Fire Inferno at Iroquois Theater Kills Hundreds
Chicago reports the Iroquois Theater disaster where a fatal blaze and panic on December 1 or 2 trapped and crushed about 1,300 patrons. Estimates vary with at least 560 dead and 55 missing, many burned or gasified, while Eddie Foy and other performers escaped. The fire is blamed on a faulty asbestos curtain and a ruptured drop, with rescuers fighting through mass casualties.
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Tim
A. Roaken
Zanesvile
Marcella Warren
Columbes
J. H. Dodd
Delaware
Mr. Bluebeard
Eddie Foy
Gene
Ames
Will J. Davis
Gail
Iscaea
Paris
Chicago theater fire toll rises amid mourning crowds
The Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago on New Year's day leaves an estimated 560 dead with about 1,000 casualties. Officials report 509 identified and 50 to 55 still unrecognized. 337 missing. Mayor Harrison proclaims restraint on celebrations, vows probe, and area theaters face scrutiny as families search for loved ones in morgue scenes of grief.
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Dearborn Streets
Randolph Street
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Musham
Fire Department
Chicago
Buffala
Morgar
Gayety
Carter H. Harrison
Harrison
Iroquois Theater
Chicero
Beaumont
Chicago Architects’ Association
Df W. A. Pridmore
Berlin
Prussia
E. S. Willard
London
Condo Jence
Collins
Boston
St. Louis
New York
Arrests, pensions, and inland land frauds in early 1900s reports
The dispatches note multiple items including the arrest of John A. Benson in New York on bribery charges tied to a California and Oregon land title scheme, recovery of two bodies among several mentioned, and a New Year’s pension total of 150,828 certificates issued for 1963. Other items cover typhoid cases in Butler and factory shutdowns in Parkerburg, plus efforts to secure the Democratic national convention for New York in 1904 and Chicago. The report also mentions a probate ruling on relatives of Robert Kimberly and naval news about additional vessels joining the Glass fleet in Panama.
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New York
John A. Benson
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Benson
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Frederick A. Litte
Republic Lands
California
Oregon
F. Ware
Commissioner of Pensions
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