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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1904
Page
1
Hundreds of funerals marched toward Chicago area cemeteries as coffins and mourners crowded services during a period of mass bereavement. Clergy urged calm and unity while communities grieved the loss across multiple neighborhoods.
Mayor Harrison orders immediate closure of seventeen theaters and more closures until compliance with city rules. Coroner Traeger and officials review missing bodies, identify victims, and recount efforts at morgues and relief centers. Thirty four teachers among dead. searchers catalog jewelry and clothing to identify remains. Several theater workers and chorus members are held as witnesses.
Dubuque region job printers demand eight hours work daily and await instructions from the International union.
Following the Iroquois Theatre fire, twenty nine people are under arrest with more than a dozen facing manslaughter charges. Warrants for Will J. Davis Harry J Powers and City Inspector Williams were issued. they were told to bond for later court appearance. The list includes theater officials electricians stage hands and other company members along with numerous unidentified deceased numbers remain in morgues.
The latest list of identifications adds many names to the dead recognized by friends and relatives since the previous notice. Individuals named include Armon, Margaret Helms, Otto Alison, Alfred Ludwig, Miss BE Alexander, Melba Higginson, Roger Fagley, Helen D. Irie, Mrs. Andrew Poowman, Miss B Kwanteski, John Beznek, Joseph Meade, Mrs. M Beyer, infant Mohan, H. B. Brown, Hazel McLaughlin, and Wm.
The report states 582 bodies have been accounted for while 561 have been identified, outlining the ongoing identification process.
Des Moines reports allege infractions by the Trroquoisa The ater Company and officials including overcrowding of over 200 in aisles, lack of sprinklers, broken fire alarms, locked exits, discrepancies in capacity statements, unprotected lighting, flammable stage drapery, no extinguishers, unmarked exits, and non fireproof stage fittings. Funeral notices for Mrs Stark and Mrs Tuttle, victims of a Chicago fire, announced from Des Moines with additional family service details.
John Alexander Dowie begins a journey from Zion City after a large turnout of residents sees the General Overseer depart. He is accompanied by four individuals as crowds gather in Chicago on January 2.
Leaders gathered in Zion City to bid farewell as Dowie embarks on a global voyage. He will visit New Orleans for a week, then travel via the southwestern route to San Francisco for meetings, sail January twenty one to Australia to join his wife and son, conduct sermons, proceed to India and Africa, then Zurich for a European Christian conference before London and New York, arriving June twentieth.
The Express Gazette reports 1908 robbery totals and a fourteen year record. It notes 13 trains held up in 1908, 22 the previous year, 6 stage robberies in 1908, and 7 last year. Also included is Horace G. Burt resigning as Union Pacific president after 35 years. A Bloomington Illinois street car strike sees Chicago workers brought in to replace strikers as talks stall.
Pittsburg January 2 3000 workers at the Edgar Thomson steel works and eleven Braddock blast furnaces accepted the wage reduction offered. Objections were minor in smaller departments where day wages and salaries are paid.
A blaze at the Louvre hotel on Lake Avenue killed Patrick Ryan retired merchant, Mrs Florence Chapin, and Prisell Chapin, a 12 year old, with four others injured. Nearly 100 guests were in the building when the fire broke out causing panic as guests fled to the street. All the deceased were overcome by smoke.
Washington January 2 Treasury department auditors opened an inquiry into the Interstate Commerce Commission accounts at Acting Chairman Clements bid. Accountants Nathanel Ambrose Richard H Taylor and James L Chase sealed the commission safe and questioned Secretary Edward A Moseley cashier Milstead and other staff. Milstead not suspended.
Fire gutted the rectory on East Twenty ninth street. Four women servants were carried out by firemen. Miss Houghton, daughter of the rector, was rescued from her bedroom window and brought down a ladder. Rev. Dr. Houghton, overcome by smoke, was rescued from a rear window. The adjacent church was in danger for a time.
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