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Evening journal., 1904-11-19

d. w. LYNCH COMPANY. GROCER
les Very best goods at lowest cash
prices. For holidays 3 bottles wine, any
kind, Si.o0 Main store. n. w. Cor. Madi-
son end Fourth SITS.
Evening journal., 1904-11-19

How is This For a Delaware Republi-
can Thanksgiving hymn.
Thank God we've got our work to do;
There's JOY in right endeavor
And so well fight for Senator
Forever and forever.
Evening journal., 1904-11-19
Having Charged some anonymous per-

Having Charged some anonymous per-
son with tampering with certain
ballots, thus causing a tie vote I'm
the Fifth Levy Court district, the
Every Evening win continue 10 re-
vert to Z FOR the next ten years. 1t
has no evidence. It charges nobody
in particular but having once taken
its position, like the school boy, it
viii maintain st by iterating: 'you
did, you did; did, did. did"
Evening journal., 1904-11-19
ENTERTAINMENT.

Miss Fletcher will provide delightful
program each evening. Good music by
High School Orchestra. illustrated songs.
Minstrels. No extra charge. Teachers
Bazaar
Evening journal., 1904-11-19

What's the secret of happy vigor-
GUS health? Simply keeping the bowels.
the stomach, the liver and kidneys
strong and active. Burdock Blood
Bitters does 1t.
Evening journal., 1904-11-19
COMMUNICATIONS

Brief communications on all subjects OF
Interest, temperate IN their nature and
signed by the writer (name not TO be pub
kshed unless desired are always welcome
Evening journal., 1904-11-19
GOSSIP ABOUT
SOME PEOPLE

Henry Hopes, the well-known real es-
tate man can boast of one of the most
striking homes Of the old Colonial effect
in tho city. The dwelling was only recent
ly built and Mr.. Hopes is very proud
of it.
one Of the most successful undertakers
in the city is James Chandler Mr.
Chandler has been Deputy Coroner under
several coroners and the probabilities are
that he will hold that position when
Coroner Purks goes in oflce.
ono Of the best posted men IN Whining
ton on local matters is said to be Colonel
Dan James. Of Eighth and West streets
Colonel James has remarkable memory
and few important matters have hap
pened in Wilmington during the past
twenty-five years but what he remembers
distinctly.
ono Of the most popular clerks in the
offices of the Harlan and Hollingsworth
Company is william II. Reybold He is
liked by everyone from the Office boys to
the president. He has been connected
with the firm for a long time and is thor
oughly acquainted with all its workings.
Thomas n. Stayton is police commits
sioner not only in name, but in fact. On
election day there was trouble in a voting
district over Third street bridge. Putting
on his badge he made a personal visit to
the district and the result was that the
polls were opened and no more trouble oc-
Cured Many other disturbances have
been quelled by Mr.. Stayton about the
city in the absence OF police officers
Although he has been In the city but
a short time the Rev. Frederick A. Ifeisley
rector OF Calvery Church. has made a
host Of friends. His general personality is
doing much 70 increase the attendance at
his church.
Evening journal., 1904-11-19

covernor-eleot Douglas spent in his
campaign $4,000, most OF it in ad-
vertising. An expert advertiser viii
get results every time.
Evening journal., 1904-11-19

Big oyster Lunch at Lynchs Gibson
House tonight.
Evening journal., 1904-11-19

SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10. l9o,.
Evening journal., 1904-11-19

Colonel Lewis B. Morrow having been
appointed Pilot Commissioner we
presume viii change his military title
for one that smacks more Of the sea
Commodore" for instance. "Now,
then, my heartles, belay all"
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son must transform the business of anus
ing the public into something more than
a mere thing of surface glitter and blind
chance. Every theater in this country
must be thoroughly overhauled and made
safe. Then ii must be kept safe.-News.
This is not the time for censure or
elimination. Chicago faces the fact that
in her newest theater. equipped with the
most modern of improvements, hundreds
lost their lives. That is the fact, and
Chicago cringes before it.-lnter Ocean.
The theater was considered to be one
of the safest in the country. 1t is I'M
fortunately true that the most modern
appliances and the most scientific regula-
tons prove practically futile when audi
ences are seized by panic.-Post
What is the good of an asbestos cur
tain to keep fire on the stage out OF the
auditorium if at the critical moment the
curtain cannot be lowered? What is the
good of thirty exits if when a wave Of
living fire forces human being to attempt
them they are not open and none of the
employees of the theater is at hand TO
open them Journal
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CHICAGO'S APPALLING CATASTROPHE.

