Fair play., 1904-01-09
WORK ALL NIGHT
DIGGING GRAVES
Chicago For the First Time In His
tory Unable to Bury Its Dead.
HEARSES % DOUBLE DUTY
The List of Dend Increased 90 oSS-
Fourteen Funerals of Victims
Of ths Fire Were in Prog
res- NJ One Time.

res- ~ one Timc.
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Chicago, Jan. 4--Sunday was day Of |
funerals IN Chicago and for the first |
lime in the ls,ury of II city all pro- .
pie who desired to bury their dcad /
were unable 10 do 50. The unprecc- |
Gented demand for hearscs and carm- |
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 it is a matter |
of several hours to reach one of them. |
Sunday, when every hearse was in ur-
gent demand. it 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
HcarScs Doing Double DUTY.
In a number Of cases this was done,
but in a number OF instances where
the families who were to await the
return Of the hearse, were disappointed
end 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.
Disging 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
II burials were in progress in Rose
Hill cemetery. and all OF them were
lnterments of victims Of the fire last
Wednesday afternoon.
Over Two thousand MOurnrrS.
III lllP GOOlllS Oh one HIVtl lihtl bll
the south side, early a fraternal soci-
| ETY. held services over the members Of
their order at the same time, and all
of them were buried side by side in
Waldheim cemetery
Lurgcst Funeral in ChiCnGo.
In the home of the millionaire manu-
facturer. Ludwig Wolff, at 1929 Wash
ington boulevard, was held the quad
ruplc 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 a pass
age way for the pall-bearers.
Dead Now Numbers SIS.
These arc but instances Of what hap
pened throughout the length and
| breadth of Chicago Sunday. Multiply
| the funerals mentioned by 20, and
better idea can be had of this first Sab
! bath day in the new year. The list Of
! dead was increased 10 5SS Sunday by
th3 death Of Leroy Rainbold, a boy of
| four years, who was severely burned
and died in st, Luke's hospital. OF
| the ten bodies at the county morgue,
| iOur were ldenllned 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
| ~
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 al the Of
! fee of the chief Of police for permits
to visit morgues, and few people were
al the hospitals.
Every Trcnter ordered closed.
Saturday night every theater in the
city of Chicago was dark and it's doors
were locked. Not one Of them will be
open "a the public until their mar
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-
ris0n in the effort 10 secure the with
drawaI or at least a postpnnement OF
the order. Int their reception was of
an exceedingly Iosty nature.
Theatcr proprictors Arrested.
VIII J, Davis and HarryPowers, pro-
pretors of the lroquois thoater, and
Building Commissioner Williams are
under arrest, charged with manslaugh-
ter They have been released on $10,-
O00 bonds, ana their hearing is set for
| January r.