Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-01-09
II WAS A DAY Of FUNERALS
CHICAGO SPENT SUNDAY IN
BURYING VICTIMS.
Was not Enough Hearses to Supply
Demand-Heavy Snow Retarded
Progress-Some Funerals Deferred a
Day-Men Worked All Night in
Cemeteries-Total Dead 588.

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of funerals in Chicago and yet many {
were unable to bury their dead. The I
unprecedented demand for hearses and
carriages would nave been enough in
itself to task to the very utmost the
resources of the undertakers, but the
heavy snow that has fallen during the
last two days has increased their diff
ficulties enormously. All of the ceme-
teries in Chicago are miles from the
business center and resident districts
and with good weather and the
streets in passable condition it is a
matter of several hours to reach any
OF them. Sunday, when every hearse
was in demand, it required about twice
as long to reach a cemetery as under
normal conditions. Arrangements were
made by the undertakers to have as
many funerals as possible held in the
early part Of the day In order to al
low, If possible, the use of the hearses
for a second funeral in the afternoon.
In many instances families who wait
ed for the return of the hearses were
disappointed and we're compelled to
defer the burial Of their beloved ones.
Inc CelntlcIlCS WOlO SObhPOANN
keep men at work all through the
night digging graves, and in some OF
the larger cemeteries they barely man
aged to make them with sufficient
speed. At one time Sunday fourteen
burials we're in progress in Roseh1ll
cemetery, all of them victims OF Wed
nesday's fire.
In the rooms of one undertaken a
fraternal organization held services
over five members of their order at
the same time. The funeral services
over the remains of Ella and Edith
Freckelton, sisters, was held in Boule-
ward hall. Fully 1000 people were in
attendance and 500 more stood out
side in the biting wind until the fun
eral had departed for the cemetery.
In the home of the millionaire
manufacturer, Ludwig Wolff, was held
the ouadruple funeral of his daughter,
Mrs. William H. earn, and her three
children. A crowd of more than one
thousand persons surrounded tne
house and the police were compelled
to open a passageway for the pail
bearers.
Eunerd OF OldTcHCC D. OS"N"
~Ringhampton. N. Y, ian 4.-One
of the most largely attended funerals
ever held here was that of Clarence
Rurr Scott. Harry Judson," of the
Millionaire company, who was burned
to death in the Iroquois theater nre
in Chicago. Rev. DR.. A. w. Hammls
drawing a lesson from the sham pro
lection of the theater, said:
GOOD gives a protection to those
who trust in I'm that drops dow
in time of temptation and is maze o
asbestos and not OF burlap.
Funeral of the Holsts.
funeral conducted in a humpl
MANNER was neld a few squares iron
the Wolff residence at the same time
1t was that of Mrs. Mary a.. HolsI LII
her three children. all OF whom ule
in the Inflated second balcony. NIT
Hoist was a sister of ex-Chief Oh f'
lice Badenoch, and it was ne WI
identified the bodies of the motne
and her three children. Fully as man
noon1a were around the small fran
church in which this funeral gatnere
as outside the pretentious WON ma
sion and here, too, the police wei
comne1led to open a p~assageway II
the caskets as they were borne 10 I'll
bearses. These are but instances
what happened throughout the leng'
and breadth of Chicago today. MI
tinlv the funerals mentioned by zo al
a better idea can be had Oh mis- III
Sabbath day in the new year.
h list of dead was increased
5S8 nv the death of Leroy hainpo
a boy of 4 years. who was severe
burned.
or the ten bodies at the couh
morgue. four more were loenIlne
They were: Mrs. Mary A. FAIR SAD
ludwig, Dorothy Lemager, 10 year
Emma Reynolds. Z years.
The injured of whom there is a
rooord now number 103, although t
humber of those who were hurt sig
" would swell this number grea'
Numbers of people went to tn'
homes after the fire without repo
ing themselves to the ponce as
jured. ,,or,
outside of the numerous tuner
hat were held Sunday 1t was tne ~
dav of rest the city has known sin
Wednesday afternoon. Less imam
nersons called at the office OF =.
chief Of police for permits 10 VI
morgues and few people were at
hospitals.