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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
1
Chicago dispatch reports a disaster at the Iroquois Theatre leaving 564 dead and 157 injured with 314 missing. Morgues remain crowded as families search for loved ones under police guard while a representative jury investigates the blaze and authorities vow full accountability.
Eye witness account details how several residents, including a high school teacher Miss Florence Chase who is missing, narrowly survive dangerous events in Mushcutine. Many engagements are canceled but lives are saved despite grave circumstances.
Chicago officials compiled a list of fifty seven unidentified female victims aged nine to twenty after the Iroquois theater disaster. Color of shoe laces noted as sole identification. coroner and mayor urge quiet for New Year. jurors troubled by morgue scenes.
Eyewitness report from Chicago describes panic as lights failed and exits proved inaccessible. Fire broke out around 3 30 pm from a stage calcium light explosion, trapping 2000 plus patrons while flames scorched costumes and chorus. Police and firemen recovered bodies in darkness, struggle for escape ending in numerous deaths.
A Muscatine theater fire sent John W. McKee and several residents scrambling from the third floor to the street. Helena Davidson Beatrice Edmiston and Bessie Letts escaped amid chaos losing hats gloves and a pocketbook. Ex Senator Carpenter and other locals narrowly avoided danger while others missed the matinee due to engagements or travel.
In Muscatine, nearly a dozen residents escaped harm due to chances of fate, Providence, or an unseen factor. The report frames the events as a stroke of luck that spared multiple lives with little detail on the cause or individuals involved.
Washington message from Theodore Roosevelt extends deepest sympathy to Mayor Carter Harrison and the people of Chicago for the terrible catastrophe that has befallen them, as reported in Chicago on December 31.
The Lake Shore Limited eastbound derailed at Astabula Ohio due to an open switch. Three trainmen were killed and a fourth injured, with no passengers harmed.
A Chicago blaze at the United States Leather company factory today killed one man and severely injured two others. The estimated loss is $50,000.
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with a colder Friday. Windy conditions possible, especially in the west portion tonight. U.S. weather forecast for the Iowa region and Chicago area notes a drop in temperatures into the weekend.
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