Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-01-09
WORK ALL NIGHT
DIGGING GRAVES
Chicago For the First Time In His
tory Unable to Bury Its Dead.
HEARSES DO DOUBLE DUTY
The List of Dcnd Increased 10 5SS-
Fourteen Funerals of Victims
of the fire Were In Prog
reLB ut One Time.

Chicago, Jan. 4.--Sunday was day OF
funerals IN Chicago, and for the first
time in the history of the cityt all peo-
pie who desired to bury their dead
were unable to do so. The unprece-
dented demand for hearses and carri-
ages would have been enough In Itself
to task to the very utmost the re-
sources of the undertakers, but the
heavy snow that has fallen during the
last two days has increased their diff
ficulties enormously. All of the ceme-
teries in Chicago are miles from he
business center and residence districts,
and with good weather and the streets
in passable condition, 1t Is a matter
Sunday, when every hearse was in ur-
gent demand 1t required about twice
as long TO reach a cemetery as under
normal conditions Arrangements were
made by the undertakers to have as
many funerals as possible held in the
early part of the day, in orded to al
low If possible of the use of the hearse
for second funeral in the afternoon.
Hcarses Doing Double Duty.
In a number of cases this was done,
but in a number of instances, where
the families who we're to await the
return of the hearse, we're disappointed
and were compelled to defer the burial
of their loved ones until to-day. 1t
is not expected that there will be any
further trouble in this direction, and
by to-day the streets to the cemeteries
will be in such condition as to per-
nit of the passage Of funerals in al
most the ordinary time.
DIGGING Graves All Night.
The cemeteries were compelled to
keep men at work all through the
night digging graves, and in some of
the larger cemeteries they barely man
aged to make them with sufficient
speed At one time Sunday afternoon
ID burials were in progress In Rose
Hill cemetery, and all of them were
interments of victims of the fire last
Wednesday afternoon.
Over Two Thousand Mourners
In the rooms of one undertaken on
the south side, early a fraternal soci-
ETY. held services over the members of
thelt order at the same time, and all
Of them were D~Iisd Side hs,,side ID
Waldheim cemetery. .a,
Largest Funeral In Chicago.
In the home of the millionaire manu-
facturer, Ludwig Wolff, at 1929 Wash
ington boulevard, was held the quad
ruple funeral of his daughter, Mrs.
William II. Garn, and her three chill
dren. A crowd of more than 1000
people surrounded the house and the
police were compelled to open pass
age way for the pall-bearers.
Dead Now Numbers bSs.
These are but instances of what hap
pened throughout the length and
breadth of Chicago Sunday. Multiply
the funerals mentioned by 20, and a
better idea can be had of this first Sab
bath day in the new year. The list of
dead was increased to 58S Sunday by
the death Of Leroy Rainbold, boy Of
four years, who was severely burned
and died in st. Lukes hospital. OF
- ,en bodies at the county morgue,
four were identified Sunday.
First Day of Rest.
The injured, of whom there is any
record, now number 1903, although the
number of those who were hurt slight
ly would swell this number greatly.
Numbers of people went to their homes
after the fire without reporting them
selves to the police as injured.
Outside the aumerousu funerals that
were held in the city Sunday, it was
the first day of rest the city has known
since last Wednesday afternoon Less
than twenty persons called at the Of
flee of the chief of police for permits
to visit morgues, and few people were
at the hospitals.
Every Theater Ordered Closed.
Saturday night every theater in the
city of Chicago was dark and its doors
were locked, Not one of them will be
open to the public until their man
ayers have complied in the fullest man
ner with every section of the ordi-
nances regulating playhouses.
There was a hasty rush of theatrical
managers to the Office of Mayor Har-
rison in the effort to secure the with
drawal, or at least postponement OF
the order. hut their reception was Of
an exceedingly fiosty nature.
Theater PrOprietors Arrested.
Will ]. Davis and HarryPowers, pro-
prietors of the Iroquois theater, and
Building Commissioner Williams are
under arrest, charged with manslaugh-
ter. They have been released on $l0,-
900 bonds, and their hearing is set for
January ~.
To Sign AngIO-ItaIian Treaty.
London, Jan. 4.-The Anglo-Italian
arbitration &reaty, which is on practi-
cally the same lines as the Anglo
French treaty, is expected to be signed
this week The agreement has already
bann droy IN h1y Enraipn Secretary