Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-02
.RELATIVESAREDEAD
MRS. M. W. SCOTLAND j. X. HART
OF THIS CITY, LOSE BY CHI
cAeo FIRE.

From Fridays Daily.
Although there were no Ottumwans
injured in the disastrous destruction
OF the Iroquois theater in Chicago
wednesday afternoon, there were sew
eral victims of the terrible holocaust
who We're relatives of residents of this
cit. Mrs. NJ. W.sScott III North COL
lege street, was perhaps the most un-
fortunate. Her two nieces, Mrs. N. M.
Stark. and Mrs. Il. ]. Tuttle of Des
MoineS daughter of the late John Civ
en-, many years superintendent of the
Rock Island, were burned to death.
Helen, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Wunderlich of Chica-
go, relatives of Mrs. w. H. White, 903
North Court street, met her death in
the flames. and Mrs. Wunderlich and
ner 31atifer are, from all reports, among
the missing. Harry Danners and lit
tie daughter, of Burlington, also rela-
tives Of Mrs. White are among the
missing. j. K. Hart, an instructor in
the high school this morning, received
a message saying that his sister-in-
law, Mrs. E. c. Hart, of Rock Island,
was numbered among the dead =, n
Mrs. Mary e. Harper, zoos Moth
Court street, has received word from
Chicago that her cousin, Mrs. John
Holmes, was in the Iroquois theater
fire and was now in st. Luke's hospi-
tai. Mrs. Holmes was accompanied
to the theatre by her little I2-year-
old niece, Miss Susie Bhean, of West
vile, Ind, who is also in the hospital
at Chicago.
Mrs. scott's Relatives.
In speaking about the death of Mrs.
Stark and Mrs. Tuttle, the two nieces
Of Mrs. Scott of this city. the Des
Moines Capital has the following to
say:
Mrs. Tuttle and Mrs. Stark wsre
sisters, the daughters of Mrs. Margar-
ct Given. 906 Eighth street. In COM
pany with their husbands they started
to Des Moines last Monday. Mr.. Stark
and Mr.. Tuttle We're occupied with
business matters and the women in
tended to do some purchasing and vis-
it the leading playhouses during the
trip.
AS soon as the news of the disaster
came to the ears of Messrs. Stark and
Tuttle they rushed to the theatre and
began the effort to locate their wives.
AS the latter had occupied seats on
the first floor they felt exceedingly
hopeful that they had escaped. AS
their search heightened and they were
still unable to obtain any trace of
them, they became more and more
alarmed. They visited every morgue
and every hospital without finding the
bodies among the dead or injured. AS
the hours grew and still no word had
been sent by them to the hotel the be-
reaved husbands telephoned the fam
lily in Des Moines and at the same time
expressed some hope that their search
would yet be rewarded. They prom
ised to telegraph the first definite in
formation obtainable. All through the
long hours of the night the search con-
tinued and it did not end until well
toward noon yesterday when the char
red bodies We're found among a great
pile of unidentified and almost un-
identifiable corpses." It
Funeral Tomorrow.
Mrs. Scott left last evening on the
Rock Island for Des Moines, to attend
the funeral of her deceased relatives.
which will occur tomorrow afternoo /.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart will leave tomorrow
for Rock Island to attend the funeral
Of Mrs. Hart. Mrs. White is now in
burlington and it can not be learned
whether or not she will go to Chi
cago.
Escape the Fire.
The Muscatine Journal states that
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter L. Lane, for
merly of this city. were in Chicago
Wednesday and had tickets to the
matinee at the Iroquois theatre, but
We're prevented from going because of
business engagement of the for
mer.
The Journal also says that Mr.. and
Mrs. Garry Schmidt, who formerly re-
sided here, had made an engagement
to attend the matinee with Chicago
friends, but cancelled it to return, to
Muscatine to attend New Years
social function.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. C. Hall Escape Fire.
Mrs. Henry c. Hall of Chicago, for
merly Miss Fannie Field. of this city.
started with her husband to see the
production of "Bluebeard, Jr.,' but on
the way to the theatre they decided to
see The Pit" 1t was probably due
to this change of plans that Mr.. and
Mrs. Hall We're not included in the
list of victims. They would doubtless
have been in the balcony as they had
not procured tickets and there were
few downstairs seats left