payment of the Interest and principal du'
on said note, I, the Undersigned, sheriff 81
Lafayette county, Missouri, will offer fol
sale and sell, at public vendue to the highes
bidder for cash, at the north front door o
Missouri, on
MONDAY, DECEMBER p, 1908,
between the hours Of nine O'Clock In tn
forenoon and FIVE O'Clock In the afternoon o
said day, the above described real estate 70
the purpose OF paying the said debt secures
and all costs of eXecu ing this trust.
1l-2st4 OSCAR THOMAS. sheriff.
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SHERIEF'S SALE.

The State Of Missouri at the Rela-
ton and 10 the use Of j.. j FulRer-
son. Collector of the Revenue of
Lafayette County, in the state OF
Missouri, Plaintiff.
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STR NOTICE.
1i-9itd

Letters of administration on the partnership
estate OF Mark Bros. Edward Mark being
deceased partner) were granted to the under
signed on the 18th day Of October, 1903 by the
probate court Of Lafayette county, Missouri
Xii persons having claims against said part
nership estate are required to exhibit them for
allowance to the administratrix within one
year after the date OF said letters or they may
be precluded from any benefit of such estate
and II such claims be not exhibited within one
wears from the date OF said letters they will
be forever barred.
This 10th day Of October, 1908.
LEONA +. MARK,
fO-2tib Administrative.
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MEXICO.
Has a Constitution Like Ours, But No
Party Machinery.

EAIAy mASnAucAJ
1t is a matter of no little sur
prise to the foreigner that in a fed
eral republic whose institutions
are mode.cd after those of the
United States party activity and
even organization r practically
absent, says the Review of Re
views. The immediate cause of
this anomalous situation is the
overwhelmingly dominant posi-
ton occupied by President Diaz.
All classes of Interpolation, from
the poorest people to the wealth
Ter land owners, place such un
bounded confidence in his ability
to direct the policy of the country
that there is no need for an organ.
lied party to rally to his support,
and no room for an opposition
party. That this situation has re-
manned practically unchanged
during the successive terms of his
administration can only be eX.
planned by the fact that the polit.
ical education of the people has
not yet reached the level which
the democratic political system
adopted in 1857 demands.
In the nominating convention
of the liberal union party, which
assembled in the City of Mexico
on June 10, the political progress
of the last % years was closel,
mirrored. Delegates from ever.
state and territory of the repub
lie assembled, not merely to re
nominate Gen. Diaz, but to founO
a national political party who's
main purpose will be the maintC
nance of those traditions of lay
and order which have contribute
so much toward the Industrial aC
! vancement of the countr,
Whether this party organizatio
! will lead to the formation of a
!. opposition party remains to b
!. seen. The indications are that n
: such party will be formed, ina
! much as it would have to take
position antagonistic to the pre-.
ent administration in order to fin
a reason for its existence. Wit
such a platform it would be impo
sible to form a party, owing to Il
absence of any a~rticulate oppos
ton sentiment in the country. I'll
only possibility is the formatic
of a conservative party, whiC
would soon be forced into the a
titude of the old clerical part
The resentment aroused by Il
coniscatiOn of church proper
and the expulsion of monastic 9
ders might form the nucleus for
conservative or clerical part
But even here much of the bite
ness has disappeared, owing
the spirit of fairness which h;
characterized the policy of Pre-
dent Diaz in his dealings with t
church.