The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-01-02
Coroner Is Diligently Seeking
It's CduSe-Seyerdl Arrests
Have Been Made
ENT.RE CITY IN MOURNING
Dead Are Being Identified Who're
Identification ! 5 Possible, and
Removed to Their Homes


Chicago, Jan. LIN Its last edition
the Daily News puts the total casual
ties at 1000, including dead. iajured
and missing.
The coroner has ordered the arrest
of several members of the "Mr. Blue
beard" company, and also OF the fol-
lowing, on the charge of manslaughter.
William Carleton, stage manager.
Edward Cummings. assistant stage
manager.
r. NJ. Cummings, stage hand.
+. Jandsow. stage carpenter.
j. j. Mazzoni. stage carpenter.
Edward Engle. stage hand.
Thomas Mcqueen, stage hand.
The other four against whom n
charges are made as yet, but who are
held as witnesses are William G. SLACK
Samuel Bell, Victor Bozart and Ev~n
Winnes.
Miss Anna Brandt and Miss Daisy
Beaule. two members of the chorus ar
rested. were later released.
None OF the owners or managers OF
the Iroauois theater or OF the MI
Bluebeard" company was placed un1e.
arrest, although the members of ne
troupe assert that they were ordered
20 =. epare 10 leave
for New York, and in the meantime
to say nothing.
A prominent trade joul nal OF Chica-
go early last summer criticised the con
struction of the Iroquois theater he.
cause the structure lacked a shaft OF
fiue at the back of the stage for car
rying the flames and smoke upwaid
and away from the auditorium in tbs
event of fire.
Such shafts were built in Madison
square idTuSn anu ttie heSiSfOANN>'
opera house in New York and sim
liar provision is made for carrying OF
the smoke at the Chicago Auditorium
TIE method of fireproofling the bal
cony and gallery was also declared t.
be defective by the same ournal, be
cause metal lathing was used in Hha
is known as exposed construction
where heat would easily affect II. IL
modern fireproof buildings this lath
ing is buried in concrete.
1t was the buckling out of this meta
lathing and iron rods. giving the I'M
pr ession that the galleries themselves
were falling, that is believed by SOM
contractors to have been partly re
sronsible for the panic. There wa
no criticism of the strength of the gal
lery and balcony arches. which wef'
built in the usual manner.
Among many of the theatrical mel
employed in the other Chicago thea
ters the responsibility for the fire wal
ascribed today to the careless PLACING
of electric arc light apparatus too Gloss
to one of the hanging borders of th'
scenery. The electrician of leading
Chicago theater expressed great sur
prise on hearing that this was con
sidered a possible caue of the fire.
There never would have been anl
fire." he said, III proper care hat
bees * srcised In handling the lights
The electric plant of the theater wal
installed, as / know. from persona
observation, in accordance with ever,
modern requirement for safety. Th'
plant is not to blame. If the facts
have given are correct. the whole
blame rests on the person who placed
or was operating light so close t
the curtain"
Failure of the expected fire protec
tion is attributed by Insurance men t
trouble with the asbestos curtain. Th
stage always is recognized as the dan
ger point in a theater. and the desir
Is to have 1t cut off from the auditor
jnm AZ thoroughly AZ possible. The In