The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-01-01
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| tional committeeman from Illinois,
spent the entire night hunting for Mrs.
| F. M. Fox. of Winnekta, ILL.,, and her
| three children
| Mrs. Fox is the daughter of w.
Hoyt. who was president of the w
NJ. Hoyt Grocery company, one of the
wealthiest concerns of the kind In the
| west.
| Mrs. Fox was taken home, but none
OF the children were found.
Mr.. Stewart said that the hand
| kerchief of Hoyt Fox, IL years old.
| had been found In the pockets of
suit upon the body of boy at one or
the morgues. There is no doubt that
| 1t is the boy. although the features
cannot be identified.
There was a pathetic scene at Roll
| ston's morgue when the body of John
Vaningen. eighteen years old, of Ke-
| nosha. Wis, was identified. Son1e
| friends of the family had spent many
hours searching for the boy at the
'equest of his parents. who were In
Jured. Today four Of the vaningen
children who are believed to have per-
shed In the fire had not been account
a for.
| One Of the saddest Of many scenes
enacted In Thompsons restaurant near
| he theater where many of the dead
md wounded were taken Immediately
| after the fire, was the hunt by a party
| II priests and nuns. headed by Rev.
T. L. Hollinger. of ontonagon, Mich.
or Edith Horton and her sister, young
| sirls who. in company with one OF the
| convent sisters, had attended the per-
'crmsnce. The body OF Edith Horton
vas found in the restaurant. many of
he nuns breaking Rdown and weep
ne bitterly at the sight.
The other Horton girl and the sis
er who accompanied them were not
ound
Charl,s Dexter. of the Boston base
)all club, and Frank Housman. the
I'D Chicago second baseman, with
heir families. occupied box. Both
laimed that but fol the presence of
~F
would have been doubled. When the
,anic began Dexter and Housman each
made for and manned a door. leading
nto the alley on the north side of the
iuilding. The people from the bal
,onies had already commenced Jump
ng to the ground floor when Housman
nd Dexter forced open their doors and
hey were compelled to lift away the
raimIu and the dead in otder TO per-
nit tis exits from the ground floor.
Housman having escorted his party
'ut, took a position at This door and
Kept 1t from choking up by assisting
people through.
Finally. forced away by the flames.
Housman got into the alley just In
ime to hear the agonized voice of a
woman from the window in an UPPER
gallery shrek Catch me-" AS the
woman screamed she jumped and Mr..
Housman. catching her to the best
of his ability, broke her fall to the
ground and she walked away unin-
jured.
Clinton c. Meeker. a clerk In the re-
gular division of postoffice. living In
the suburb of Irving Park, has prob
ably lost in the fire his entire family,
consisting of his wife, two sons and
wo daughters.
A friend called Mr.. Meeker to the
telephone at four o'clock in the after
noon and asked him If any of his fam
ly had gone to the theater. He ans
wered that as far as he knew none
Of them had left home. When he
reached the house. however. he found
only his mother-in-law there.
Where are Mabel ana the children"
he asked.
They have gone to the Iroquois the
ater." was the reply.
Il dropped right down on my knees
and prayed that God might spare
them" said Mr. Meeker. Today Mr..
Meeker had partially Identified the
bodies of his wife ana two daughters.
He failed to find any trace of his two
sons.
When the Rev. II. O'Brien of the
Holy Name Cathedral learned of the
fire he hurried to the old fremont
mouse, now converted into the North
western University law school, into
which many victims had been taken