The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-01-07
STRICKEN Chicago
IS IN MOURNING
The City Shrouded in Gloom Over
the Awful Fire Horror at the
Iroquois Theater.
Funeral COrteges Wind Through the
streets and Bells Toll Out Their
sad Observation-Disclosures Practically
Suspended-MnyOr Orders Closing
of Every Theater in City.


suspended-Mayor Orders Closing
of Every Theatcr in city.
Chicago, Jan. 4.-By an official proc
lamation Of Mayor Harrison Saturday
was set aside as day of mourning.
Business in the downtown district prac-
ticaly was suspended. The large de-
partment stores closed at one O'Clock,
and the stock exchange, board of edu-
cation, the courts and the public offices
in the county building and the city hall
were closed throughout the day.
Held In Heavy Bail.
VIII J. Davis, Henry j. Powers and
Building Commissioner George Will
liams, who were arrested on warrants
charging them with manslaughter in
connection with the Iroquois disaster,
were arraigned before Justice Under
wood, and were released under bonds of
10000 each. The hearing of the accusa-
tons against the three mcn-Davis and
Powers as managers and part owners of
the theater, and Williams as the city Of
fetal whose province it was to prevent
the opening of an unsafe playhouse
will be held January 12 at ten a. m.
Total Number of Victims
Chicago, Jan. 5.-The revised list of
dead from the Iroquois theater fire shows
800 victims, of whom $50 have been iden-
tilted. Four unknown bodies have been
IN ~ ~,
Most of the bodies remaining uniden-
tilted are so badly burned and disfig-
ured as to be unacceptable even to
those who knew them best in life. 1t
is now planned to bury all that are not
identified at last at the public expense
in a common plot of ground to be pur-
chased by the city in one Of the larger
cemeteries and to hold general public
service over the remains.
a city Mourns.
Chicago is in mourning. Slowly, sol
EMMY, a boom Of many bells on Satur-
day sounded the knell of the dead who
persisted in the Iroquois theater fire,
In the hour between noon and one
o'clock the melancholy clangor echoed
through the city From Rogers Park
to Kensington, from the lake shore to
the Austin prairics, the bells called to
each other from spire and church tower,
from befry and minaret, across the
wind-Swept, snow-driven spaces, ming
ling their braZcn voices to toll one
mighty kfell for the passing of nearly
eco souls.
Many Funerals.
In driving snow, which fell all day
long, and in a temperature only few
degrees above zero, more than 200
funerals were held Saturday. Two hun
dred and twenty-siX victims of the awful
catastrophe were buried on Sunday. In
some cases three and four hearses were
needed to carry the dead from some
houses of mourning. In two funeral
professions there were more hearses
than carriages. Two triple funerals oc-
cured around a corner from each other
six hcarses waiting in the snow for
their cargo of corpses within two blocks.
Over 500 Hurled.
In the three days given over to burials.
funeral services have been said over $40
Of the bodies, 2S1 of which have been
placed in Chicago burying grounds and
go shipped to a distance. But 70 iden-
tilted dead and four unidentified remain
to be consigned to their last resting
place All the identified dead will be in
TERED to-day
Thcntcr OvcrcrOwdcd.
At the inquiry before Fire Inspector
FulEcrsOn late yesterday afternoon
Manager Edwin H. Price, of the Iroquois
thcatcr, testified that about ten min
utes before the fire broke out the treas
urer told him that they had sold about
100 more tickets than the seating ca
pacity. Manager Price said the receipts
December 30 We're about $l,700.
All Are Closed.
The mayor refuses to allow lower
floors of theaters to be used and the
managers say they may remain closed
for months. An order sent out by Build
ing Commissioner Williams closed 324