The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-04
BURIAL OF FIRE VICTIMS
SUNDAY IN CHICAGO 4 DAT OF
 FUNERALS.

takers ana Mauy Families were Com-
 peiIed to Postpone Obsequies-Another
 Death and Farther Idsntifications--
 The Mayors and coroner's Investiga-
 lions.
 Chicago, Jan. S.-Sunday was a day of funerals in Chicago, and 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 unpre- cedented demand for hearses and car riages would have been enough it itself 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 Chicago are miles from the business center and residential districts, and with good weather and the streets in passable condition it is a matter of several hours to reach one of them To-day when every hearse was in ur- gent demand it required about twice as long to reach a cemetery as under nor mai conditions. 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 them use of the hearse for a second funeral in the afternoon. In number of cases this was done, but there were instances where the families who were to wait for the return of the hearses were disappointed and were compelled to defer the burial of their dead until tomorrow. It is not expected that there will be any further trouble in this direction after to-day, and by to-mor- row the streets to the cemeteries will be in such condition as to permit the passage of funerals in almost the ordi- nary time.
 The cemeteries were compelled to keep men at work all through the night digging graves, and in some of the larger cemeteries they barely managed to make them with sufficient speed. At one time this afternoon fourteen bur ials were in progress in Rose Hill cem- etery, and all of them were the inter- ments of victims of the fire.
 In the rooms of one undertaken on the south side of the city a fraternal or ganization held services over five mem pbers of their order at the same time, and all of them were buried side by side in Waldhein cemetery. The fun- eral service over the remains of Ella and Edyth Prediction, sisters, were held in Boulevard Hall. at Fifty-ffth and Halstead streets, fully two thou- sand persons being in attendance and | five hundred more standing outside in the biting 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 William H. Garn, and her three children. A crowd of more than one thousand per- sons surrounded the house and the po- lice were compelled to open passage way for the pall-bearers when they 1 left the house with the caskets. The 1 funeral was one of the largest ever seen on the west side of the city, over one hundred carriages, all private equip ages, being in the procession, which went to Graceland cemetery. | A funeral conducted in a humber manner was held a few squares from the Wolff residence. It was that of | Mrs. Mary w. Hoist 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 gath 1 cred outside the pretentious Wolff man. sion. and here, as in front of MT. Wolffs residence, the police were com pelled to open passage-way for the caskets as they were borne to the | hearses.
 l These are but instances of what hap pened throughout the length and breadth of hicago to-day. Multiply the funerals mentioned by twenty and a I better idea can be had of this first Sab bath in the new year.
 The list of dead was increased to 58S to-day by the death of LeRoy Rain 1 hold, boy of four years, who was se- verely burned, and died in St. Luke's hospital. Of the ten bodies at the county morgue, four were identified to- | day. They were:
 Fair, Mrs. Mary A.
 LuQWlS, pttulS.
 Lemenager, Dorothy, thirteen years. Reynolds Emma, seven years.
 The injured now number 1O3, of whom there is any record, although the number of those who were hurt slightly would swell this number greatly. Mum lbers of people went to their homes af- ter the fire without reporting them selves to the police as injured.
 Less than twenty persons called to-
 day at the office of the chief of police for permits to visit morgues and few people were at the hospitals.
 John Schmidt, the stage hand who is Isaid to have left open the reflector which prevented the asbestos curtain from descending, is still sought by the police. He is believed to be in hiding lin the city. but the chief of police re- ceived an intimation from his friends lthat Schmidt will be ready when he is wanted as a witness at the coroner s inquest next Thursday.
 There were no more arrests of mem- bers of the "Bluebeard" company to- l day and-~acf more are expected unless there sMould be unexpected develop ments. Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler declared that no further ob- stacle would be placed in the way of members of the company who desired to leave the city.
 s'I have been assured by Klaw & Err llenger,'' he said that any member of