Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-01
wEALTHY FAMILIES MOURN.

at the Iroquois Theatre iu Chicago is the
fact that nearly all the victims were
Americans and belonged to the wealthier
class. The playhouse was distinctly q
center for the best patronage and the
blow falls especially heavy upon Chicago
for the reason that members OF many
prominent families have been lost. Will
liam II. Hoyt, the millionaire wholesale
grocer, lest his daughter, Mrs. Evelyn
Fox. and her three children, Hoyt, Sid
ney and Emily. Perishing with them
was their nurse.
Mr.. Hoyt searched the morgues all OF
the night and has found The body of one
of the children. He is positive the
others are among the unidentified dead.
Adolph Gartz, son in-law of X. i.
Crane, also millionaire. lost two of his
children-Mary, aged 13, and Barbara,
aged 5. The children were accompanied
by an aunt and two maids, and were
seated we'll down in front. In the tur-
lnoil they were dragged from their es-
corts and trampled to death.
Three generations are missing from
one Of the oldest of Chicago families
that of Benjamin Moore. The dead N
this family include Benjamin Moore, aged
20, and his wife, aged 90; Mrs Matthew
Moore, aged 32; Lucille Bond, aged 9;
Roland Mckay, aged 5, grandchildren,
and Mrs. Joseph Beznek, a daughter.
A party consisting of Mrs. Lucy Garn,
her two children Frank, 10 years old,
and Willie, 6years old); Harriet Wolfe,
10 years old, daughter of Ludwick
Wolfe, a millionaire business man, and
Miss Burke, dressmaker, are. dead.
MIR. Wolfe's entire family searched all
night through the hospitals and morgues,
but failed to find trace of any member
Of the party.
The entire family of G. G. Meeker, al
so prominent in Chicago life-father,
mother and four children-were wiped
out in the fire.
Alexander Fl. Revell, prominent on
the Worlds Fair Board and in republi-
can circles, spent night OF terrible
anxiety before he learned that his little
daughter, Margaret, had escaped from the
fire with her clothing in tatters, and
was picked up wandering in the cold
streets.
In the boxes we're many parties of girls
home from the eastern colleges for the
holidays. So far as can be learned, all
Of them have been accounted for although
they report many thrilling escapes. As
guests they had the daughte.s Of many
prominent eastern families, all of whom
have been benumbed by the horrible
scenes they witnessed, and many Of whom
will curtal their visit and hasten East
with memory that never will be forgot
ten.
Because of the fearful blight that has
fallen upon Chicago, all eventsofa social
uature have been abandoned. All the
theaters and public places will be closed
today and many big social functions ar
ranged for the holiday week end have
been called off. The city is just awaken
ing to the appalling disaster which has
come to it. The streets are filled with
haggard wild-eyed men and women seek
ing for relatives and dreading the finding
of them. There will be no open houses
in Chicago. Crepe upon hundreds OF
doors forbid the punch-bowlin in the recep-
ton rooms.
Sorrow reigned in the residence of
DIR. Frank w. Gunsaulus, the noted
divine. William Mclaughlin, IS yeas
of age, a nephew of Mrs. Gunsoulus,
was one of those severely burned. He
was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital,
where the attending physicians enter
tained no hope for his recovery. Mr..
McLaughlin's home is in Buenes Ayres.
He is a member of the sophomore class
of the Ohio Wesleyan university at
Delaware, o., and was spending his
holiday vacation at the Gunsaulus home.
He was to have witnessed the marriage
of Miss Martha Gunsaulus to Henry
Hamilton Shueler, which took place at
the Prairie avenue residence yesterday
evening. Owing to his condition all in
vitations to the ceremony were recalled,
and only the immediate relatives of the
bride and groom we're present.