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I'll cruelty burned
q community that the
side
appalling
In Of
history the More lives
los In
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holiday in the eneprsing city Of the
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struggle
battle
OF Of Its OF
suddenly
in o a
hrep theater be made The builders had the
opportunity
the construction of buildings all
could inspected and approved
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which
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Of woe families Children
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with Chicago this her hour Of
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Comment of Chicago Papers.

The dead cannot be called to life, but
the other theaters of Chicago can be in
spected in the light of the dread illumi-
nation of the Iroquois fire. How many
of them are safe? How many lives
would be lost in them in the event of a
fire or of an alarm of fire which threw
the spectators into panic? There must
be no more reliance on good luck. Chi
cago theaters must be made safe. The
heart breaking calamity veritable
slaughter of the innocents-the first of
the kind in Chicago, must be the last
Tribune.
There will come a time when it will
be necessary to inquire with stern and
relentless indignation how any such dis
aster was possible in these days OF sci
entiic knowledge of FIRE prevention and
in a city supposed to have adequate pro
lection and inspection for its theaterS
For all this there must be the most rigid
and absolute sitting and the fixing with
out hesitation of the full responsibility.
Examiner.
Thousands upon thousands OF lives
must be guarde1 in the future from such
a death as fell upon the victims of the
Iroquois Theater horror. This awful les
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12

for the dead and commenced spoliation
of the lifeless victims Of the holocaust
They did not even hesitate to attack the
living and while in the panic Of the awful
hours following the outbreak of the fire
1t was impossible for the police even
feebly to protect the bodies OF the dead
that lay in piles in drug stores, cigar
shops, hotels, restaurants and even in
the streets, gangs of thieves and pick
pockets from the slums of all Chicago in
the semblance of distracted mourners
searching for their loved ones trooped
upon the melancholy scene. Impudently
these blackguards pushed through the
portals of the temporary morgues and
despite the utmost efforts of the police
they carried off rings, watches, purses
and jewelry.
Finding themselves unable to cope
with the scoundrels the bluecoats sent
out a call for all the police reserves in
the city. and from the outlying police sta
tions detectives and uniformed officers
poured into Randolph street.
The plain clothes men on guard at the
temporary morgues had no time to take
the robbers into custody. 1t would have
been impossible to conduct them through
the dense mass of people that thronged
the streets, and the absence of the Off
GERS would have given large opportunity
for other robbers. In most cases, there
fore, the thieves, when detected. were
kicked or cudgeled out of the morgues.
One fellow was caught taking costly
string of pearls from the neck of a dead
woman, who, he asserted, was his wife.
Others were detected with watches and
rings.
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EVERY THEATER CLOSED.
Thirty-six Chicago PIayhouses shut
by Mayors Sweeping Edict.


by Mayors Sweeping Edict.
Aghast at the possibilities of another
theater horror, the Chicago authorities
on Saturday sought the safety Of a null
titude of play-goers by closing the doors
of every amusement house in Chicago
Not one of the thirty-six theaters and
concert halls of the city was open for
business that night
Despite the terrible warning offered
by the Iroquois disaster, perhaps 10000
pleasure seekers were turned away from
the theater entrances Saturday evening.
the edict for public safety including
buildings like the Auditorium in which
there aPe a few violations of the code.
as we'll as the fimsily constructed thea
tiers in which the infraetions are so gross
as to make the houses fire traps of the
most treaeherous kind
The action which was taken in the
name of the public veal by Mayor Har-
rison, means a suspension of perform
ances for weeks in some OF the theaters,
months in others whore the structures
will have to be remodeled, while in 9TH
ers nothing will suffice but a tearing
down and a rebuilding.
The lroquois Theater was the most
modern in Chicago. yet it was turned
into fiery furnace through which nearly
COO souls passed to eternity. In the re-
naming houses the conditions that made
the Iroquois a firetrap are intensified to
the maximum. with the addition of men
acing flaws in construction. seating and
exits.
Eighteen houses were closed Friday
night because they were not equipped
with asbestos curtains. In the remain
ing eighteen that were darkened Satur-
day night the fireproof curtain was pres
ent, but other conditions made the play
houses suggestive of finder piles In
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From Far and Near.

