The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1904-01-05

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Twelve members of the city council
Thursday inspected the theater and
after doing so returned to the city hall
and called on tne building department.
They asked to see the plans of the
theater and Mr.. Stanhope produced
them. How about sprinklers?" de-
manded Alderman Jones, who was one
of the investigating committee.
1.-The way the theater is built, they
can be left out" Mr.. Stanhope replied.
And anyhow the flames spread SO
rapidly that no sprinkling system
would have availed anything"
Alderman Jones then remarked that
the ordinance requires all exits to be
marked.
THAT will be looked into" Mr. Stan
hope said. Remember, however, that
the lights were out and that many of
the people were killed in their seats"
Pointing to the diagram Of the thea
| ter. Alderman Herman said
Here is a passageway on the south
side of the first balcony which looks
as though it led to a stairway. But
in the darkness the people scrambling
| through it were caught like rats in
trap. They could not get either way.
The confusion of exits was such that
no one could find his way in the dark.
If those things are considered exits,
I don't know what constitutes an exit
that would be of any use F"
Mr.. Stanhope told the aldermen that
he had made an inspection of the
building and that structurally it was
good.
you can not convince me-" declar-
ed Alderman Herman, IF you talk for
hundred years, that people could get
out of that place. l do not care what
they-earl the exits, they did not work,
there were not enough of them open
and the people could not get out.
! These plans show aisles at the end of
the first floor, but we were over there
and saw the seats run bang up against
the railing, leaving no aisle at all.
Now what want to know is. did these
people in building this theater live up
to the plans they submitted to the city
building department? Here there
seemed to be ample exits on paper,
but a number of friends of mine got
badly scorched just the same
"On the first floor they got out"
said Mr. Stanhope
my friends were on the first floor,
but they got burned on their backs
Just the same" Alderman Herman re-
joined.
Alderman Friestadt declared that in
the second balcony there is not suffi-
cient room when the seats are down,
to allow any one to walk between
them. Alderman Scully and Alderman
Conery took from the floor of the stage
bits of the stage curtain, none of which
was larger than the palm of a hand,
for examination to the store of an as
bestos company. The bits were shown
to be of asbestos, although the exam
iner pronounced it of a low grade
"They wanted a cheap curtain and
they got it" an incautious clerk re-
marked He was instantly hushed up
by one of the members of the COM
pany, who added that they did not
wish to discuss the matter, inasmuch
as they had bid upon supplying the
curtain to the theater and their bid
had been rejected for a lower one.
Chicago, Jan. Pup TO Friday mid
night $50 dead bodies from the Iro-
quois theater fire and panic Of We'd
nesday had been accounted for. This
is believed to be the total number of
dead. OF these $50 bodies. 361 have
been identified, leaving only q uni
Identified at morgues.
Chicago, Jan. 2.-Chicago never wit
messed such day of mourning as that
which ushered in the new year In
every portion of the city almost it
seemed as though there were funerals
going, or undertaken wagons arriving
with dead, taking them to their homes
for the last time.
While the funeral professions were
moving through the snow-covered
throngs about the various morgues
seemed almost as large as ever. The
scenes here were the same as those of
Wednesday night and of Thursday and
Thursday night. Many men appeared
at the door of Rolston's and Jordans
morgues Friday afternoon who had
been on their feet for 4S hours con-
stantly searching for those they had
lost. The greater number of unidenti-
fled dead are in these two places, and
men who had viewed the CHASTITY rows
Of corpses before and had gone on
unavailing search to every other
morgue in Chicago, went back once
more to Rolston's and to Jordan's al
most 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 morning In some cases
they were successful, in many others
they were not.
1t was impossible for relatives to
secure all the carriageS they wished
to convey friends and relatives to GEM
, etcries. In many cases it was not pos
sible for all members of the immedi
ate family to ride in the funeral pro-
cession because no carriages could be