The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-06
AFTER THE FIRE
HORRORS OF THE LATE HOL.
OCAUST ATCHICAGO.
Father With Dead B,dy of His
Boy in His Arms Forced Street
Car Conductor at Pistol
Point to Let Him Ride
Whole City Mourns.

Point to Let Him Ride
| Whole City Mourns.
| Chicago, Jan. 1 Chicago, great,
busy, virile, energetic, mirth-loving
Chicago, saw New Years come in,
but watched it with face somber
and haggard. 10 the street there
twas no merrial. Mt. For the first
time in the history of the city there
had occurred something carrying a
J shock sufficiently tremendous to ev-
cry ,ber element to make every
man thoughtful and respectful.
Chicago thinks of nothing, for
days, for weeks, will think of moth
ing but that horrible scene at the
disastl GUS theatre f,e. The great
tremendous heart of the town itself,
the greatest embodiment Of sheer
energy the world has ever seen in a
! community, is deathly sick, desper-
ately hurt. Chicago is heartbroken.
Early Today there existed still
that terrible monotone of grietL,he
istupor amounting almost to apathy
which had possessed the souls of
sll throughout the night. Later
there seemed to come to all greater,
sharper anguish, which increased
steadily throughout the day. What
had be.n too great to be personal
now did become Personal.
! Great and singular spectacle,
that of an entire CITY plunged into
grief and sorrow, 100000 people
mourning as though they we're two
score or less. Two million people
at last keenly awakened to re
l alizing sense of horror of this which
has befallen.
The Capitalization point of thit
general grief was the question o
Identification Of the dead. The las
item of horror came to hand in th
cruel certainty that no matter how
patient and careful the search nigh
be, the fate Of many missing one
could never by any possibility b
known.
1t is no wonder that men 81
silent in sc-nes accustomed to rev
elpv and hilarity at these bours.
With bis dead boy in his arms
grief-stricken father half crszed b
1.-THE events of yesterday afternoon
held a revolver to the head of
Wabash avenue car conductor an
compelled him to give passage t
his dead. No more dramatic inci
dert of all the thousand of strang
and unprecedented happenings {
those wild hours following the no
ocaust has been recorded than thi
one. The father had got his boy 8
the morgue aud as he sought to en-
ter the car the conductor saw tina
, the child was dead and hesitate
for a moment. He was facing
condition that bad never before 6
risen in his experience, the admi:
sion of a corpse, even though 8
I small and pitiful one to his car.
] "You can't get on with tbs
body" he said at length. Eye
* that had been unseeing of sudde
= flashed fire., The father lifted h
. little burden to his left arm Will
: with bis left band hebrew a revol,
s s er. eff you don't stand aside an
z let me on here with my dead be
{ I'l1 blow your brains out" he sal
Z simply. without passion, but with
= force and intensity that carried col
s viction. ut is sijmpossible to get
s cab," be continued, "and Pm goir
E home. You stand aside"
4 A half dozen passengers hurrie
Z to the platform and added the
z force to the argument and the col
s ductor suddenly changed front an
s allowed the Borrowing man TO g,
z ter. He rode home with his still
( white burden on his knees.
4 As stated the new year brougl
2 no relief to the tired deputies of II
s morgues and the details of polio
s Anxious relatives of the unfortu1
E ate victims thronged the streets j
E front of the coroner's Office az
I mobid crowds still hold sway at Il
: scene Of the dreadful disaster. tt
s exact number of the dead may ne
s er be. known, as many "standin
z room tickets were sold and mar
Z of the purchasers were strangers
Z the city.
81 Cara Stillman, daughter of Pr
q fessor John NJ. Stillmau of the L
: land Stanford Jr, University
California, was among those wi
lost their lives. The young woma
with her twin sister, Nina Stillms
; was visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. I
5, Mulligan, at % Linden court, CT