The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-04
DAY OF MANY BURIALS
Every Hearse in Use, Cemetery
Forces Overworked, Funerals
Delayed by Storm.

anu DdElldN avenue III Tie SuDuIU " OOulll
Chicago, and the building was filled with
the friends and relatives of the girl.
A fire broke out three doors from the
church ae-Ie first intimatiOn of the fact
was conveyed to the people in the church by
a cry of fire in the street. Chicago gath
erings are somewhat nervous at this time on
the subject of fire and it needed but the
one shout to bring all the people to their feet
and many of them started for the door.
Policemen OKeefe and Peterson, who were
stationed in the church, called out to the
people to resume their seats. Their adj
vice was not needed, however; the pail
bearers went 70 the side of the casAet and
stood in readiness to remove it and the
family of the dead girl prepared to leave.
Suddenly a cloud of smoke came in
through the open door, and the sight and
smell maddened the people in an instant.
The two officers barely had time to swing
the doors open when the rust came. This
was all that saved a severe crush and prob
able loss of life as the crowd plunged
through the doorways.
When the street was reached and it was
seen that there was no cause for alarm the
greater part of the people returned TO the
church. and the services were finished, al
though they were cut shorter than it was
at first intended they should be. Nobody
was injured in the panic.
DELAYED BY STORM.
For the first time in the history of the
city all of the people who desired TO
bury their dead were unable to do
so. The unprecedented demand for
hearses and carriages would have been
enough in ,tself to tax to the very utmost
the resources of the undertakers. but the
heavy snow that has fallen during the
last two days has increased their difficulties
enormously. All of the cemeteries in Chi
cago are miles from the business center
and residence districts, and with good
weather, and the streets in pasSable condl-
ton, ii is a matter of several hours TO
reach one of them. To-day when every
hearSe was in urgent demand, IL required
about twice as long to reach a cemetery as
under normal conditions. Arrangements
were made by the undeTtakers TO have as
many funerals as possible held in the early
part of the day, in order to allow, If pos
sible, the use of the hearse for a second
funeral in the afternoon. In a number
of cases this was done, but there were in
stances where the families who were to wait
for the return of the hearse, were disap-
pointed, and were compelled to defer the
burial of their loved ones until tomorrow.
1t is not expected that there Will be any
further trouble in this direction after to-
day, and by tomorrow the streets to the
cemeteries will be in such a condition as to
Y IAll VI lHt passage VI oAS III AAAAe~
the ordinary time.
The cemeteries were compelled to keep
men at work all through the night digging
graves, and in some of the large cemeteries
they barely managed to make them with
sufficient speed. At one time this afternoon
fourteen burials were in progress in Rose
hill Cemetery, and all of them were the
of victims of the fire of Wednes-
day afternoon.
In the rooms of one undertaken on the
south side of the city a fraternal organiza-
fiOn held services OVnr 1VR members OF
their order at the same time, and all OF
them were buried side by side in Waldheim
Cemetery. The funeral services over the
remains of Ella and Edyth Freckelton. sis
ters, were held in Boulevard Hail., Fifty
fifth and Halsted streets, fully two thou
sand persons being in attendance, and five
wind until the funeral had departed for
lakewood Cemetery.
In the home of the millionaire manufac-
turer. Ludwig Wolff, at 1929 Washington
boulevard, was held the quadruple funeral
Of his daughter, Mrs. William II. earn, and
her three children. A crowd of more than
1000 people surrounded the house, and the
police were compelled to open a passageway
for the pallbearers when they left the house
with the caskets. The funeral was one of
the largest ever seen on the West Side of
the city. over 100 carriages, all private equi-
pages, being i'm the procession, which went
to Graceland Cemetery.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN.
A funeral conducted in a humber manner
was held a few squares from the Wolff
residence at the same time as that Of Mrs.
earn and her three children, all of whom
died in the Inflated second balcony last
Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Hoist was a
sister of ex-Chief of Police Badenoch, and
1t was he who identified the bodies OF the
mother and her three children. Fully as
many people around the small frame church
in which this funeral was held as gathered
outside the pretentious Wolff mansion, and
here, as In front of Mr.. VOLTS residence,
the police were compelled TO open a pas
sageway for the caskets as they were borne
10 the hearses.
These are but instances of what hap
pened throughout the length and breadth Of
Chicago to-day. Multiply the funerals men
toned by twenty, and a better idea can be
had Of this first Sunday in the new year.
The list of dead was increased 10 SIS to-day
by the death of Leroy Rainbold, a boy of
four years, who was severely burned and
died at St. Luke's Hospital. OF the ten
bodies at the county morgue four were
identified to-day. They were:
FAIR. MRS. MARY A.
LUDWIG, SADIE.
LEMENAGER, DOROTHY, thirteen
years.
REYNOLDS, EMMA, seven years.
The injured now number 103, of whom
there is any record, although the number of
those who were hurt slightly would swell
this number greatly. Numbers of people
went 10 lutI nOllltS alAtI the IRE WITHOUT
reporting themselves 10 the police as in
jured.
Outside of the numerous funerals that
were held I'm the city to-day, il was the
first day Of rest the city has known since
last Wednesday afternoon. Less than
twenty persons called at the office of the
chief OF police for permits 10 visit morgues,
and few people were at the hospitals.
STILL SEEKING SCHMIDT.
John Schmidt. the stage hand who is said
10 have left open the reflector which pre-
vented the asbestos curtain from descend
ing. is still sought by the police. He is be-
lieved 10 be in hiding in the city. but the
chief of police received an intimation from
his friends that Schmidt will be ready when
he is wanted as a witness at the coroner's
inquest next Thursday.
There were no more arrests OF members
of the "Bluebeard' company to-day and no
more are expected unless there should be
unexpected developments. Assistant Chief
OF Police Schuettler declared to-day that
no further obstacle would be placed i'm the
way of members OF the company who de-
sired 10 leave the city.
Il have been assured by Klaw & Erlang-
er." he said. that any member OF the COM