The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-02

chicago, Jan. Z.-CnuTCH DeliS toll-
ing at noon, business activity checked,
many celebrations postponed and long
lines of funerals making their way to
the outlying districts where the ceme-
teries are situated-these circum-
stances evidenced Chicago's outward
grief for the victims of the Iroquois
theater disaster to-day. Priests and
ministers of the gospel went from
funeral to funeral to-day as they will
! tomorrow and NJ onday.
The unidentified dead will be kept as
long as possible at the morgues. II
no one then comes to lay claim to the
bodies, they will be buried at the city
expense. BY common assent of the
! clergy, Lead, Kindly Light the
hymn written by Cardinal Newman, is
being sung at all the funerals.
The city hall. except absolutely
| necessary departments, was closed to-
| day. The Board of Trade closed an
hour earlier than usual and number
| of mercantile and manufacturing es-
4 Establishments also closed early The
(. large retail dry goods stores were
notable exception. The managers
A mand for mourning goods would work
4 q hardship to the bereaved friends of
4 the dead should these stores close.
4 The banks were open as usual.
A Thirty-four teachers In the public
4 schools are known to have lost their
~ w
4 closed Monday in their memory.
" Henning Children Lost.
IN A futile search has been conducted
SO far for the body of Harold, the
z 51s-year- son of E. Henning. Hos
pital after hospital has been visited
i by the father of the boy and other
relatives without success. 1.-THE boy,
with his three brothers and his moth
ar, were at the Iroquois when the fire
\ broke out.
The mother IN some manner was
z barely saved by an unknown rescuer.
iShe believed her boys were behind her
when she started to run from the
ftheater, but the bodies of three were
later picked up and taken to under
taking rooms, where they were iden-
Titled by the father. Mrs. Henning
q, twas badly injured but her injuries are
mot fatal.
Another unidentified body of a
woman that had been overlooked was
= found at Jordan's morgue.
a A. thoro analysis of the composition
4 of the asbestos curtain Of the Iro-
@quois Is being made by the city
chemist. 1t was consumed by the
1iflames, altho the ordinance requires
IA fireproof curtain.
n Among the missing reported to-day
are the following:
Reynolds. Mrs. William o.
- Strawbridge, Mrs. A. G.
e Reynolds. Josephine, years old.
Il Frazer, James, PEORIA Ill.
M These were identified to-day:
Clarence j. Thompson.
Miss Gertrude Fitzpatrick.
Harry Ludwig.
r. s. Thompson
II Mrs. Marian w. Gibbs
Nancy Hanson.
r. New Evidence Discovered.
N A mass of new evidence which
throws important light on the Iroquois
heater fire was obtained from stage
employees by Coroner Traeger to-day
Ind will be submitted to the coroner's
Jury when that body meets Thursday
0 hear testimony. Coroner Traeger
has learned that Stage Carpenter
Cummings is the man who superin-
Tended the fitting out of the rigging
oft and was responsible to the own
RS of the theater for the operation
II everything on the stage. If the
fity ordinances were not complied
With in regard to the necessary safe
yards against fire behind the cur
ain, it was Cummings duty to mott
" the owners and managers of the
Iouse.
r j. c. Dougherty, who is now in one
! f the hospitals suffering from a
iroken leg, was the man who at
ampted to lower the asbestos cur
ain. He says the reason it stuck and
gould not come down was that il
truck on the arc spot light in the
-rst entrance near the top of the pro-
cenium arch.
Cause OF Explosion"
From the stage hands Coroner
tiraeger learned the cause of the
Mysterious explosion which occurred
lhortly after the fire was discovered
was caused by the falling Of the
liz fan scene which contained eighty
lcandescent electric lights This
.ene was not in use at the time OF
lie fire, but was set in the rear OF
lie stage The opening of the double
oors In the rear of the stage created
draft which caused the big far
;ene to topple over and break the
.candescent bulbs. This produced g
ose like an explosion. The stage
;lnds deny that there was a calcium
nix on the stage at the time Of the
- Re.
Coroner Traeger has learned that
i tch of the $50 drop scenes in the
~teater was hung with new, oily ma
la rope. 1t is estimated that there
ere $4,000 lineal feet of this inf1am-
able material used in supporting the
!rop scenes and that it added fue
4 the flames in the rigging aloft.
Entire Family Differentiated.
The entire family of Frederick s.
iond, for thirty-three years cashier
- the Deering Reaper Works, was ex-
animated by the fire. In the disaster
IL. Pond lost his wife and two chill
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