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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1904
Page
9
Chicago reporters recount a staggering death toll from the Iroquois theater blaze. Morgues hold 564 dead with 157 injured and 314 missing, as families scour hospitals and morgues for loved ones. A ten day truce ends the undertaker and livery drivers strike amid the disaster.
A devastating blaze at the Iroquois Theater on Randolph Street yesterday afternoon during Mr. Blue Beard killed or fatally injured well over six hundred. Fire officials say the asbestos curtain failure and a draft worsened the disaster as crowds of about eighteen hundred men, women, and children fled through doors and stairwells. many perished in the front balcony doorway while attempting to escape.
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