The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-01-07

fed among the dead, and there We're
still fifty or tifty-Gve bodies which had
not been recognized.
Chicago, Jan. 1.--Tor the first time
since Chicago possessed bells to peal,
whistles to Shrek and horns to blow,
he Cd year was allowed to silently
take its place in history and the new
year permitted to come with no evil
dence OF joy at it's birth.
In an official proclamation issued yes
terday afternoon by Mayor Carter
Harrison he made the suggestion that
the usual New Years eve celebration
be for his time omitted. The idea
found a ready response In the hearts
of he people and the mayors words
In fact only gave utterance to the I'M
expressed thoughts that had filed them
all.
The appalling calamity in the Iro-
quois theater has cast Chicago into the
deepest grief n gloom, and for the
time being at least seems to have
chilled and deadened all the ordinary
ambitions OF life. Business yesterday
was performed With the sole view to
actual necessity, and even that much
was carried out in a perfunctory man
neT.
Ordinarily on New Years eve the.
streets of the city are filled with mer-
rymahers. but tonight the only throngs
to be found We're those around the
m~orgues; ordinarily numbers of fash
enable restaurants in the heart of the.
city are filed with l!ght-hearted rev.
elers who toast the year that passes
And hs1l the year that comes. These
places sSre comparatively deserted,
and sohla of them closed entirely with
doors locked and curtains drawn. Us
uahy amcng these gay people are found
many msFlbers of the theatrical pro-
~fession. Tonight not a single one of
them was in evidence.
Whole City Mourns.
Tor the second time In her life the
city of Chicago has been stricken TO
the heart. Not only have many OF her
sons and daughters met death in q va
riety of horrible and %torturing forms,
but the blow has fallen almost as heav-
lily upon the strangers within her gates.
There is hardly a village or town with
In a radius OF Zoe miles of Chicago
whose people are not directly or indi-
rectly interested in the piles of dead or
IN the injured which fill the hospitals,
or in the fate OF those who seem to
have passed from human knowledge in
the fact it is believed they are in the ILL
fated structure n of whom no word
has since been heard.
The list CT dead continuea as it was
given last night, in the neighborhood
of $50. 1t is generally accepted at this
time that the most accurate estimate is
b64. This number will be increased
somewhat, as there are people in the
hospitals who cannot survive for any
length OF time. 1t is believed. however,
that the total number Of dead will not
In any event exceed SIS. Including the
missing, it is estimated that the total
number of casualties is at the present
time approximately 1000. There are
among the missing the names Of many
who are at their homes and of some
who Were not at the heater at all. In
the first excitement following the ca
lamity these people We're reported by
their relatives as among the missing,
and numbers of them nave since re-
turned TO their homes and no report
of this fact has been made to police
headquarters. Their names, however.
Still! swell the list of the missing. When
the names of the dead who are still to
be identified have been subtraeted from
the list of the missing 1T is probable
that the extent of the catastrophe will
be fully revealed.
Building overtaxed.
There have been numerous reports,
unauthenticated, however, that the
eisles and passageways II: the rear Of
the seats were blocked. by q, crowd Of
people who occupied the standing
room. The actual seating capacity Of
the theater is: First floor, 700; first ball
cony, 45o; second balcony, 465; total,
1,615.
Will J.. Davis, one Of the propr,etors
of the theater, was questioned last
night as to the number of tickets sold,
and asked If 1t was true tina 500 people
were standing in the aisles ana In rows
back Of the seats on each floor. Mr..
Davis was plainly %unstrung, and
begged to be excused from talking OF
the matter, which, he said, was too
monstrous to dispose Of in a few or
binary words"
Mr.. Davis said he had not seen Mr..
Newman, who alone OF the theater en-
ployes knew the number of persons adj
mitted. ri do not credit the state
ment," said MI, Davis, t'ascribed to one
of the ushers that as many as 500 peo-
pie were standing in the rear of the
Seats"
On wednesday afternoon after the
fire, however, several of tine ushers de-
clared that at least 1000 people were in.
the theater.
Beginning Of the Fire.
The fire broke out during the see
ottd act OF Mr.. Bluebeard," which Yves
the first drarsatlo production produced
in the theater after Its opening. The
members of the theatrical
Whieh was hasrge. escaped, nearly all Of
them, however, after being compelled
TO fee inen the snowy streets with no
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