Chicago's Awful Theater Horror

and rain of a summer storm, that was the position of the dead a

up the stairs in the dark to the front rows of the victims, some of them were alive and struggling, but so pinned down

then the rest of the bodies were lifted easily and regularly from

point of physical exertion, the police department has never been taxed as it has been taxed tonight. Men hav

pass the uniformed police who guarded the heaps of sealskins, purses, and tangled valuables behind them. A spokesman for the management, backed up by a negro special

of the coroner," replied the chie

to make sure of the safety of these

lice is responsible,"

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s Anne Hough, 361 East Fifty-eighth street, to the matinee. They were sitting in the middle of the seventh row from the rear of the first floor. When the first flames broke through fr

s, breaking it and forcing their way through. One woman fell down in the crowd directly in front of me. She looked up and said, 'For God's sake, don'

ANGER IN HEROIC

iscopal church. "I heard the cry for volunteers and joined the men who went into the place to carry out th

over the seats. The bodies were in piles. Women had their hands over their faces as if to shield off

at many of the audience had been unable to get even near the exits. Women were bent over the seats, their fingers clinched on the

f a clergyman as it were a gift from God. There appeared to be little system i

FOUR CHILD

Jessie, Tony, and Jennie Guerrier, of 135 North Sangamon street, their ages ranging from 11 to 17

frightened. Men and women hurried past me, shouting like wild beasts, and if I had joined them the children and I would have been trampled under foot. It was minutes before I could leave with the two younger children. The

," and he led the distracted woman into one of the "first aid hospitals." There Mrs.

ILDREN HA

-Berien is the name," shouted H.

eisman. "They are all right and hav

ational Cash Register company, 50 State street, to inform

some chance they had made their way out uninjured. The story of their plight touched a stranger, who took them to a

HIS DA

r way to this office and was sitting in a frightened s

ttle figure, he stopped. With a glad cry, father and daughter rushed into each

t out of the parquet uninjured. With him was George Field, a

LD'S NA

, "when we saw fire at the top of the proscenium ar

e no trouble. While he was speaking, however, a burning brand fell alongside of him, and then c

e struggling through the straight aisles there was not so much trouble except that some of the fugitives fell to the floor and had to be helped on their feet again. At times the women and children would be lying four deep on the

up into indiscriminate heaps. The screams and cries they uttered were something terrible. It was an

he fire. The fire darted directly among them and the chairs began burning at once. Those on this floor f

rs who was not injured. Whoever was behind us must have been suffocate

APES OF YO

s with her mother in the third row, was left behind in the rush for safety. She climbed to the top of the seat and, stepping from one chair to a

ith Mr. Kenneth Collins and Miss Helen Dickinson, 3637 Michigan

iss Coulter, "but the fire, which was bursting out from

n of 70, with a long, white beard, was standin

pping down from above at the left of the curtain. At the same time small puffs of smoke seemed to shoot o

m. 'If you don't look ou

body seemed to get up and start to get out of the place at once. From all over the house came shrieks a

ome people whom I thought must be actors, who came running out from somewhere in the interior of the house, and whose wigs and clothes were on fire. We tried to beat out the flames as we went along. B

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esting on her feet. I managed to pull her out, and I think she got down in safety. One of the men with me also pulled out another woman from

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f their clothing. Four of the children stayed together, the other two being for the time lost in the street. The four were Hannah Greg