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Show --SrsL MATINEE TURNED IN FEW MINUTES TO FEARFUL TRAGEDY Dr. George C- - Ownlby HOLIDAY Optician and Eye Specialist. The latest instruments for tecting abnormal vision. Glasses fitted. 564 PERSONS de- Men, Women and Children Burned, Suffocated or Trampled Beneath Bushing Feet People in Galleries Cut Off from All Escape and Await an Awful Fate Firemen and Police in Heroic Rescue guaranteed. Cen- ter Street. P. Work Bodies Found Piled in Heaps. Paulson, IVl. The story of the destruction of the tell the tale. Few if any In that throng realized what was to come. They thought only of themselves and their dear ones as they pushed and strugBest set of teeth $10.00 gled for every Inch as they advanced 1.00 Filling teeth In the second act. The stage waa toward the exits. It was but a moment until the stairlighted only by the soft artificial 1.00 Cleaning teeth beams from the calcium, which lent ways leading from the balcony were a All work guaranteed first class. beauty to the scene during the sing- mass of struggling humanity, with Teeth extracted without pain ing of The Pale Moonlight" by the scores behind constantly pushing closer and lighting .to get out. Those double sextet. Office over U. 0. Store A flash of flame shot across through in the van, unable to keep their footthe flimsy draperies, started by a ing, fell headlong. ' Those behind fell spark from the calcium. A show girl over their prostrate forma, crushing screamed hysterically. The singers and suffocating the,m. The scene was then a veritable bedstopped short, hut with presence' of mind the director increased the vol- lam. Women and children were In the ume of the music. majority in the fighting crowd, and Scores rose In their seats as the their shrieks of agonizing fear mingled manager shouted an order for a with the groans of the dying the prayAll kinds of cement work done stage continuation of the song. It was ers of supplication In those dark moand guaranteed. obeyed with feeble hearts. The brave ments poor souls who had perhaps IroquoW theater by lire on the afternoon of Dec. 30, by which 600 lives were lost. Is ss follows: The theater was almost In darkness DENTIST, J. E. Wilson, jr.. Cement Contractor, Residence, li!8 S. 1st East St oowooooowooowo I FULTON t MflrRKET$ 0 VTm. BEADING, Pbop. 0 V t Fish and Game in Season. t CENTER ST. LOGAN. OWOOOOOO OOOOWOO tan Abstract Co Abstracts correctly, promptly, and quickly made. Real estate and Fire Irsur-anc- Crush at Second Balcony. e. Deeds, Wills, Mortgages, Contracts, etc., drawn. 7 1 N. Main St., 'phone 4k. Logan, Utah. nmns! girls forced the words from their long unheeded religion throats until two of their number their God. swponed. The audience could no lon- ger be controlled. Reassuring Words in Vain. Eddie Foy, the principal comedian, rushed from the wings to the footlights. but hiB words of reassurance were in vain. Clouds of smoke poured from the stage into the auditorium, enveloping the struggling masB of men, women and children. Behind the scenes all was confusion. It required but a moment to perceive that the fire had gone too far to be conquered by the amateur fire brigade formed by the stage hands. as high as the In the dressing-roomBixth story were the scores of girls of ihe ballet. At the first alarm the elevator boy fled from his post and the flames soon shot upward in the wings and made escape by the narrow stairways impossible. The screams and groans of despair from the imprisoned girls in the upper came to the rows of dressing-room- s ears of the more fortunate below as they rushed to the stage doors. Some stopped for a brief moment, thinking to give aid. but the clouds of smoke, growing denser and denser, forced them to flee. Tlicir escape even then was miraculous. Escape from Stage Easy. Those who had been singing on the stage escaped easily. Two of their number who had fainted were carried in the arms of the others, and were revived in the alley in the rear of the theater. In a terrified and hysterical group the girlB clustered In the narrow passage. Some had sisters and all had friends The bitter in the blazing building. and cold pierced them through In clad were for only they through, their thin stage gowns, with necks and arms wholly exposed. - Nevertheless they had to be dragged from their station in the alley and into neighboring panic-stri- Architects, Campbell and Morrell Block, Main Street. Logan. Utah cken s RI PA N S Tabues Doctors find A good prescription For mankind. package is enough tor nsnal Ths family bottle 60 oente oooaaiona. oontains a supply for a year. All drag Ths nt fiiatesell th.o PATRONIZE Studio Odells FOR FIRST CLASS Photos RICKS BLOCK MAIN STREET Successor to THOMAS & ODELL H. D. HAUSEN Shoe Repairer, Door West Nielsens Livery Stable. Good substantial work done. Prices Reasonable. Give him a call. 1 East and North Preston branch Balt Lake, Ogden 11:15 9:UU sod South Within a block are a dozen great buildings occupied almost exclusively by doctors, and in a remarkably short time a great host of physicians came to give voluntary service to those in distress. They Baved the lives of scores of women and children, frenzied with pain, who would have died in the Btreet or under the kindly shelter of the neighboring buildings. Rush from Orchestra Seats. The great majority of those who occupied orchestra seats had escaped with their lives, though scores were badly hurt In the rush. Some" were knocked down, and, with broken limbs, were unable to rise. They bad been left to die with a number of women who fainted from fright. With these bodies were found the corpses of those who had leaped from the balcony and gallery. In the exits of the balcony and galleries the greatest loss of life occurred. When the firemen went to remove the bodies they found 100 or more piled in indescribable mass In each place. The clothes were torn completely away