The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 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 Dead Increased TO 5SS-
Fourteen Funerals of victims
of the Fire Were in Prog
re.E ut One Time.

Chicago, Jan. 4.-Sunday was a day OF
funerals IN Chicago, and for the first
time in the history Of the city all peo-
pie who desired to bury their dead
were unable TO do so. The unprece-
Gented 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, it is a matter
Of several hours to reach n Of them.
Sunday, when every hearse was in ur-
gent demand, it required about twice
as long TO reach a cemetery as unde
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 a second funeral in the afternoon.
Hearses 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
and were compelled to defer theb burial
of their loved mes 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 a 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
IA burials were in progress in Rose
Hill cemetery, and all of them were
iaterments 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 yer the members Of
their order at the same time, and all
of them were buried side by side in
Waldheim cemetery.
Largest Funeral in Chicago.
In the home of the millionaire manu-
facturer, Ludwig Wolff, at 1929 Wash
ington boulevard, was held the quad
ripple funeral of his daughter, Mrs.
William H. earn, 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 ESS.
These are but instances of what hap
pened throughout the length and
breadth of Chicago Sunday. Multiply
the funerals mentioned by 90, and a
better idea can be had of this first Sab
bath day in the new year. The list of
dead was increased to 5SS Sunday By
the death of Leroy Rainbold, a boy of
four years, who was severely burned
and died in St. Luke's hospital. or
the ten 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 1umerousu funerals thai
were held in the city Sunday, 1t was
the first day of rest the city has known
since last Wednesday afternoon. Less
than twenty persons called at the Of
fee of the chief of police for permits
to visit morgues, and few people were
at the hospitals.
Every Thenter Ordered Closed.
Saturday night every theater in the
city of Chicago was dark and its doors
we're locked. Not one of them will be
open 70 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 a "postponement OF
the order, hut their reception was Of
an exceedingly frosty nature.
hentc Proprietors Arrested.
Will ]. Davis and HarryPowers, pro-
p~rietors of the ~Iroquois theater, and
Building Commissioner Williams are
under arrest, charged with manslaugh-
ter. They have been released on s10,-
900 bonds, and their hearing is set for
January IL.
To Sign AnGIo-ItnIian Treaty.
London, Jan. 4-The Anglo-Italian