Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-02
In ALI the City's History it Never
Had so Dark and Gloomy
A New Year.
STORY OF TW0LlTTLE CHILDREN
Mourned as Dead, 0uc Identified as
Such, They Finally Came
Home in Safety.

mat when ushered IN the new year. IN
every portion of the city almost 1t
seemed as though there were funerals
going or undertaking wagons arriving
with dead, who were being brought to
their homes for the last time.
While the funeral professions were
moving through the snow-cCvered
streets 60 the various cemeteries, the
throng about the various morgues and
undertaking establishments seemed al
most as large as ever, The scenes here
were the same as those Of Wednesday
and Thursday night. Many men ap-
peared at the door Of Bolstons and
JordNn's morgues this afternoon who
had been for As hours constantly
searching for those they had lost.
WHERE THE DEAD ARE.
The greater number OF dead are In
these two places. and men who had
viewed the ghastly rows Of corpses be-
fore and had gone on an %unavaillng
search to every other morgue and I'M
dortaking room IN the city to which
the dead from the theater had been
taken, came back once more TO Rol-
ston's and Jordan's, almost IN despair,
but hoping against hope that they
might have overlooked their dead In
the great number that had crowded the
tables and floors on Thursday, In SONS
cases they were successful, IN many
others they were not. Practically all
of the bodies which admit of careful
Identification have been carried away,
and of those which remain the MAJOR
ity are in such a condition that only
the most minute and careful inspection
will be able to reveal their Identity 10
those who know them best.
STORY OF TWO CHILDREN,
one Of the saddest cases was that Of
Herbert and Agnes LANCE Of 1862 Bar
ry avenue. Both children had attend
ed the performance and after many
hours Of t~Ireless searching the broken
hearted father finally found the daugh-
ter, Agnes, IN an undertaking estab-
lishment. Mr. Lange, almost exhaust
ed through his continuous trips from
morgue to morgue and from hospital
to hospital, from police stations TO the
%c0roner's office, and the back through
the wearlsome round again and again,
came this afternoon IN utter despair Ia
the office OF Chief Of Police O'Neill and
begged two detectives to assist him,
He also pleaded with newspaper men.
and his voice choked and failed az he
referred to his wife, who lay utterly
Frustrated at their home.
Mr.. Lange said these were his only
children, and the detectives and news
paper men promised him every assist
ance, though themselves almost worr
out by long hours OF work in behalf OF
other people similar 10 that which Mr.
LANCE requested their aid. Finally thu
body of the girl VAS found. and the
| brokenhearted father smiled through
his tears as he gathered up the little
form and carried II to his carriage,
Il have II OF them at least he said
land this will be a great comfort &c
her mother The absolute failure OF
Mr.. LANCE to identify any Of the bodie:
as that Of his sol aroused some hops
that the boy may still be alive and
cared for in the hospital.
THEY CAME HOME.
Mr.. Lange's sorrow was turned e
Toy when he reached his home at l2Sl
Forty-ffth street tonight. AS he drove
up TO the door with the body which he
had brought from the morgue as thai
Of his daughter, he was greeted by hi:
wife, who told him that their two chill
dren had returned home this evening
In safety. They had become da2ed ap'
parently and had been wandering
around the city without knowing wher,
they were, Mr., LANCE at once re
| turned TO the morgue with the body
OF the little girl which he thought &c
be that of his own child,
There was so little by which | could
| recognize the body he said, that
was confident that ] never would b.
| able to satisfy my own mind absolute
~ that It was my daughter, but a.
| the same time there were some strong
points OF resemblance and | concluded
that II must be She
A CLERGYMAN'S EXPERIENCE,
The funeral Of the two Regensbere
| children was held this afternoon nj the
| home Of their parents, $40 Michigan
| avenue, in the heart Of the aristocratiC
section Of the south side. Because u
the many calls upon his time, DR.. Emf
| G.. Hirsch, who conducted the services
announced that he would be able C
| deliver only a short address. In f0ul
| other homes OF the members OF his con.
gregation lay the bodies OF children
waiting for him to oficiate at theil
funerals.
From the Regeusberg home Dr.
Hirsch went 20 that OF Or. Joseph 2eis.
Ter, 1856 Lake Park avenue, TO attend
! the funeral uf another young victim
Walter b. Xeisler, who was considered
one OF the brightest students In the
| University OF Chicago.
The experience of this one clergyman
IN his rounds from home to home Is but
| an instance Of what dozens OF Other
ministers Of the gospel were called
upon 10 perform during the day,
SCARCITY OF CARRIAGES.
II was absolutely impossible for IN,
| bereaved relatives 10 secure all I'M
carriages they wished 70 convey theIl
friends and relatives to the cemeteries
In many eases Il was not possible fol
all the members Of the family 10 rid,
In the funeral cortege, because no car,
riages could be procured for them.
The liyerymen were simply over
whelmed by the demands made upo,
them. and earnestly urged that as faI
as possible the relatives should contenr
themselves with q carriage for the pail
bearers, the hearse and one other car,
rlage for the family Where there wer,
more In a family than could convenient
~ ride In the single carriage they wer,
compelled to make their way 10 IN,
cemetery by other methods Of trans
portQtion,
This was the situation In Chicago 10
day, and tomorrow II Will be intensl
fed. The %coroner's Office today issue,
nearly 300 burial certificates for peopl
killed In the FIRE, Some OF these wer,
for people residing In other cities, bu
they were comparatively few.
McMULLEN's STORY.
The police today vigorously pushe,
their inquiry into the causes OF IN
dro, and made several other arrests o
stage hands, among them William Nc
Mullen, the operator for the ligh
which started the fire. lie was locke.
up az the central station, and WilsoI