The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-01-05
Chicago Cemeteries the Scene
of Many sad Funerals Held
at the Same Hour
FIRE ORDINANCE ENFORCED
And All The aters Are Closed by
the Mayors Orders Dead
Not All Id e ntified

Chicago, Jan. 4.-Sunday was a day
of funerals in Chicago and yet many
were unable to bury their dead. The
unprecedented demand for hearses and
carriages would have been enough in
itself TO tax 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
fculties enormously. All of the ceme-
teries IN Chicago are miles from the
business center ana residence stricts.
and with good weather and the streets
in passable condition it is a matter Of
seveI al hours TO reach any of them.
Today. when every hearse was in de-
mand. 1t required about twice as long
to reach a cemetery as under no. ma.
conditions.
Arrangements were made by the un-
dertakefs to have as many funerals
as possible held in the early part of
the day, in order to allow. If possible,
the use or the hearse for a second fu-
neral in the afternoon. In many in
stances families who waited for the
return of the hearse, were disappoint-
ed and were compelled TO defer the
burial of their loved ones. II is ex-
nected that by tomorrow the streets
Will be in, suen a condition as TO per-
nit the passage of funerals in almost
the ordinary time.
Mayor Harrison said tonight:
Il intend to hold meeting tomor-
row of ali the aldermen and II pos
sible all the theatrical managers also
/ want to talk over with them what is
best to be done So far | have acted
upon my own responsibility withou,
consulting anyone. There are one or
two theaters that could open tomorrow
by placing nremen upon the stage
but they must do that. AS far as ]
am personally concerned. not one the
ater shall open it's doors in this city
until ii has complied with the lasi
letter of the ordinances"
The mayor said he heard nothing
of the rumor that warrant was to be
taken out for his arrest.
"One can OF TELL" he said what
a man who has lost all of his family
in a fire like that of Wednesday will
do and he could hardly be held re-
SlCnSiDle Tor MS acllonS
The cemeteries were compelled to
keep men at work all through the
night digging graves and in some o.
the larger cemeteries they barely man
aged to make them with sufiicien'
speed. At one time today sixteen bur
ials were in "a p4ogress in Rose Hin Gem
sf.atfv ~ a1 g
days fire.
In the rooms of one undertaken a
fratelnal organization held services
over five members of their order al
the same time.
The funeral services over the re-
mains Of Ella ana Edith Freckelton,
sisters. were held in Boulevard hall
Fully 1000 people were in attendance,
and many more stood outside in the
biting wind, until the funeral had de-
parted for the cemetery.
In the home OF the millionaire man
ufacturer Ludwig Wolff, was held the
quadruple funeral of his daughter
Mrs. William G.. Garn. and her thre@
children. A crowd of more than one
thousand people were at the house
and the police were compelled to open
a passageway for the pallbearers. The
funeral was one of the largest ever
seen on the west side.
A funeral conducted In n humber
manner was held a few squa es from
the Wolff residence at the same time
1t was that OF Mrs Mary III. Hoist
and her three children. all of whom
died in the Inflated second baeon
Mrs. Hoist was a sister of ex-Chief of
Police Badenoch and 1t was he wh)
identified the bodies of the mothe. and
her three children. Fully as many
people were around the small frame
church in which this funeral gathered
as outside the prctenticus Wolff man
sion, and here, too, the police were
compelled to open a passageway for
the caskets as they were born to the
hearse.
These are hut few Instances of what
happened throughout the length and
breadth of Chicago today. Multiply
the funerals mentioned by twenty ana
better idea can be had of this first
Sabbath day in the new year.
20 list Of dead was Increased to 5SS
toa.s by e !aath Of Leroy Ranbol.,
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