Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-08
It WAS A DAY Of FUNERALS
CHICAGO SPENT SUNDAY IN
BuRYING VICTIMS.
Was not Enough Hearses to Supply
Demant-Heavy Snow Retarded
Pro1ress-Some Funerals Deferred a
Day-Men Worked All Night in
Cemeteres-TotaI Dead 598.

OF numerals Ill SHlCaSO anu yeL many
were unable to bury their dead. The
unprecedented demand for hearses and
carriages would have been enough in
itself to task to the very utmost the
resources of the undertakers, but the
heavy snow that has fallen during the
last two days has increased their diff
ficulties enormously. All of the Gene
teries in Chicago are miles from the
business center and resident districts
and with good weather and the
streets in passable condition it Is a
matter of several hours to reach any
of them. Sunday, when every hearse
was in demand, It required about twice
as long to reach cemetery as under
normal conditions. Arrangements were
made by the undeItakers to have as
many funerals as possible held in the
early part OF the day IN order to al
low, If possible, the use of the hearses
for a second funeral in the afternoon.
In many instances families who wait.
ed for the return Of the hearses were
disappointed and were compelled to
ueleT ire DuTidi VI tneil DeloNSu ohSs'
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 fourteen
burials were in progress in Rosehill
cemetery, all of them victims of We'd
nesdays fire.
In the rooms of one undertaken a
fraternal organization held services
over five members of their order at
the same time. The funeral services
over the remains of Ella and Edith
Freckelton, sisters, was held in Boule-
ward hall. Fully 1000 people were in
attendance and 500 more stood out
side In the biting wind until the fun
eral had departed for the cemetery.
In the home of the millionaire
manufacturer. Ludwig Wolff, was held
the quadruple funeral of his daughter,
Mrs. William H. earn, and her three
children. A crowd of more than one
thousand persons surrounded the
house and the police were compelled
to open passageway for the pail,
bearers. I
Funeral of Clarence g.. Scott.
Binghampton. N. Y. Jan. 4.-One
of the most largely attended funerals
ever held here was that of Clarence
Burr Scott, Harry Judson," Of the
Billionaire company, who was burned
to death in the Iroquois theater fire
in Chicago. Rev. DR.. A. W. Hammis,
drawing lesson from the sham pro-
lection of the theater, said:
"God gives protection to those
who trust in IN that drops down
in time of temptation and is made Of
asbestos and not of burlap."
Funeral of the hoIsts.
A funeral conducted in a humble
manner was neld few squares from
the Wolff residence at the same time.
1t was that of Mrs. Mary H. Hoist and
her three children. all of whom died
in the ill-tated second balcony. Mrs.
Hoist was sister of ex-Chief of Po-
ilSC badChoShy anu II wac uC WIN
identified the bodies of the mother
and her three children. Fully as many
people were around the small frame
church in which this funeral gathered
as outside the pretentious Wolff man.
sion. and here, too, the police were
compelled to open a passageway for
the caskets as they were borne to the
hearses. These are but instances of
what happened throughout the length
and breadth of Chicago today. Null
tiply the funerals mentioned by 20 and
better idea can be had of this first
Sabbath day in the new year.
The list of dead was increased to
5SS, by the death of Leroy Rainbolt,
a boy of 4 years, who was severely
burned.
OF the ten bodies at the county
morgue. four more were identified.
They we're: Mrs. Mary A. Fair Sadie
Ludwig, Dorothy Lemager, 10 years;
Emma Reynolds, years.
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 report.
ing themselves to the police as in
jured.
Outside of the numerous funerals
that were held Sunday 1t was the first
day of rest the city has known since
Wednesday afternoon. Less than 90
persons called at the Office of the
chief of police for permits to visit
morgues and few people were at the
hospitals.
Any harness will chafe II you fret