The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-01-02
Funeral After Funeral Passes
Through Silent Streets.
Period of Mourning Is
Strictly Observed.
THEATER PROPRIETORS
PLACED UNDER ARREST
Warrant Sworn Out by Man
Who Had Lost Wife and
Three Children in the
Catastrophe.

CHICAGO, Jan. Beneath gloomy
skies. IN oppressive silence and an at
mosphere which seems ominously laden
with death. Chicago is today a veritabie
city of mourning.
Whole streets. which are usually ~esO-
nant with the clang Of commercialism,
whose pavements are wont to be throng-
ed at this season with merrymakers,
whose sky-towering buildings are accus-
TONED to the cheer Of throbbing activ-
ity. are so silent that the rattle OF fun
eral rappings bears with it sharp, sud
den shock.
Funeral After Funeral
Funeral after funeral, until the grim
buildings themselves seems forming an
alley-lilke guardway TO a vast gate Of
death; pavements either deserted or
habited only by those who stand in
expression of hopeless. oppressive grief
have changed the scene to one of uni
Nersal woe. No sound of ringing sleigh
bell. no shouts of mirth, no glad ex-
change OF holiday greetings,-silence,
awful in desolation, or broken by means
of despair.
Yesterdays papers contained pages
of death lists, columns of burial notices
Today's tell yet Of more Yesterday the
faces OF pedestrians bore the dazed look
OF unrealization. Today, with compre-
hension vivifed by a funeral panorama
without. precedent. those same faces are
SCARED and marked with grief
Obedient to Mayor Harrison's procla-
nation that this shall be a day of
mourning. even those business houses
which bear no crepe telling of death
brought home. have closed their doors
Even that maelstrOm Of the market, the
than usual. Yet there are a few places
OF monotonous activity-the morgues.
Proprietors Under Arrest.
VIII J. Davis and Harry ]. Powers.
proprietors and managers of the Iro-
quois Theater, and George williams,
city building inspector, were placed un-
der arrest on the criminal charge of
manslaughter at midnight Warrants
for the three men, who have hitherto
been unmolested by the police and coro-
ner, were issued last night by Justice
George w. Underwood at his residence
Arthur r. Hull who lost a wife and
three children. with their maid y the
holocaust, swore to the complaint on
which the warrants were issued at the
Justices house. They took every one
/ had" said Mr.. Hull, brokenly There
is nothing more for me to work FOR.
My wife and my children, all I've had
to live for, are gone All that remains
is for me to try to make some one pay
for this carelessness.
"A few carpenters and stage hands
have been arrested. Men who sang in
the chorus are in jail. Such an investi-
cation is a cruel mockery. The men
who are responsible are allowed to walk
the streets untouched. while a few la
borers are punished"
Tomorrow. Mr. Hull will leave Chica-
go with the four bodies for his wife's
girlhood home in Troy, n. Y. He viii
return to Chicago to carry on the prose
cution to the bitter end.
Service on the three men was made
by telephone. The prisoners appeared
at Il o'clock this morning and give
bonds. They were for $4,000 each.
Period of Mourning.
Mayor Harrison proclaimed the moor
hour today as the period of unite(
mourning for the victims OF the horror
He asked that every church bell in Chi
cago be tolled for five minutes at Il
O'Clock. and that every person I'm tho
city stand uncovered during that period
1T is the voice of Rachel, weeping for
her children. and will not be confortec
because they are not."-tnis Is the tex
OF the ministers who today are per.
forming the last rites for hundreds OF
the dead. In every direction. along az.
most every street, and out toward th<
cemeteries. solemn somber cortege.
moved through the snow-covered wind.
swept streets. There were not hearse,
enough to carry all and the plain blacl
wagons pressed into service added pitt.
fulness to the scenes