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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
Scenes at Identification.

All night long grief stricken friends
and relatives of the missing persons
besieged the morgues, where the dead
had been carried awaiting identifica
ton, and many pathetic incidents oe
CURED. Patrick O'Donnell. a wealthy
brewer. identified the body OF his wife
by ring which he had given her for
a Christmas present.
AT the undertakers on Madison
street, where great crowd was with
difficulty held In check by the police,
little woman in black broke from the
line and demanding to see her son,
who she said was among the dead,
then rushed toward the door but fell
faintlDg into the arms OF policeman.
Thousands Of people surrounded
Ralgfon's morgue on Adams street and
20 anxious we're the grief stricken PEG.
pie 70 ascertain II their loved ones
were among the victims Of the disas.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
STRIKERS REFUSE AID.

w. ID. Moore, liverystable proprl.
etor. responding to request that car.
riages be sent for the relief Of the
sufferers, agreed to give his carriages
for the work He later stated that
he had telephcned to the headquarters
OF the striking drivers asking II they
would drive TO the theater to help
move the wounded. They fatty refused
TO do So
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07


Chicago, Jan. 2,-Seyenteen the
aters were closed last night by order
of the building commissioner on ac-
count of not being provided with AS
bostos Are curtains as required by
the ordnance of the city.
The mayor named an aldermanic
committee of contractors and building
experts to inspect oil the theaters IN
city as to strict compliance with the
building ordinances and the safety for
audiences In case Of fire or panic.
City Electrician Elicott ordered all
arc and calcium lights discontinued
Immediately on the stages OF all tho.
aters and Are alarm box Installed
at once In front OF each playhouse In
the city.
City Electrician Ellicott Is con
yinced that the great lroquois fire
started from an arc light at the first
"roost." william MeMullen, tender
of that Hight, Was arrested on sus.
piclon that he was absent from his
post when the scenic "drape" was
! ignited.
| Mayor Harrison asks architects and
builders clubs to name an expert
committee TO inspect Iroquols and
other thoaters and report every In.
stance Of violation OF the city's build.
ing ordinances found In any play
house.
Burylng the Dead.
Chicago yesterday began to lay
away her dead. The silent new years
morning broke on "A city palled and
mantled with grief and night had
fallen ere the last cortego had 70.
turned from the cemeteries whore
victims of the IroQuois theater
catastrophe are now sleeping their
last sleep. Christmas greenery had
been hastily torn down TO make way
for tho black trapplngs Of woe, and
all through the day and night the
railroads bore from the city the bodies
OF out-oftown visitors who had died
in the FIRE.
Sad was yesterday, but sadder will
be today, for but small part OF the
host Of victims had been buried last
night. Hundreds of graves have now
been dug that will BIO filled by even.
ing, and Sunday probably will see but
few OF the identified yet unburied.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
BALCONIES PACKED.

1t is estimated that 1900 people were
in the theater Only about 500 were
on the first floor, the others being in
the balconies and Railways back of
them. From the rear of each balcony
are three doors leading to passageways
toward the front of the theater. Two
of these doorways are at the end of
the balcony and one in the center.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
MAD FIGHT FOR LIFE.

Others lay with their arms stretched
out in the direction toward which
lay life and safety, holding in their
hands fragments Of garments not their
own. They were evidently torn from
the clothing Of others whom they had
endeavored to pull down and trample
under foot as they fought for their
own lives.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
lNExTRIcABLE MASS.

As the police removed layer after
layer of the dead in these doorways,
the sight became too much even for
the police and firemen, hardened as
they are to such scenes, TO endure.
The bodies were in such an inextric-
able mass; and 50 tightly damned be.
tween the sides Of the door and walls
that 1t was impossible to lift them one
by one and carry them out The only
possible thing to do was to seize a
body and pull 1t with main strength
AWFUL SCENE OF RESCUE.
Men worked at the task with tears
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
DEAD PASS 700 MARK.

Chicago, Dec. 31.-Coroner Traeger
reported that by actual count 736
people are dead.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07

running down their cheeks, and the
sohs of the rescuers could be heard
even in the hall below as this awful
scene was being enacted A number
of men were compelled to abandon and
give over to others whose nerves had
not as yet been shaken by the awful
experience, AS one by one the bodies
wero dragged out Of the water soaked
blackened mass of corpSes. heart,
rendering scenes mmlfinlieh
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
LEAP TO DEATH.
RESCUE TOO LATE.

Men occupying Offices endeavcred to
secure ladder to rescue those on tho
platforms but not finding one caught
up some planks at hand and construct
cd bridge across the alley, between
buildings. Before this was complet-
ed a less of time ensued, the women
being pushed every instant into the
alley and by the time the bridge was
constructed 1ut few remained to take
ADVANTAGE OF It,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
ALL CHOOSE ONE DOOR.

