Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-31
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HEARTRENDING SCENES
WAKEFUL NIGHT SEARCHING
RUINS FOR THE DEAD.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associa ted Press
CHICAGO. December 31.-Today brought
only the legacy OF yesterdays monumental
calamity and the prediction that the list
of fatalities In the Iroquois fire will run
over six hundred when Information Is COM
plete.
The latest statement Of dead at the var
ious morgues is 584. and it is stated at the
various hospitals and hotels to which the
injured were removed that of the 157 peo-
pie who were injured probably one-third
cannot live.
The missing today were estimated at 314.
but 1t is expected that many of these would
be accounted for. probably large major
ity of them. 1t Is no extravaganza of Ian
guage to say that the city is stunned by
the overwhelming tragedy which was en-
acted when the theater which housed Mr..
Bluebeard' became a chamber of horrors,
indeed.
Sorrow in Thousands Of Homes
There is the deepest woe in hundreds of
homes today, deep sorrow in thousand
others and pity beyond the potency 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 searching for their
wives, wives searching for husbands fren-
zied parents seeking their children, so many
or whom lost their lives, and in some in
stances wide-eyed children. still dazed from
the horror of their experience. CROPPED dis
tressedly about in search of father or
mother.
Possibly nothing could better typify the
depth of the sympathy which is felt for
those who suffered directly by the calamity
than the action of the striking livery
drivers.
Livery Drivers Weaken.
By vote which was without dissent
ing voice it was decided to establish a
truce of ten days. President Albert Young
of the union. following the meeting, issued
the following decree, which was distributed
broadcast:
Owing to the great disaster to the public
caused by the fire at the Iroquois Theater
DO hereby declare a truce in the present
strike of undertakers and livery drivers
for ten days. and do further request that
every man now strike report at once to
their respective places of employment and
dc everything in his power to assist his en-
ploNer in caring for the wants of the pub
lie. Wages are to have consderat on.
tSlghed ALBERT YOUNG"
A Wakefu1 Night of Horror.
In their turn the employers issued a call
work, irrespective of any previous affilia-
tons with any and all organizations and
promising to protect them in all contin-
gencies which may arise in the future.
All night long the crowds came and went
around the morgues where the bodies of the
victims of the disaster lay. They were the
heads of families, brothers, sisters and men
and women looking for those from outside
cities who had been their guests. For hours
nd hat ff1a lone
rows of dead searching for the faces of
their missing
Sorrow reigned in the residence of DR..
Frank W. Gunsaulus, the noted divine, who
lin, nineteen years old, nephew of Mrs.
Gunsaulus, was one of those severely burn
ed. He was taken to the Presbyterian Hos
pital. where the attending physicians enter
tanned no hope for his recovery.
Came to Attend Wedding.
Mr.. McLaughin's home Is in Buenos
Ayres. He Is member of the sophomore
class of the Ohio Wesleyan University at
Delaware. Ohio. and was spending his holi-
day vacation at the Gunsaulus home.
He was to have witnessed the marriage of
Miss Martha Gunsaulus to Henry Hamilton
Shueler. which takes place at the Prairie
avenue residence this evening.
Owing to his condition all invitations to
the ceremony have been recalled. and only
the immediate relatives of the bride and
groom will be present..
All night long search was kept up for
Mary Dorothy CARTE twelve years old. and
Barbara CARTE four years Old who attend
ed the theater with their aunt. Mrs. AIDE
laide Hoptfelt. Today their bodies had not
been found, and there seems to be no doubt
that the children have persisted
They are the daughters of A. F. Carte and
the nieces of r. T. Crane, the Millionaire
manufacturer of this city.
Children Caught in Crush.
Mrs Hoptfelt was taken from the thea
ter severely burned about the head and
shoulders The children are believed to
have been caught in the crush. coming down
from the balcony and have been trampled
to death OH the staircase leading to the
main floor.
Walter Zeisler seventeen years old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs Sigmund Zeisler, is among
the missing He is a nephew Of Fanny
Bloomfield Zeisier. the famous pianist.
A party consisting of Mrs. Lucy earn.
her two children. Frank. ten years old. and
Willie six years old, Harriet Wolfe ten
years old. daughter of Ludwick Wolfe, a
millionaire business man, and Miss Burke, a
dressmaker, Is missing. Mr.. Woifes entire
family searched all night through the hos
pitfalls and morgues, but failed to find a
trace of any member of the party.
Crane Stewart. republican national COM
mitteeman from ILLINOIS,, spent tne eHtlTe
night hunting for Mrs. +. M. Fox of Win
netka, ILL.,, and her three children
Mother Found; Children Lost.
Mrs Fox is the daughter of w. M. Hoyt.
who was president of the w. M. Hoyt Gro
Gerry Company one of the wealthiest con-
Germs of the kind in the west. Mrs. Fox
was taken home but none of her children
was found.
Mr. Stewart said the handkerchief of
Hoyt Fox twelve years old. has been found
in the pockets of a suit upon the body of a
boy at Rolstons morgue. There Is no doubt
that it is the boy. although the features
cannot be identified.
There was a pathetic scene at RolSton 8
morgue when the body of John Van Ingen,
eighteen years old. of kenosha, Wis, was
identified. Friends of the Van Ingen fami-
ly had spent many hours searching at the
request of Mr.. and Mrs Van Ingen, who
were injured. Today four of the Van In
gen children, who are believed to have
persisted in the fire had not been account
ed for. They are: Grace, two years old;
Dotty. five years old; Mary, thirteen years
old. and Edward. twenty years old.
Nuns Broke Down and Wept.
One of the saddest of the many scenes
enacted I'm Thompson's restaurant near the
theater where many of the dead and
wounded were taken Immediately after the