The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-01-01
Latest Information Is That
5S2 Dead Have Been Taken
from Burned Thedter
NEARLY 200 ARE YET MISSING
The List Of Badly Injured Now
Given at 26O any Of These
Will Mot Survive

Chicago, Dec. 3l.-Thousands OF the
curious today tried vainly to reach
the scene of the fire. The police. how
ever, permitted no lettering on either
side of the street nearby. The exterior
OF the building was the same as be-
fcre the fire. The giant stone head
of an Iroquoisian over the grand en-
trance. fitting symbol of the cruelty
from a front unstained by smoke or
water.
Though serene without. the interior
of the theater marked It true whited
sepulchre. Upon the marble stair
cases at the left and right within were
the mess and confusion OF the grim
march of the bearers OF the dead.
Among the thousands OF bits OF br.l
liantly colored glass shattered in the
fight against the flames lay many
scorched bits of clothing and occas
ional fragments OF charred bodies
From the upper galleries the view to-
day seemed a reminder of a burned
out volcanic crater.
In a building near the theater was
guarded a huge pile of garments and
furs gathered up In the theater after
the fire.
AS soon as possible today an ad-
ditional detail of police went througl
the burned building from top to bot
tenn. There were fears that in tn
basement. beneath ten feet OF muddy
water would be found more victim
OF the smoke and flames.
Big fire engines that before had de
luged the place were today being utii
tied to draw forth dozens of streams
OF thick murky water from the base
ment OF the place.
One of the most peculiar of the
identfications today was that of o
headless body OF Boyer Alexander.
years old. The lads father DR.. w.
ID. Alexander. AIS Washington Boule-
ward. had sleeplessly sought his son al.
night long and today, In examining
the headless corpse OF a child, the
physician identified his own boy BY
a watch, birthday present from the
father found upon the remains.
A pitiful scene attended the iden
tification of Margery Edwards. four
teen years old. of Clinton. Iowa. He
father. w. NJ. Edwards. who has been
In Chicago on a visit identified the
daughters terribly burned body from
a sample of cloth In her skirt which
he carried in his pocket.
Chief of Police ONeill today super
vised the work of helping friends and
relatives recover their dead. Hundreds
of persons, grief and anxiety written
In their faces, thronged about Chief
O'Neilrs office seeking information
The pressure grew so strong that
Secretary Markham. mounting chair
read off descriptions to a multitude
of people, who listened with straning
ears. Frequently persons in the crowd
recognized the descriptions read by the
secretary and started In horror for the
particular morgue named as the words
fell from the secretary's lips
At the morgue the inadequacy of the
means Of inspecting the bed es was
evident. Only few persons at a TIM
were allowed to pass before the bodies
and places In the line OF admission
were as eagerly sought and Tough,
for az the means of escape were when
the theater was burning.
A party consisting of Mrs. Lucy
Garn, her two children. Frank, ten
years old. and Wilt, six years old,
Harriet Wolfe. ten years old. daughte
of Ludwick Wolfe, a millionaire busl-
ness man. and Miss Burke a dress
maker. is missing
Mrs. Wolfe's entire family searched