The audience in its flight seems to
have chosen the left entrance and at
tempted TO make its way down the
eastern staircase into the lobby. Out
side of the people burned and suffocat.
ed by gas, it was in these two door,
ways on the first and second balconies
that the greatest loss of life occurred.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
HEROIC COMEDIAN.

The members of the theatrical com.
pany, being on the first floor, had com.
paratively little difficulty in reaching
the street. Eddie Foy was the last to
escape, having waited to assist the
women members of the company to
safety. He said the flames readily
obtained access to the main part OF
The theater, and were, by the draft car
rying with it gas as well as fire, swept
up to the balconies, where the loss Of
life was the greatest.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
NARROWING INCIDENTS.

The body OF l2.year-old girl was
found impaled on the iron railing OF
the first balcony, evidently having
been thrown from the second balcony.
With all the clothing torn from 1t,
but pair Of baby shoes, the body OF
a child one year old was found In a
corner Of the second balcony. 1t had
evidently been knocked from its
mothers arms and was trampled be-
yond all recognition.
William A. Brady, the well known
New York theatrical manager, who
vas In the audience. describing the
panic, likened II TO Dante's Inferno,
and he told Of the terrible speed OF the
flames and frantic efforts Of the peo-
pie 10 escape He said the scene was
the most awful thing imaginable. He
assisted in removing $50 bodies,
which he said were damned and
twisted together In all shapes. Many
of the women and children had been
stripped almost naked In their ef.
forts to escap~ from that living tomb"
He said that before the fire started
be niticed that the calcium lights were
cut OF order.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
DIE IN THEIR SEATS.

This, however is contradicted by
the statements of firemen, who found
numbers of people sitting in their
seats, their faces directed toward the
stage as if the performance was still
going on. 1t was the opinion of the
firemen that these people were suffo-
Gated at once by the flow of gas which
came from behind the asbestos cur
tain.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
e37 BODIES TAKEN OUT.

Chicago, Dec. 31.-At $3.50 D. m. it
was declared by the police That 637
bodies had been taken from the
ruins.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
SAVED THROUGH THE ROOF.

About a score Of people in the sec
ond balcony were saved by the fire
men, who took them through the roof
and carried them down ladders in the
rear Of the building.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
ORIGIN AN ELECTRIC WIRE.
CURTAIN FAILS TO WORK.

The fire itself up to this time was
not serious and possibly could have
been checked had not thS asbestos
curtain failed to work A. soon as
the fire was discovered. eddie Foy,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
VICTIMS OF TAEATER HoLo.
cAusr NUMBER ess,
20 NOT YET IDENTIFIED
Day Given Up TO Burials---Seventeen
Theaters Closed Because Asbestos
Drop Curtains Are Lacking
Fire Started From An Arc
Light.
Chicago Theatcr Fire Victims.
peveIopmenta Of the DAY.

The known dead 49, 49,, :. .6oi
The unidentified dead 49,, i, 80, ~
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
HEAVY TRUCK STALLED.

One truck ordinarily used for con
veying freight to the depots was so
heavily loaded with dead that the
horses were unable to start the load
and the police We're compelled to as.
sist by Juggling at the wheels.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
NO FIRE ESCAPES.

The theater was so recently con-
structed that fire escape ladders were
not yet in place. The balconies to
which they were to be attached were
up. When the panic was at its height
great numbers of women ran for the
fire escape in the alley, only to find
themselves on a small iron platform 80
to so feet from the ground, with the
fire beside them and no means OF
ESCAPE in FROM,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
AHoRRoR IN GREAT CITY.

Rely in the history of Chicago, has
its nople been so stirred as by the
calarLy Of yesterday. 1t is next TO
the dscago fire. the greatest catas.
trophahat ever occurred here, and
the spei with which it came and went
seemedpr brief period To appall the
business ection OF the city. Crowds
rushed 1.-THE scene and the heavy de.
tails OF Lice massed there found Ii
for a tim almost impossible to hold
back the hnzied people, many Of
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
SAVES FEW, KILLS MANY.

The curtains failure to drop prob.
bly,, he said, saved the lives Of the
esnpany, although it caused such
hATible catastrophe in the front OF
thshouse.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
BISHOP IN RESCUE WORK.

Bishop Samuel b. Fallows was
passing the theater at the time of the
fire and Immediately entered the the.
alter and assisted in carrying out the
victims.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
MORGUES OVERFLOW

Chicago, Dec. 31.-The coroner has
been notified that there are 422 bodies
at the different morgues and hospi-
falls. All have not been heard from
vet. as a number of bodies were taken
to the undertakers in the different
parts of the city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
EARLIER MoRGuE REPORTS.

The crowds around Ralston's and
Jordan's were so large that it is i'm
possible to get more people in line to
view the dead. Therefore the crowd
was notified that no others would be
admitted last night. Only one body
was identified at the county morgue.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07
A FOOL YELLED FIRE.!
ALL MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED.

