The Dickinson press., 1904-01-02
HUNDREDS HIjl|[|R KILLED
IN CHICAGO BLAZE
APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE oc.
OURS DURING A FIRE IN THE
IRooUoIs THEATER.
PEOPLE ARE PANIC STRICKEN
SCORES OF PERSONS TRAMPLEn
TO DEATH IN THE FRANTIC
RUSH FOR SAFETY.
OVER FIVE HUNDRED DEAD
DOZENS OF OTHERS ARE HURT
AND SEVERAL MORE ARE RE-
PORTED AS MISSING.
PEOPLE ARE PANIC STRICKEN
OVER FIVE HUNDRED DEAD

More than five hundred and fifty
dead, ninety-two injured and fifty-five
missing is, in brief, the result of the
fire in the Iroquois theater at Chicago
Wednesday afternoon. Scores Of peo.
pie were trampled into a shapeless,
unacceptable pulp and many others
were burned and charred beyond all
hope Of Identification. The city is one
vast house Of mourning, with thou
sands Of people crowding around the
repositories of the dead, seeking for
some missing friend or relative.
Chicago, Dec. 31.-About $50 per-
sons were killed in ten minutes
Wednesday afternoon during fire in
the Iroquois theater, the newest, the
largest and as far as human power
could make it, the safest theater in
Chicago. Estimates of the dead and
Injured vary. The police count of
dead Is 536. The estimate of the
newspapers is $50. Besides this there
are fifty-five missing at midnight, the
majority Of whom are probably among
the dead in the morgue and various
undertaking establishments. Eighty
six Of the dead have been positively
identified. and ninety-two others are
known to be injured
A few Of these people were burned
to death by fire, many were suffocated
by gas, and scores were trampled to
death in the panic that followed the
mad plunge Of the frightened audience
for the exits. It will be many hours
before the number of dead is accurate
ly known and many days before all
OF them Will be identified. There are
bodies lying by the dozens in the un.
dertaking rooms, in the police station,
and in the hospitals from which near
ly everything that could reveal their
identity to those who knew them best
is gone. Their clothing is torn to
rags or burned to cinders and their
faces have been trampled into an un-
recognizable pulp by the heels of the
crowd that trampled them down as
they fled for safety.
PARTIAL LIST OF THOSE
KILLED IN THE DISASTER.
Among the known dead are:
Mortimer Eldridge, Helen Boyer.
soth, Rev. Henry L. Richardson, Louis
Kisner and wife, Thomas J. Flanagan,
Mrs. G. A. Henry, Rose K. Rogers, H.
H. Moore, G. L. Cooper, May Curran,
boy named Martin" E. Moses, H. w.
Williams, B. Regenberg, Ella Linden,
Bernice Bailey, A. Mandel, Donald
Wells, Burr Scott, Fornetta Peterson,
Harvey Keller, Thomas Courtell,
Emily Hall, Henning, boy; Walter
B. Eisler, - Nueir, Mrs. Emma
Bricnckley, Hoyt Fox, Richard and
Allen Hoist, Harold Martin, John Hol
| land, Lulu Shabbard, w. N. Prang
Charles H. Kohl, Mrs. Dawson, Will
lam Bull, Robert Martin, Walter Bes.
singer, Margaret Buerman, Mrs Leo
Wolff, Alice Kaufman, Helen Howard
Helen Cooper, B. L. Gould, Mrs. F. A
Morrill,, Mrs. A. Sullivan, Miss Edith
Horton, Mrs. Harbaugh, Irene Lang;
Hortense Lang, E. A. Wilson, Mrs. w
T. Marsh, Mrs. Donnelly, three stage
employees, Mrs. Patrick P. O'Donnell
Otto Wattman, W. H. Coults, Miss
Howard, Miss Ross, Walter B. Zeisler
G. Sidney Fox, Mrs c. D. Bartlett
Mrs. John A. Daneck, Gertrude Falken
stein. Mrs. w. T. Boise, Mrs. William
Dawson, William Beurtel, Mary D
GartZ, Louise Buschwah, Leigh Hol
land, J. Graham, Will McGary, Lean
der Deffendorf. Paul Windes, Mrs
Morton Fox, Annie Moak, Walter
Phacker. James Mcclellan, Pauline
Geary, and seventy-five unidentified
dead at Randolph morgue