The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-01-10
WORK ALL NIGHT
DIGGING GRAVES
Chicago For the First Time In His
tory Unable to Bury Its Dead.
HEARSES DO DOUBLE DUTY
The List of Dead Increased To "9S-
Fourteen Funerals Of Victims
of the Fire Were I'm Frog
reSs ut One Time.


re<s at One Time.
Chicago. Jan. 4.-Sunday was day OF
funerals IN Chicago. and for the hrst
time ir the history of the city all peo-
pie who desired to bury their dead
we're unable TO dc so. The unprece-
6ented demand for hesrses and carrl-
ages would have been enough in itset
to task to the very utmost the re-
sources of the undertakers. but the
heavy snow that has fallen during the
last two days has increased their diI-
ficulties enormously. All OF the cehe-
teries in Chicago are miles from ne
business center and residence DISTRICTS
and with good weather and the streets
in passable condition, IT is mater
of several hours to reach one OF them.
Sunday, when every hearSe was IN ur-
gent demand, il required about TWICE
as long to reach a cemetery as under
normal conditions. Arrangements we're
made by the undertakes TO nave as
many funerals as possible held in the
early part of the day, in orded TO al
low if possible of the use of the hearse
for a second funeral in the afternoon.
Hcar-es Doing Double Duty.
In a number of cases this was done,
but in a number of instances. where
the families who were to await the
return of the hearse, were disappointed
and were compelled to defer the burial
of their loved ones until to-day. IL
is not expected that there will be any
further trouble in this direction, ana
by to-day the streets to the cemeteries
will be in such condition as to per-
nit of the passage of funerals IN al
most the ordinary time.
Digging Graves All Night.
| The cemeteries were compelled 10
! keep men at work all through the
night digging graves. and in some or
the larger cemeteries they barely man
| aged to make them with sufficient
! speed. At one time Sunday afternoon
IA burials were in progress in Rose
/ Hill cemetery, and all of them were
! interments of victims Of the fire last
! "Wednesday afternoon.
! over TWO Thousand Hpurners.
In the rooms of one undertaken on
the south side. early fraternal soci-
ety held services over the members or
their order at the same time, and all
of them were buried side by side in
! Waldheim cemetery.
Largest Funeral i'm 'bicnGo.
In the home of the millionaire manu-
facturer, Ludwig Wolff. at 1929 Wash
ington boulevard. was held the quad
ruple funeral of his daughter, Mrs.
i William H. earn, and her three chill
dren. A crowd of more than LOO
people surrounded the house, and the
police were compelled to open pass
age way for the pall-bearers.
Dead Now Numbers So.
These are but instances Of what hap
pened throughout the length and
breadth of Chicago Sunday. Multiply
the funerals mentioned by %, and a
better idea can be had of this first Sab
bath day in the new year. The list OF
dead was increased to SIS Sunday by
the death of Leroy Rainbold, a boy of
four years. who was severely burned
and died in St. Luke's hospital. OF
the ten bodies at the county morgue,
four were identified Sunday.
First Day of Rest.
The injured, of whom there is any
record. now number 1903, although the
number OF those who were hurt slight
" would swell this number greatly,
Numbers of people went to their homes
after the fire without reporting them
selves to the police as injured,
Outside the lumerousu funerals that
were held in the city Sunday, it was
the first day OF rest the city has known
since last Wednesday afternoon. Less
than twenty persons called at the Of
fee of the chief of police for permits
to visit morgues, and few people were
at the hospitals.
Every Theater Ordered CLOSED.
Saturday night every theater in the
city of Chicago was dark and its doors
were locked Not one Of them will lie
open "a the public until their man.
ayers have complied in the fullest man.
ner with every section of the ordi-
nances regulating playhouses.
There was hasty rush Of theatrical
managers 10 the office of Mayor Har-
rison in the effort to secure the with
drawal. or at least a pOstpOnement OF
the order. hut their reception was OF
an exceedingly II Osty nature
Thcatcr Proprict0rs Arrested.
Will ]. Davis and Harry Powers, pro-
prietors of the Iroquois theater, and
Building Commissioner Williams are
under arrest charged with manslaugh-
ter They have been released on sl0.-
600 bonds. and their hearing is set fol
January II.
To Sign AnGlo-Italian Treaty.
London. Jan. 4.-Tne AnSlO-Italian
arbitration treaty, which is on practi-
cally the same lines as the Anglo
French treaty, is expected to be signed
this week The agreement has already
been drawn up by Foreign Secretary
Lansdowne and Sig. Panza. the Italian
ambassador TO Great Britain.
Body Inferred AT SnndoNaI
Sandoval. ILL.,. Jan. 4.-The body OF
/ Miss IiIlV Powers one of Tho TrpnuOi-