The scenery OF Hanlon's "Srperba"
was burned in car at North Adams.
Mass
Victor Herbert announces that he will
organize a New York orchestra under
his own name.
Fernando Fleury. formerly noted
vaudeville singer. died in New York.
aged 10 years.
Only twenty-five persons attended the
funeral OF John Kernel. popular come
dian. in New York.
Eight men gere seriously burned in
an explosion in the Nottingham coal
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The body Of Sam Fong, rich Chinese
merchant, was found murdered at Dem
ing, " NJ, supposedly killed By envious
countrymen.
Col Clarence A. Sinclair has rendered
his resignation as commanding officer OF
the First regiment, Louisiana National
Guard, because Of factional dI9svencsA.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12

from the lake shore to the Austin prai-
ries, the bells called to each other from
spire and church tower, from belfry and
minaret. across the windswept, snow
driven spaces, mingling their brazen
voices to toll one mighty knell for the
passing of nearly 800 souls.
In a driving snow, which fell all day
long, and in a temperature only a few
degrees above zero, nearly 200 funerals
were held. Through the night before.
ghostly lights by the score had burned in
the darkness above the snowy desolation
of the citys cemeteries. They We're the
lanterns Of grave diggers working over
time upon the graves. All night they
toiled in relays and all Saturday and
all Saturday night and they continued
their labors Sunday and Sunday night
There were many combined funerals
of relatives who died in the fire. Sew
eral whole families were laid away to
rest together. In consequence many fu-
neral professions contained two and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12
ARRESTS ARE MADE.
Managers ard Employees of the lii
Fated Iroquois Theater Held.

Managers ard Em ploYes or the III-
Fated Iroquois Theater Held.
AS Chicago began to recover from the
shock and stunning grief Of the Iroquois
Theater calamity, demands became loud
from both people and press for the ex-
emplary punishment Of all the men who
would seem In any way responsible for
the death OF nearly coo human beings
Within forty-eight hours the silence Of
grief began to be broken by the hoarse
mutterings of rage against the apparent
crime and the possible criminals.
Late Friday night Will j. Davis and
Harry ]. Powers, proprietors and man
ayers OF the IroQuois Theater. and
George Williams, city building inspsc-
tor were placed under arrest on the
criminal charge OF granddaughter. Arthur
Il. Hull, who lost a wife and three chill
dren, with their maid. In the holocaust.
swore to the complaint on which the war
rants We're issued
Ten OF the employees OF the theater
are also in Jail, and many of the chorus
girls of the "Mr. Blue Beard" company.
who were on the stage when the fatal
fire started are under restraint, being
held as witnesses.
According to the Tribune an made
qrately protected spot light" machine,
close 70 which hung the frayed edge Of
the arch draperies. made the combination
that caused the Ere. William McMullen,
the man who operated the spot light"
is under arrest with a charge OF man
slaughter against him.
Ia a signed statement regarding TIE
lights in the Iroquois Theater at the time
Of the disaster w. f. MAGELLAN, manager
Of the Chicago Calcium Light Company.
declared that there never was calcium
light in the Iroquois except the ones sent
over by the company TO assist the police
In caring for the dead and wounded la
the building
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rings were even torn from many of the
women. In the blackness Of the theater
they could work unobserved. but il was
not long before the police had discov-
cred their presence and made war on
them
According 10 nearly all accounts, there
was no real explosion. the sound OF ex-
plosiou being that of the fuse of the
.'ssot" light, the light which is turned on
pivot to follow and illuminate the
progress OF the star across the stage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12
CITY B0WEDIN GRIEF
CHICAGO MOuRNS VICTIMS OF
THEATER HORROR.
Continuous Procession of Funerals In
City's streets-BeIIs Toll KneII of
the Dead-Dig Graves at Night-An
Theaters Closed indefinitely.