Will J. Davis, manager of the the
alter, said after the catastrophe, that
If the people had remained in their
seats and had not been excited by the
cry of fire, not a single life would
have been lost
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07

ter that the police were scarcely ablo
to control the situation, The scenes
were erected at a dozen other places
where the dead had been carried,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-07

chief comedian of the company, shout
ed to lower the curtain, and this was
Immediately done. 1t descended about
half way and stuck. The fire thus
was given practically a tlue through
which strong draft was setting, aid
ed by the doors which had been
thrown open in the front of the the
alter,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28
Scottish Stories,

\ carpenter in a Scotch village, tn
obligc the local undertaken, who was i'll.
went to screw down coffin lid. The sick
mans wife gave him fun and particular
instructions respecting the task. "Wecl,'
she asked when he returned, hoo did We
get on?' Fine" was the reply. But
hand What was that for" oh" said
the lady. that's a custom some folks
-. He's supposed to gle that to the
icrryman who rows him Ger the river o.
death" DO We tell me that? It's a
queer world. But I'm sayin', misses .
"fes? I'm feared yon chap will haze to
swim"
Sir Archibald Geikie the eminent geolo-
Sist. tells of a doctor who was attending
Il Scotch laird of the old school and to
save himself useless journeys had in
structed the butler in the art of taking
the masters temperature. Well John"
said he one morning. Il hope the lard S
temperature is not high John looked
tor. was the reply, Il Gamma say for
certain, for, ye see, he de'd at twal last
NIGHT
Another of Sir Archibald Gcikie's stories
tells OF Il funeral party at Il railway sta
ton and is typicaily Scotch. as showing
the proverb:al caution of those canny
folks. y gentleman asked one who
seemed to be IL mourner if he were with
Inc funeral Man." said the person ad-
dressed, I'm no just sure that it is a
funeral for the corp has missed the train
connection"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28

especially to those who have friends
who are patients at the institution. to
know that the affair of the Eastern
Maine insane hospital in this city are
being administered in the most salts
factory manner to the official board
and to all others interested. DR.. Philip
III. S. Vaughan, the superintendent. has
now had direct oversight and manage
ment of the institution since December
last and has during this time given
complete satisfaction to all and con-
stantly made friends for himself and
for the institution. The wisdom of the
trustees in choosing DR.. Vaughan as
the successor of the late DR.. Foster has
been most positively affirmed by the
admirable manner in which his re-
sponsblc and often trying duties have
been discharged. There are now at
the institution 2i0 inmates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28
An Old Salts Observations.

1t must be mighty nice to be king
an run a country; but reckon faint a
marker on what it is to be queen. She
runs the king.
What do you want more for?" asked
a miser. Look at what you've got"
Il can't" says he. "All / can see is
that that other people have. It's an af-
lection of TIL eyes," says he.
paid three shillin' for a mango once
when I was tied up in London, an |
dunno's ever eat anything that tasiDd
better. A month later l was in Ha-
vana, where 1 could git 'em for tn ask
in. an somehow l didn't think much OF
mangoes.
AS far as can figger out, experience
is dear teacher, principally because
she's such a mighty poor one. Half tn
time her lessons is forgotten in tch
minutes, an almost always within
month. Jest see tn number of unhap-
by maria ges that widows makes.
TIL records of our joys an our sue
cesses are mostly written with a pencil
on secret slate, an old man Time, he
carries wet rag along to wipe 'em of,
Tn records Of our sorrows an our fail
ures are cut deep in II like chiseled
words upon monument. An amt
most folks jest eager to gap around an
read inscriptions on monument
Judge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28
The Sugar Beet Industry.

The continued growth and, prosperity
of the American beet sugar industry
shows upon what slight foundation
rested the fear of those who expected
that Cuban reciprocity would damage
or disturb it. \ special agent of the
department of agriculture has just
made report for the past year. which
shows that the beet sugar business is
no longer an experiment. but has to be
recognized as an established and vall-
able industry. The country now has
IS beet sugar factories. which last year
manufactured 4Sl 100000 pounds of
sugar. To accomplish this result, 292,-
900 acres where planted to sugar beets
and all this industry is the result of
only seven years experimenting and
work. 1t is reasonable to believe that
this industry is only in it's infancy. and
that it will increase until it becomes in
the future a great factor in the aSri-
cultural prosperity of the United
States.
Thus far. as the report pointed out,
the cultivation of the sugar beet has
been slack. and the results have been
not nearly so profitable as those which
will follow systematic and careful
cultivation. At the present time. the
extraction of the sugar beets is only II
per cent of the weight of the beets.
An extraction of three or five per cent
more than this is easily possible with
more careful cultivation, and would
add very largely to the profits of the
business. In many sections of the
Middle States and the West, the farm
ers are awakening to the possibilities
of this industry. They find that the
element of hazard exists to less ex-
tent than in many crops; that the cost
|6f planting and harvesting is small
and that there is always a demand for
the beets. Moreover, uses are now be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Our Next Representative.

