The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1904-01-02
.BURYiNG
THE DEAD
This Was Day of Funerals I'm Chicago
and Nearly All Business Was
Suspended.
Managers oflroquois Tneater Arrested
On Manslaughter Charge Many
Theaters Closed.

Chicago, Jan. 2-Church bells be-
gan tolling at noon and business stop
ped Many celebrations were post
poned and long lines OF funerals on the
way to the cemeteries gave outward
evidence of Chicago's grief today. Ali
the city business except the most inn
portant was stopped, except the banks.
1t was announced in The
Inter Ocean this morning that
warrants were issued last night for the
arrest of Will J. Davis and Harry
Powers, proprietors and managers Of
the Iroquois Theatre, The warrants
were sworn to by Arthur E. Hull. who
lost his wife and three children in the
fire and charge manslaughter. The
men were notified by telephone to ap-
pear before Justice Underwood and
give bonds. IL -
Superintendent OF Schools Cooley
said twenty-four teachers in the public
schools were killed in the Iroquois FIRE
and six are still missing.
Managers Davis and Powers were
formally charged with manslaughter
and held under bonds of $4,000 each
Coroner Traeger has discovered much
new evidence throwing light on the re-
sponsibility of the disaster.
Mayor Harrison has ordered all
theatres in the city closed until it has
been satisfactorily shown they are COM
plying with the building ordinance.
| The total number of corpses recover-
ed is $50. Another unidentified body
OF woman, overlooked, has been
found i'll Jordan's morgue. A ticket
was found on the body from Detroit
Ito Chicago AZ -.
i "A thorough analysis nf the asfsestDs
Icurtain IS being made By thc: risx elseslls
lists. he curtain was consaffied bs The
ilatllSs although slse sei'Slin
4 fIreproof curtain such as gsiiiiiiir II ss
| bestos.
Four more missing arc reported
/ Mayor Carter Harrison took steps ID
iprovide as far as possible against a repc-
tition Of Wednesdays horror at the
| 1roquois Theatre. AS result of aii
made at his orders and
lasting only few hours, nineteen
theatres and museums were ordered
closed, some OF them being among the
leading and most popular playhotiscs
| in Chicago. The action of the mayor
was based OH the single violation of tin
ordinances which are intended to prs
tect the patrons of theatres from jv
such an occurrence as that which cost
SO many lives or "Wednesday. This
was that everyone of these places had
failed to supply an asbestos curtain The
theatres ordered closed are: Howards,
Sam II Jacks, Marlowc, New Ameri-
can, Olympic, Academy of Music, Al
hambra, Avenue, Bijou, Chicago Opera
House, Columbus, Thirty-first Street,
Criterion, Fiegenbatin's, Milwaukee
Avenue, Garrick lin Milwaukee Ave
nue1 and Glickmafl's In addition to
these the London Globe Museum and
the Clark Street Museum were also com
PEELED to close their doors.
The Chicago Opera House and the
Olympic Theatre are high-class vaude-
vile houses and probably do as much
business in point of numbers as any
OF the theatres in Chicago at single per
formances. They give, however. matt
nee every day in the week and ii is
seldom that seats can be obtained for
any performance at the time Of opening.
| In addition to this they have been ac-
custorned to selling large number Of
tickets for standing room, and as i
general thing more people are within
| these places of amusement at an average
performance than can be found at any
other playhouse iii the city
Ii may not be possible, said Mayor
Harrison. 10 prevent loss of life when
audiences rush for the doorways, but
4 have determined to see that every
|precaution is taken to prevent such oc-
currences as will alarm the people and
start them ON rush for the exits. II
lis all very well to say that the great
loss of life in the Iroquois theatre was
due to the fact that the people lost
| their heads and crowded into tlie door
ways and aisles like maniacs, but the
fact remains, and IT cannot be denied,
| that there would have been no panic
| If the apparatus in this theatre which.
Judged by all ordinary standards, was
/ the best equipped playhouse in the city,
Ihad been In proper working condition
There Is no getting beyond that fact
From all the evidence now ia hand 1t
lis clear. that il the asbestos curtain III
ifhis theatre had been lii the condition
Fit should have been, there would saavk
beer, no loss Of life, comparatively
The entife family of Frederick 81
Pond. for tlirt, three years cashier Of
| the Deeriug reaper works Was extkf-
minated by the ere. Iii the disaster mn
| Pond lost his wife and two children; alI
lof whom have been identified "A sister
lpf Mrs. Pond; Miss Grace Tuttle. Is stilI
Iasnong the m1issiiig. Helen, 7zyear-
Ioid DAUGHTER az M Is Pond. Was fdefil;37e{