Chicago is 4 city of mourning. For
three days a continuous procession of
hearses bore the mangled bodies of the
theater horror victims to their snowy
graves. More funerals were held in Chi
cago Sunday than ever before in q single
day in an American city. According TO
the burial permits of the health depart
ment, 256 bodies were buried that day in
local cemeteries or shipped out of town.
OF these 226 were bodies Of those who
had lost their lives in the Iroquois Thea
ter FIRE. Funerals of fire .ictims began
Friday, when eighty-nine were buried.
One hundred and ninety-seven were in
tered Saturday. In the three days Civ
en- over to burials, funeral services were
said over 512 of the bodies. 2S3 of which
have been placed in Chicago burying
grounds and 800 shipped to distance.
But eighty identified dead and six un-
identified remained on Monday to be
consigned TO their last resting places All
the identified dead were inferred by
Tuesday.
Funerals began as early as 80 o'clock
Saturday morning. All day long, with
crisp sound of wheels crunching on the
5AOWy lHeg iiueu lue streets leaulnk 10
cemeteries in an almost unbroken pro-
cession. Many bodies were not lowered
into their graves until after SHUTDOWN
Fifty bodies were inferred in Graceland,
forty in Calvary, thirty in Forest Home.
At one time in the afternoon thirty bod
les were being lowered in the graves at
one time in Graceland in plain view
from the roadway. Sunlight from cloud
less heavens sparkled over the snowy
GesolatiOn of the cemetery.
Kneil of the Dead.
BY an official proclamation of Mayor
Harrison Saturday was set aside as a
day of mourning. Business in the down
town district practically was suspended.
The ltrge department stores closed at
o'clock, the Board of Trade at IL
O'Clock, and the Stock Exchange. Board
of Education, the courts and the public
offices in the County Building and the
City Hall were closed throughout the
day.
Slowly, solemniy, boom of many
bells sounded the knell OF the dead who
persisted in the Iroquois TheGter fire. In
the hour between noon and 1 o'clock the
melancholy clangor echoed through the
city. From Rogers Park to Kenslugton,
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four years ago and which did its work
IN practically twenty minutes. This fire
occurred during a Rogers brothers re-
hearsal and the players on the stage
were protected by the fire curtain. While
there was no loss of life more property
damage was done than will probably re-
suit from the Iroquois fire, and the re
suits if the house had been filed, as was
the Iroquois, can only be imagined
Occasional panics have occurred from
time to time in Chicago theaters. started
by false alarms in the theater or by
fires near by. but they have caused no
loss of life.
In the great Chicago fire of 1871, the
largest contiagration of modern times, in
which ?, l24 acres were devastated. but
200 lives were lost, SO far as the most re-
liable information showed
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were crushed under foot Girls thew
themselves from the balconies and lay
crushed and dying till suffocation ended
their miseries.
Over 1000 people In the orchestra
seats, with easy access to the doors, grad
ually made their way to safety, but most
of them threw aside wraps, pocketbooks.
hats-everything that seemed to burden
them in their rush for life and the open
air. In spite OF the panic in spite of the
suffocation, nearly all OF them were
saved
Upper Floors Death Traps.
But in the balcony and the gallery the
angel Of destruction wrought his fright
full work at will. The flame and smoke
gathering on these upper floors caught
the people before they realized the full
extent OF the danger. 1t seemed incredi
BILE that the little rush of fire could lap
the walls so quickly and reach out after
them like a stroke OF lightning.
Then when the full meaning OF the
disaster came &c them they fought and
battled with one another for safety-bat-
tied like stampeded animals with the
deadly smoke curling all about them, ev-
erything plunged into absolute darkness.
not even a friendly lantern to show them
the way out of this dance Of death.
The classic outlines of the theater, the
beautiful plush hangings. the arched win
dows with their stained glass. the state
ly pillars. became a morgue tive minutes
after the first little ribbon OF flame made
its way along the stage.
Women and girls in the gallery never
had a chance for life. They met the end
still seated in their theater chairs. their
poor impotent hands burnt into one COM
mingled cinder with the sides of the seats
they had grasped when the panic came.
Others who had managed by the
strength of terror TO get into the aisles
found their awful ending in a mingled
doom OF smoke and fire and tearing OF
limbs In the passages and the open
space back OF the seats. Dozens of 9TH
ers. swept. carried, dragged or thrown
ont to the stairways, ard even beyond
them down to the landings in actual
sight OF the daylight that streamed
through the big front doorS--in sight OF
the throngs outside, the ire wagons and
the smoking horses-died in great masses
seven and eight feet high. limbs mingled
fesrfully together. clothing burnt off and
faces caught in their last aSonies. all
turned toward the doors they could not
reach.
From windows at the north aud west
ends of the building the victims strearaed.
blinded by the smoke and erazed beyond
any possibility of helping themselves fur
Their or OF taking advantage OF the aid
extended to them from tbs upper floors
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SENDS
MESSAGE OF CONDOlENCE