from some of the bodies. Here and there a Jeweled hand protruded from the pile. All the faces were distorted with the death agonies. Moan from Heap of Dead. From beneath this mangled mass of humanity there suddenly came the moan of a woman. It was a cry of anguish, not of pain. The cry, faint though It was, pierced to the very soul, sounding above the yells of the firemen, the moans of agony from within the smoke-filleauditorium, and the shrieks of grief maddened fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers in the street without. Trembling hands plunged their way into the tangle of human forms, and with a mighty effort pulled to the surface the woman could such a thing be a human being? from whose lips had come the cry. The blackened lips parted, and a fireman bent over her to catch the words. Mother Love Is Uppermost. My child, my poor little boy! Where is he? Oh, do bring him to me." There in that awful hour, her body bruised beyond recognition in the mad fight for life that followed the first flash of flame across the stage there was mother love uppermost. Again the trembling lips parted. "Is he safe? Tell me he is safe and I can die." He is safe," the fireman muttered, and all knew his reply was best She died, and her body was lited tenderly with those of the hundred others in that one spot. The calamity was so overwhelming that the firemen and the policemen who were the first to reach the upper part of the house could not realize Its j astounding extent. They began by : dragging a body or two from the terrl-- I hie piles at the head of the stairways, as if they did not know the piles were made of human bodies. Gradually the full slgnficance of the dawned upon them. All catastrophe j the lights of the theater had been extinguished. The lanterns of the firemen cast only a dim glow over the piles of dead. From the bodies arose a.m. p. sa 2:15 A 9 p. m, Providence, Millville, Hyrum 9 a m. and Paradise 12 m Benson and King, College, Wednesday and Sat12:00 m. urday OR MAILA. Salt Lake, East, West, North 9:30 a. m end and South 6:25 a.m. 8:13 a. m. 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The first seconds of the rush for life were quiet, ssy those who live to called upon oooooooo J Z. STEWYRT . HAS PLENTY OF MONEY TO LOAN. The longest and best list o: real estate for sale. First class Insurance companies. Does all kinds of legal work Mothers Plead for Babes. Women seized their babes in their arms and frantically clung to them, beseeching ears that were deaf to entreaty to save them from the terrible fate impending. Had the others lieen so disposed they could not have given the assistance so piteously besought. In the last hope, horn of desperation, scores climbed to the railing and leaped to the pit of the theater, many 0 feet below. Their mangled bodieB were found long afterward when the smoke cleared away and the firemen could grope their way with lanterns 0 into the grewsonie house of death. The dense smoke quickly rose to the top and added new horror to the grastly spectacle. To a score of those who had sought to jump from the gal- lery the smoke was kind, for it brought death more qiiickly. Their bodies were found hanging over the rail, their faces distorted with agonies of death, Firemen Quick, but Too Late. From a dozen sources the alarm went to lire headquarters, but before the vanguard of engines wheeled into the street a dense crowd had gathered in front of1 the theater. The fireOregon Short Line Railroad men were quick to act, but hundreds NOETHEOOND. of bodies were already. motionless No. 15. Daily.Mixed 22. Dally. No. within the waljs of the playhouse. ...12:50 Pocatello p. m... 2:80 a. m. An crowd stood fixedly 6:45 p. m... 11:45 p. m. .. Lake Salt as those who had been nearest the 7:15 p. m... 1:25 a. m. Ogden' doors rushed out their eyes wild with 8:55 p.m... 5:30 a. m. Cache Jet fear. These yelled "Fire!' at the top Mendon .. .. 9:13 p.m... 6:00 a.m. of their lungs, and the cry was taken 9:30 p. m... 6:25 a. m. Logan up by the crowd and carried far into Smithfield .. 9:48 p. m... 7:00 a. m. Richmond .. 9:59 p. m... 7:42 a. m. busy State street and the other avenues of commerce. Franklin .. 10:18 p. m... 8:16 a. m. Arrives. None realized at that minute what had occurred. Each man asked his 10:35 p. m... 9:10 jl m. Preston neighbor if there had been loss of life 80UTH BOUND. or injury. Not until the first blackened Leaves. and limp body was borne forth In the arms of a policeman did the enormity No. 12. Daily. No. It. Daily. Mixed of the disaster begin to dawn on those 7:10 a. m... 9:40 a. m. Preston in the street. Franklin .... 7:27 a. m... 10:00 a. m. Richmond .. 7:42 a. m.. .10:40 a. m. Rapid Growth of Death List. Smithfield .. 7:56 a. m... 11:10 a. m. In fifteen minutes nineteen dead 8:15 a. m.. .12:50 p. m. Logan bodies were carried out. Then they Mendon .... 8:38 a. m... 1:10 p. m. came so fast that all count waa lost. Entrance to Iroquois Theater. Cache Jet .. 8:55 a. m... 1:35 p. m. Many of those first brought out were Arrives. moans steam. still alive. Their pitiful The firemen had struck small curls of 10:30 a. m... 5:30 p. m. terror to the hearts of those who wit- drenched the piles before they knew Ogden nessed the scene. they were made up of human corpses. Balt Lake ..11:55 a. m... 6:55 p. m. 4:45 p. m. A restaurant next door was at once Through the tiers of dead and dying Pocatello thrown open for temporary use as a in the building all about men and For tickets to and from all polati hospital. The long tables offered ad- women searched with frenzied faces. aout-heast sod west, call on north, mirable means of service, and upon N('W and again a searcher would find W. W. WOODSIDE, moanAgent, Logan. them the bleeding, burned, and one. for whom he looked. One cculd turn were laid. face but from such scenes. the ing injured j ! U. W. BARRETT t I ! I l , ! awe-stricke- TIME n ... .... , TABLE |