Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-04
Chicago 5 BURIAL day.
Unprecedented Demand Exper-
fenced For Hearses and
Carriages
COMPELLED TO DEFER BURIAL
Bad Condition of Streets Increased the
Difficulty, But no Further Trouble
is Expected-Police Are After the
Stage Hand to Whose carlessness.
Disaster is Partly Attributed.

Chicago. Jan. Sunday was day
of funerals IN Chicago. and for the
first time In the history eff the city
sill Of the people who desired to bury
their dead We're unable 10 do SO. The
unprecedented demand for hearses
and carriages would have been enough
in itself to task to the very utmost thu
resources of the undertakers, but the
heavy snow that had fallen during the
last two days. had increased their diff
ficulties enormously. All of the ceme-
teries in Chicago are miles from the
business centers and residence districts
aud with good weather and streets in
passable condition it is matter of
several hours to reach one OF chem.
Sunday. when every hearse was IN ur-
gent demand. ii required about twice
as long to reach Il cemetery IS under
normal conditions. Arrangements
We're made by the under;akers to have
as many funerals S possible held in
the early part of the day. IN order TO
allow. ii possible, the use of the hoarse
for a second funeral in the afternoon.
In a number of cases this WAS done,
but there were instances where the
families who We're to walt fer the re-
turn of the hearse We're disappointed.
and were compelled to defer the burial
OF their loved ones until today. 1t IS
a ., yfi ~
further trouble In this direction.
The cemeteries We're compelled to
keep men at work all thru the night,
digging graves. and in some OF 'he
larger cemeteries. they barely manae-
ed to make them with sufficient speed.
AT one time Sunday afternoon fourteen
burials were in progress In Rose diii
cemetery and all of them were tnT
In terments OF victims of the fire Wei
nesday afternoon.
Buried Side by Side.
In the rooms of one undertaken on
the south side of the city fraternai
organization held services over fNe
members of their order at the sam
time. and all of them were buried side
by side In Waldheim cemetery. me
funeral services over the remains Oh
Ella and Edith Freckelton, sisters wer's
held in Boulevard hall at Fifty-hith
and HaIs,ed streets, fully 1000 persons
being In attendance, and 800 more
stood outside in the biting wind, UNI.
the funeral had departed for oakwooa
cemetery.
In the home of the millionaire man
ufactuter, Ludwig Wolff at 1923 Wash
inrton boulevard, was held the qua"-
ruplex funeral of his daughter, Mrs'
, William H. earn, and her three ciliiu
rem. A crowd of more than l,VoV peu-
nle surrounded the house. and the po-
lice were compelled 10 open passase-
way for the pail bearers when lne!
lar tho house with the caskets Inc
funeral was one of the largest ever
saan on the west side of the city, over
100 carriages. all private equipases, De
10 IN the procession which went TO
Graceland cemetery. ,,,,,,
funeral conducted in an NUMBER
manner was held few squares IRON
the Wolff residence at the same u'he
tho. nj Mrs. earn and her three
children II was that of Mrs. Mary w Z.
Hoist and her three chiidren, ai u
whom died in the Inflated second pa
cony last Wednesday afternoon ~ d
Hoist was sister of eN-ShleI VI
lied Bedenoch and 1t was he VINO iaeii-
titled the bodies of the mother anu M
three children. Fully as many peoPis
were around the small frame churca'
in which this funeral was held, as ga,a
cred outside of Mr.. Wolff's residehees
The police were compelled to open a
massage way for the caskets as tneN
were borne to the hearses. These are
hut Instances of what happened thru
out the length and breadth of chr
cago Sunday. Multiply the funerals
mentioned by twenty and a better idea
can be had of this first Sabbath day
in the new year. The list of dead WAS
increa sed to SIS Sunday by the death OF
DeRoy Rainbold. a boy of years. who
was severely burned and died In -.
Lukes hospital. OF the ten bodies at
the county morgue. four were identified
Sunday. They we,e
Fair. Mrs Mary a.
Ludwig, Sadie.
Lemenager. Dorothy, ID years.
Reynolds, Emma. years.
The injured now number 103, of
whom there is record. altho the number
of those who were hurt slightly would
swell this number greatly. Numbers
of people Went to their homes after
the fire without reporting themselves
TO the police as injured.
Outside of the numerous funerals
that were held in the city. ii was
the first day of rest the city has
known since last "Wednesday after
noon. Less than twenty persons cat
ed at the Office of the chief police
for permits to visit morgues. and few
people We're at the hospitals.
Police After Schmidt.
John Schmidt. the stage hand VINO
was said to have left open the reflector
which prevented the asbestos curtain
from descending, is still sought by the
police. He is believed to be In hiding
in the city. but the chief of police re-
ceived an intimation from his friends
that Schmidt will be ready when he $
wanted as a witness at the coroners
inquest.
Talk in Sleep Leads to Divorce.
Chicago, Jan. 4.-Because her hus
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