The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-01-07
DAYS OF SORROW.
Chicago Recovering Slowly From
Shock of Great Fire
ARE FUNERALS ON EVERY HAND.
The List Of Dead Still Growing
Sunday Was Day Of Universal
Mourning.

Mourning
Chicago Special-The total numbel
Of dead in the theatre fire has been def
initely established 1T 587, OF which bu
IL remain unidentified
Bells toiling at noon suspended busi
ness activity, and long lines Of funeral:
making their way TO the outlying dis
tricts where the cemeteries are stu
ated-these circumstances evidenced
Chicago's outward grief for the vic
tins of the Iroquois Theatre disaster
Saturday. Priests and ministers OF the
different churches were kept busy, as
they will be for some days.
The unidentified dead will be kept
as long as possible at the morgues. II
no one comes to lay claim to the bodies
they will be buried at the cities ex-
| pense. By common consent Of the
clergy, Lead. Kindly Light" the great
hymn written by Cardinal John New
man, is being sung at all the funerals
When it was IL o'clock the chimes
of the North Side Church tolled a dirge
and the northeast wind waited it over
the city. Before the first notes had
died away, another chime, farther
south, sounded a mnurnful intonation.
Then a hundred bells broke forth in a
mighty diapason, whose iron means
seemed to reach the gray clouds and
| echoed back again in solemn accord.
A snow storm which prevailed added
to the solemnity. An intense quiet
ness in the atmosphere itself, the alb
sence of all holiday appearances and
the numerous funeral oorteges. as they
slowly moved through the snow storm,
while the church bells were tolling,
combined to make the occasion one as
| peculiarly cheerless as it was solemn
| nG-impressive.
The city hall, except the absolutely
necessary departments, was closed to-
| day. The board of tarde closed an
hour earlier than usual, and a number
of mercantile and manufacturing estab-
lsihments also closed earlier. The big
State street department stores closed
| their doors at noon. The purpose Of
! the proprietors had been to afford ia
cilities for the bereaved thousands to
secure mourning goods by keeping the
stores open.
Tbi RI aoohore t. 49, -,,bl;.
| schools are known to have lost their
lives in the fire, and the schools were
| ordered closed Monday in their men,
| ory.
Chicago, Spectal.-Sunday was day
of funerals in Chicago and for the first
thine in the history OF the city all of
the people who desired to bury their
dead were unable to do so. The un-
precedented demand for hearses and
carriages would have been enough in
itself to task to the utmost the re-
sources of the uodertakers, but the
heavy snow that has fallen during the
last two days has increased their diff
ficultfes enormously. All OF the ceme-
teries in Chicago are miles from the
business centre. Arrangements were
made by the undertakers to have as
many funerals as possible held in the
early part of the day in order to allow,
il possible, the use of the hearSe for
second funeral in the afternoon. In a
number of cases this was done, but
there were instances where the fami-
lies who were to wait for the return Of
the hearse were disappointed and were
compelled to defer the burial on their
dead until tomorrow.
The cemeteries we're con. PEELED to
keep men at work all through the
night digging graves, and in some OF
the larger cemeteries they barely man
aged to make them at sufficient speed.
At one time this afternoon, Ia burials
were in progress in Rose Hill Gene
terry and all of them we're the inter-
ments of victims of the fire.
In the rooms of one undertaken on
the south side of the city a fraternal
organization held services over five
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, sisters.
were held in Boulevard Hall at Fifty
fifth and Halstead streets, fully zoo
persons being in attendance and 5oO
more stood outside in the wind until
the funeral had departed for Oakwood
Cemetery.
In the home of the millionaire manu-
facturer, Ludwig Wolff. on Washing
ton boulevard, was held the quadruple
funeral OF his daughter. Mrs VIM. ii.
earn. and her three children. A crowd
of more than 1000 people surrounded
the house and the police were com
pelled to open passageway Tot inc
pall-bearers.
A funeral conducted in a humber
manner was held q few squares from
the wolff residence. It was that OF
Mrs. Mary w. Holt and her three chill
dren. all OF whom died in the ill-fated
second balcony. Fully as many people
were around the small frame church
in which this funeral was held as were
gathered outside the pretentious Woln
mansion, and here. as in front OF MI.
wolffs residence. the police were COM
pelled to open a passage way for tLs
caskets as they were borne TO the
hearses.
LIST OF DEAD INCREASED TO 5Ss:
The list OF dead was increased to ass
by the death of Leroy Rainboid, boy
OF four years, who was severely burned
OF the 10 bodies at the county morgue'
four were identified today. They were
Mrs. Mary A Fair. Sadie Ludw1g'
Dorthy Lemenager. 13 years; Emma
Reynolds, z years.
The injured now number 1O3, OF
which there is any record. although the
,.;,r,her of those who were hurt slight
" would swell this number greatly.