The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-08
It WAS A DAY Of FUNERALS
CHICAGO SPENT SUNDAY IN
BURYING VICTIMS.
Was not Enough Hearses to Supply
Demand-Heavy Snow Retarded
Progress-Some Funerals Deferred a
Day-Men Worked All Night in
Cemeteries-TotaI Dead 588.

of funerals in Chicago and yet 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 undertakers 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
defer the burial Of their beloved ones.
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 Wed
nesdays fire.
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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
manufactures, 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 a passageway for the pail
bearers.
Funeral of Clarence 3. 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
Millionaire company, who was burned
to death in the Iroquois theater fire
in Chicago Rev. DIR. A. w. Hammis
drawing a lesson from the sham pro
lection of the theater, said:
God gives a 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.
funeral conducted in a humble
manner was neld a few squares IRON
the Wolff residence at the same time
If was that of Mrs. Mary H. Hoist anC
her three children. all of whom diet
in the Inflated second balcony Mrs
Hoist was a sister of ex-Chief of Pc
lice Badenoch, and it was he wh'
identified the bodies of the mothe
and her three children. Fully as man!
neonle we're around the small frame
church in which this funeral gathered
&c outside the pretentious Wolff man
sion and here, too, the police wer'
compelled to open passageway 10
the caskets as they were borne TO Tn
baarses. These are but instances o
what happened throughout the lengtl
and breadth of Chicago today. Mu
tiply the funerals mentioned by 20 an
q hotter idea can be had of this hrs
sabbath day in the new year.
The list of dead was increased t
6SS nv the death of Leroy Rainbol
how of 4 years. who was severed
burned.
Of the ten bodies at the count
morgue. four more were identified
They we're: Mrs. Mary A. Fair, Sadi
Indwig, Dorothy Lemager, 1S years
Emma Reynolds, z years.
The injured of whom there is an
record now number 1903, although tn
number Of those who were hurt Sigh
" would swell this number great.
Numbers of people went to the
homes after the fire without repor
ing themselves to the police as Il
jured.
Outside of the numerous funera
that we're held Sunday it was the frs
day of rest the city has known sine
wednesday afternoon. Less than
nersons called at the Office of I'll
chief of police for permits to Wis
morgues and few people were at I'll
hospitals.