The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-04

CHICAGO. Jan. 3.-TOday was q day
of funerals in Chicago, ard yet
many were unable to bury their
dead. The unprecedented demand for
hearses Id carriages would have been
enough in itself to task the very ut
most resources Of the undertakers, but
the heavy snow that has fallen during
the last two days has increased their
difficulties enormously. Ali of the
cemeteries in Chicago are miles from
the business center and resident dis
triets and with good weather and the
streets in passable condition it is a
matter of several hours to reach any
of them. Today, when every hearse
was in demand, it required about twice
as long to reach a cemetery as under
normal conditions. Arrangements
were made by the undertakers to have
as many funerals as possible held iIs
the early part of the day, in order to
allow. If possible, the use of the hearse
for. a second funeral in the afternoon.
In many instances families who wait
ed for the return of the heaTse were
disappointed and were compelled to
defer the burial of their loved ones.
1t is expected that by tomorrow the
streets will be IN such a condition az
TO permit Of the passage Of funerals in
almost the ordinary time.
Graves Dug at 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 today fourteen
burials were in progress in Rose Hill
cemetery, all of them victims of We'd
nesday's fire.
In the rooms OF one undertaken a
frateTnal organization held servic'
over five members Of their order at
the same time. The funeral services
over the remains of Ella and Edith
Freckelton, sisters. were held in BoUle-
ward hall. Fully 2.600 people were in
attendance, and 500 more stood out
side in the biting wind until the fu-
neral had departed for the cemetery.
in the nome of the millionaire man
ufacturer. Ludwig Wolff, was held the
quadruple funeral of his daughter
Mrs. William H. earn, and her three
children. A crowd of more than LOCO
people surrounded the house and the
police We're compelled 10 open a pas
sageway for the pallbearers.
The funeral was one of the largest
ever seen on the west side of the city.
Hundreds Gathered.
A funeral conducted in a humber
manner was held a few squares from
the Wolff residence at the same time.
II was that Of Mrs. Mary W. Hoist
and her three children, all of whom
died in the Inflated second balcony.
ME-. Hoist was a sister Of eX-Chief Of
Police BadenOch. and it was he who
identified the bodies Of the mother and
her three children. Fully as many peo-
PIE were around the small frame
church in which this funeral gathered
as outside the pretentiOus Wolff man
sion. and here, too. the police were
compelled to open a passsgeway for
the Caskets as they were borne TO the
I heaTses.
These are but instances Of what
happened throughout the length and
bIe adth Of Chicago today. Multiply the
/ funerals mentioned by twenty and a
better idea can be had of this first
Sabbath day in the rev year
Death List Increased.
The list of dead was increased to 5sS
today by the death of Leroy Rainboit.
= Dts u p Ftaf~r ~ GtN " aE 0Ef EItAf
burned. OF the ten bodies at the coun-
~ moTgue. four were identified today.
They We're:
Fair, Mrs. Mary A.
Ludwig, Sadie.
Lemager. Dorothy. Is years.
Reynolds, Emma, years.
The injured Of whom there Is any
record now number 10S although the
number of those who were hurt slight
" 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 Of the numerous funerals
that were held TO-DAY. il vas the first
day of rest the city has known since
last Wednesday afternoon. Less than
twenty persons called at the Office Of