ellsworth American.)
Not for a generation has Ellsworth wit
messed so exciting a contest over II caucus
nomination as that which had been going
On for many weeks between DR.. A. c.
IIaGcrthy and ArnO w. King for the re-
publican nomination for representative IL
the legislature, and which ended last SAT
urday night. with DR.. Hagerthy the vic
tor
Or. Hagerthy has been a lifelong re-
publican. but until two years ago had
not taken conspicuous part in politics
At that time. utterly diSSa tiSfed with tn.
drift of affars-with the democratic re
gime of the three preceding years. and
with repuDucan apathy in local affairs
he consented to become d candidate TO:
mayor.
lie applied to that campaign the exccu-
tive ability which he possesses in such
large measure. infused unbound"d en-
thuSiasm into the campaign. and utterly
routed the democrats. carrying every
ward i'm the city. and making a clean
sweep from the top to the bottom of the
ticket. Last spring lie repeated the per
iormancc
So ably were the finances of the cit
conducted during the first fiscal year
of the new regime that this year the
tax rate is the lowest in the city'S his
tory.
With this prestige Mayor Hagcrthy
entered the field for the nomination for
representative and has won. The con-
test was a friendly one throughout. and
the result leaves no i'll feeling The sue
ccssful candidate will have the loyal
support OF the defeated one, ana Oi those
who supported him at the caucus. Hap
PLY there was not, at any stage of the
contest any difference of opinion between
the two candidates or their respective
supporters. ever republican principles or
policies. The nominee will represent the
sentiment of the entire party in the con-
duct of State legislation.
1t goes without saying that DIR. Hag-
CERTIFY will be elected. So demoralized are
the democrats that it has even been
limited that they will make no nomination
for representative. so hopeless would be
the chances of election.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28

They, get some things quicker abroad.
In England they have already begun to
'westrumite" highways: that is to
gay. to sprinkle them with an oily fluid
invented by Dutchman named Van
Westrum, and designed to do away
with dust and mud.-Boston Tran
script.
The idea of using oil to lay the dust
on railroads and highways has already
been tried in this country and has
proved successful though too expensive
for common use. but nobody who has
ever enjoyed 90 New England spring
can conceive how any oily fluid can do
away with mud. Perhaps the mud in
Holland and England differs from the
kind we are favored with.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28
Hiawatha on GARDENING,

| Rake and hoe" said Hiawatha.
Rake and hoe. you hustling husbands
| In the gay suburban districts
Fix your little beds of lettuce,
Cultivate the spicy radish,
Plant the Perfume Kiss, the onion,
| And the tender little beanlet.
Ey the way. my little children,
Have you ever made a garden?
Have you ever hocd and spadcd
Till your backs were nearly broken?
There is ccstacy in digging,
There Is rapture in upturning
All the fertile sand and gravel
out hind the summer Kitchen.
There Is JOY in planting fodder
FOR the Mil Em-Quick, the cutworm.
FIRST you dicker with the grocer
FOR the cunning little SeedletS,
ana the grocer cannot fool you,
For the catalogues you've studied
Ever since the first of April.
Ihen you sneak behind the woodshed.
with the first gray flush of morning.
Ieei your coat and seize a shovel,
Make d bed eighteen by twenty,
Mix IA little fertilizer
lNotc my diction-fertilize)
WITH the sand TO make it mellow,
Then mark off some tiny trenches,
N Nnd 100 a Tar apart. remember
All the seed and close them over
with the sand and fertilizer.
Now that you have made your garden
You begin to watch the surface
For the first green shoot to stragGle
Through the gravel. and you watch it
FOR perhaps weary fortnight.
Ky and by the little rain drops
And spell of sunny weather
Firing the garden sass to greet you;
But. alas, the early radish
Nice string beans and hardy lettuce
Never live to tell the story
OF their childhood recollections
First. old ChillyThing. the North Wind
comes and brings the frost, my dearies,
Nippirg all the vegetation
That is really worth the nipping.
Then the kill-Em-Quick the cut worm,
Chuckles down beneath the surface,
Sharpens up his little molars.
Calls bunch of friends to help him,
Saying. We are in a garden.
Therefore, let us all go to 1t,
Let us paralyZe the lettuce"
That is why | never daily
With the rustic hoe and shovel;
mat is why can't help laughing
When | see my next door neighbor
Working overtime to fashion
In his yard little garden
For old Chilly-Thing the North Wind,
And the Kill-Em- Quick, the cut-worm
milwaukee Sentinel.