The following telegram Of coincidence
from President Roosevelt was received
by Mayor Harrison;
Garter II. Harrison. Mayor of
Chicago: In common with all our
people throughout this land. | ex-
tend through You TO the people OF
Chicago my deepest sympathy in
the terrible catastrophe which has
befallen them.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
kilograms poured in in an avalanche.
Arsong them were messages from Wen
ma. Liverpool. Philadelphia aud Chatta-
nooga and Other cities.
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HORROR IOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Men fell on their knees and prayed.
Men and women cursed.
For an hour the rescue work was car
ried on without other light than that Of
candles.
Of the 500 persons seated in the first
and second balconies few if any escaped
wissent serious injury.
Under pretense of serving as rescuers
ghouls gained entrance to the theater and
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Whirlwind of Flame EnveIops
Balconies, Filled with Holt
day Crowds.
Scene of Horror Intensified as Scores
Leap to Street or Fall from
the Escapes.
Catastrophe Is Said to Have Been
Caused by Explosion of a
Calcium Light.

Nearly six hundred men, women
and children met a fearful death at the
new Iroquois Theater in Chicago We'd
nesday afternoon-tortured and inciner-
ated by fire, suffocated by smoke and
gases, and crushed into nothingness by
one another while struggling to escape
the impending doom.
Hundreds of others are lying between
life and death, with limbs broken and
burnt, at their homes and in hospitals,
while every undertaking establishment in
the city was filled with dead bodies,
many of which could not be identified.
The disaster, the most appalling of the
character that ever has befallen Chi
cago, occurred in the middle of the mat
inee performance of MIR. Blue Beard, :"
with fully 1900 people in the audience,
a large proportion of them women. girls
and little children.
A calcium light on stand six feet
above the level of the stage exploded,
and in a moment little streak of flame
had caught the tinsel Of the stage set
tings. flooding everything back of the
footlights in wave Of fire.
Panic Seizes the Crowd.
Eddie FOy, the chief comedian of the
company, stood out from the panic
stricken group on the stage to assure the
audience that there was no danger. Even
as he spoke the great asbestos curtain
was let down, caught on one side and
failed to work.
In another instant smoke burst out
from the top arch of the stage and from
under the bottom of the curtain, and be-
fore a man or woman in the seats could
rise the whole roof of the auditorium
was in n blaze. Two gas tanks explod-
ed in the flies on the east side of the
theater, and black, choking fumes beat
down in cloud Of death from every
wall
That was all. Fear, uncomfortable
and terrible, reigned. Men and women
fought like wild beasts, filed only with
the desire for self-preservation. Little
babies slipped from their mothers up
lifted arms and in an instant their lives
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12
WORST IN couNTRYs HISTORY.
No Previous Playhouse Fire So De.
structive to Human Life


The Iroquois Theater disaster in Chi
cago was vastly more destructive to hui
man life than any other playhouse fire
in the history of this country. The fire
next to it in point of lives lost occurred
Dec. 5, 1876, in Conway's Brooklyn The
alter, Brooklyn, n. Y. Here 295 of the
audience persisted in fierce flames. The
day after Christmas in 1911, while the
play, The Bleeding Num-" was being
performed in a theater at Richmond,
Va, fire started that burned seventy
persons to death, among them the Gov
ernor of the State, George W. Smith
Only two European theater catastrophes
approach that of the local playhouse. On
Dec. 8, 1881, the Ring Theater in vi
emma burned and S75 lives were lost In
the destruction Of Lehman's Theater in
st. Petersburg between 600 and 700 per-
sons were killed.
The most recent theater fire in Chicago
before this was the one that destroyed
the Columbia Theater in Monroe street