The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-01-06
SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE DEAD
Awful Holocaust in the Ir1uCs Theatre. in Chicago. in
Which Hundreds of Persons Are Cremated,
SuffOcated and Trampled to Death.

ward the front Of the theatre. Two OF
these doorways are at the end OF tho
balcony, and one being in the center.
The audience. in it's rush for the
outer air, seems to have chosen. for
the greater part, to flee to the left en-.
trance and to attempt to make it's
way down the eastern stairway lead.
ing into the lobby Of the theatre. Out.
side Of the people burned and suffo-
Gated by gas, it was in these two door.
ways on the first and second balconies
that the greatest loss of life occurred
When the firemen entered the build.
ing the dead were found stretched In
pile reaching from the head OF tho
stairway at least eight feet from the
door back to point about five feet in
the rear of the door.
This mass of dead bodies in the cen.
ter of the doorway reached to within
two feet Of the top of the passageway.
All of the corpses at this point were
women and children.
In the first and second balconies
bodies were piled up in the aisles
three and four deep, where one had
fallen and others tripped over the
PROSTATE forms All had died where
they lay, evidently suffocated by gas.
Others were bent over backs Of seats
where they had been 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 spinal 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 It face downward.
In the aisles nearest the doors
the scenes were narrowing in the ex-
IRENE. Bodies lay in every conceivabls
attitude, half naked, the look on their
faces revealing some portion of the
agony which must have preceded their
death. There were scores and scores
of people whose entire faces hal been
tramp'ed completely off by the heels
of those who rushed over them, and
in one aisle the body OF man was
found with not a vestige OF clothing,
flesh or bone remaining above his
walstline.
The entire upper portion Of his body
had been cut into mincemeat and car
ried away by the feet of those who
trampled on him. A search was made
carefully with the hope OF finding his
head, but at late hour tonight 1t had
not been discovered, and all that will
ever tell his friends who he was is tho
on the lower limbs, and this is in such
condition as to be hardly recogniz-
able.
About a score Of people in the sec
ond balcony were saved by fremen
who took them through the roof and
carried them down ladders in the rear
of the building. Two bodies tightly
locked in each others arms, young
women APPARENTLY about 25 years OF
age. were found in one end of the or
chestra pit. They must have fallen
there from the balcony above.
The body of dark haired girl ap-
parently ~ years of age, was found
impaled on the iron railing of the first
ta!cony, she evidently having been.
thrown over from the second balcony
above.
With all its clothing torn from II,
but pair of baby shoes, the body OF
child about one year old was found
in far corner of the second balcony.
1t had evidently been knocked from
it's mothers arms and was trampledl
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