The Cairo bulletin., 1904-01-02
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Chicago, Jan. 1.-Such a day of
mourning was never witnessed as that
which ushered in the new year. In
every portion of the city almost it
seemed as though there were funerals
goining, or undertaker's wagons ar
irving with the dead who were being
brought to their homes for the last
time.
While the funeral professions were
moving to the various cemeteries, the
throngs about the morgues and un-
dertaking establishments seemed al.
most as large as ever. The scenes
here were the same as those of the
past two days and nights. Many men
we're In line at Ralstons and Jordan's
morgues this afternoon who had been
ON their feet 4S hours constantly
searching for those they had lost.
The greast number OF dead are in
these two places. and men who had
viewed the
Ghastly Rows OF Corpeses
before and had gone on an unavailing
search to other morgues and under
taking rooms in the city to which
the dead from the theatre mad been
taken, came back once more to Raj
ston's and Jordans almost in despair,
but. hoping against hope that they
might have overlooked their dead in
the great number that had crowded
the tables and floors Thursday
morning.
In some cases they were successful.
in many others they were not Prac-
tically all bodies which admit of care.
full Identification have been carried
away, and Of those remaining the
majority are in such condition that
only the most minute inspection will
beable to reveal their identity to those
who knew them best.
One of the Saddest Cases
was that of Herbert and Agnes Lange
of 1882 Barry avenue. Both children
had attended the performance and
after many weary hours of searching
the brokenhearted father finally found
his daughter In the undertaking estab
iishment. Lang. almost exhausted
through his continuous trips from
morgue to morgue. hospital to hos
pital. from police stations to coroner's
office and back through the weari
some round again and again, came
this afternoon In utter despair 10 the
office of Chief of Police O'Neill and
begged for detectives to assist him
He also pleaded with the newspaper
men, and his voice choked and failed
as he referred to his wife. who lay
utterly prostrated at their home. Lang
said these were his only children
The police and newspaper men prom
ised him every assistance, though they
themselves were almost worn out
Finally the body of the girl was found
and the brokenhearted father smiled
through his tears as he gathered uT
the little form. and carried 1t to a car
riage. The absolute failure of Lani
to identify any one of the bodies as
that of his son aroused some hope
that the boy may still be alive ant
cared for in some hospital
When Lange reached his home will
the body he was greeted by his wife
who told him their two children hat
returned home this evening in safety
They had been lost and wandered
about the city. Lange at once return
ed to the morgue with the body h'
had thought was that of his own child
Clergymen and LIveryHen.
Clergymen of the city are almost ex
hausted in their efforts to corduc
funerals from the homes of thei
psrishioners. All day they went from
house to house TO conduct funeral ser
vices and minister to the grief stric,
en- members of their focks Livery
men we're overwhelmed with demand
for carriage for funerals and the nun
ber sent to each was necessarily lin
tied to the smallest possible to conve
Immediate relatives to the cemetery.
This was the situation in Chicag
today. and tomorrow IT will be intens
fed The coroners' Office today issue
nearly 300 burial certificates for pee
pie killed In the FIRE. Some of thes
were fer people residing in othe