The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-12-31
S|X HUNDRED PEOPLE
I THE LIST Of THE DEAD

fire apparently vas gaining upon the
firemen. who wer having the greatest
difficulty in effec, ing entrance because
of the crowds.
As the fire prog ressed four dead were
! taken out. two IN en-, a boy and lit
tie girl about six years old. A woman
was also taken ut with her face so
badly burned irhs IT she could not be
recognized.
A man who jun lped from the third
story window was taken to the emer-
gency hospital In an unc onscious con-
dition.
Fire Marshal NJ, ushman~ after COM
ing down from Il lie bale ony, said it
looked to him as q there were two or
on the floors of he tw upper bal
comics. He could n, IT say whether they
were alive or dead. In ore place there
seemed to be over one hundred.
Numbers of the fl remen rushed up in
the smoke and th ~ are now bring
ing the people do wn, most of them
unconscious and 'ome crushed to
| leath
Some of these PEI )ple were suffocat-
ed by smoke but most of them were
brown down durin g the panic which
ensued when some one cried Fire"
| Manager Davis sal that most of the
lctors were accoun ted for but thai
| number of the mi nor employees were
missing. He said tn 1t the cry of "fre''
,aused a panic and this accounted for
o many people losl n gtheir lives
Three additional ,odies were quick
removed from tn building. one OF
a child and two omen; they wele
aiken to a feed stor nearby.
The child was # Dund burned and
ampled to death On the first floor.
lhe women were fc ,und close to the
hid. While the dea d bodies were be-
ing removed fiftee, persons were
stretched on tables In Thompsons res
aurant not far distaI 1t. many of them
,elieved to be dying.
1t was reported tina twenty persons
II the balcony were cut off fIom re-
reat and probably perished in the
ames. Threee dead women were car
led across a ladder W. aich was stretch
I'd across the alley In the rear of the
.Leater building to the Tremond build
Eg.
Most of the spectatl ors who escaped
rom the balcony wer, rescued in this
manner.
The Northwestern University law
school. in the Tremo mt building and
other surrounding pla ces were TUNED
nto temporary morgu es
Nine injured persons arrived at the
amaritan hospital wit hin twenty min
ties after the fire frs broke out.
AT 4:40 p. m. 1t was estimated that
II least sixty dead b odies had been
escued from the fir e. The bodies
were taken to nearby stores and every
possible available plae e. The loss OF
life was greatest at he foot of the
from the UP per balconies.
At that point the bo dies Of the per-
sons who sought to flee from the
DANES were piled fu tly twelve feet
deep The bodies wer taken out as
4. apidly as the men ould enter the
smoke filled corridors md grasp their
awful load.
With over sixty DO dies recovered
Il ON the theater a CO nservative esti-
mate of the firemen was that there
vas at least two hunt ired more per-
sons inside either dead of unconscious
Firemen and policeme n said that in
side the building were bodies piled at
east five feet high. I n nearly every
Instance the bodies were fearfully
burned and the hair singed to the
scalp.
At 4:45 d. M the fire was out.
Chief Mushman of & he fire depart
nent said that from pc Tsonal investl-
cation he believed that there were ful-
" three hundred to Ave hundred DEAD
bodies in the first balco ~ of the thea
Ter. The firemen found at the head OF
he stairs leading to the balcony
number of people piled | six or eight
'eet high, so tangled tos ether that the
policemen and firemen had 10 drag
hem out by main fore 2.
At 4:50 o'clock fifty b. odies had peen
carried from the theatei into Tnomp-
sons restaurant one oor east. OF
hese fully thirty were dead
A number wee showi ng faint signs
~ life and II was INN ossible to tell
II first glance whether bout one ooz-
IN OF them were dead ol alive.
They were mostly II 'e pooies oi
,oung women under tw enty years of
~ht tualva
lge and children from si ght 10 '"e"s