Show NO P PRECAUTIONS S 1 TO n PREVENT T FIRE rIAL Managers of Iroquois Theater Pleaded Ignorance of Any An Being Taken NOT INSTRUCTED A it Worse Wore Condition of Affairs MJ I Than luau Had lad Been Ite n Thought I Possible Chicago Jon 6 By their own evi evidence 0 dence given today before Mom Monroe c no Ful Pul Fulkerson kerson kerso who Is conducting tho the fire tire de do department Investigation Into the tho Iro Ira quola theater horror the proprietors of ot the tho theater showed that a vore vor e condition of affairs existed than hal hail heretofore been beell thought possible Will J 3 Davis harry Horr J Powers lowers and Thomas J Noonan active managers of at the thu Iroquois theater were examined by b Mr Ir J today All MI 11 of them pleaded Ignorance of at tiny precautions taken to prevent loss losi of life by 11 firo at nt their theater They admitted to instruct III lu fighting lire amid Ind failure even con to provide suItable tr use UBO against the tho lame flames Their corroborated liy ity the testimony of twenty of ofha tho ha theater none of nf whom had hall over been told what to do In ens case a of HM Noonan No 0 who Is tile the working manager of the tho theater under direction of DC und J today that eleven of tho lie theater exits were locked and bolted Two of those exits leading to tolie tho lie front of tho the theater on eu tho the ground floor vero locked three additional ox ex exIt Its It on the tue north side Bide of the tho ground floor were bolted boiled three exits on nn tho the 1101 th side vide of the tho theater from the tho first fir t balcony ere tro bolted and Ind three th c exIts on Oil the he north side ot of the second balcony balcon were lh JIm I h greatest loss 1081 of life lICe tram from rein the fire wu Sells In Iii the tho first second balconies where hundreds of people score sulfa suffocated through their Inability to get et out or OJ uvero trampled to death while trying to I do BO NO Had Hud three exits In III balcony been available according to Mr the lie loss of life lito must have huv hll been greatly declared that no person had been named by tho the theater manage management ment macut to superintend the operation nf ot tho the ventilators In emcee of or Urn lire nod awl In III Inconsequence consequence can the tho homes haul had been heen pet pct to the place Instead In of ot seeking a n i outlet through th tIme stage o door It was said Mid by 11 that hut M lii Dusenbery the lie th head usher Archibald Bernard chief elite olee and tho the theater thoMer engineer know how to fa operate the ventilators U wai WM wa proven by the tho evidence of or taco mOil however that two of oC them never wont upon tho stage Hinge and und that tho ho other had nover been told toM to assume of ot tho the ventilators In ease cuso of lii Ju nu declared that his hla duty ua as II usher him in lii the front of the house houlle iou c Tho ThU engineer was WM as aim nillo below the stage attending to t his engine and alit the only one ono of ot tho tue three knowing how to operate tho the ventilators who III 1 el upon tho the stage during n Il performance that hut ho hI had hall never neer been beell told to ammo charge of them From figures obtained by J to today a aday day It became becalM evident that almost ono one In three of the tue people who attended tho the matinee lost their hair lives Jives lila tho percentage being Il a trillo trifle over oer 31 pOI per cent The Tho theater seated lOG 1800 people and In iii addi addition toil tion to these thello luul been admitted tt d after all nil the tho seats were wore Kohl making a n total ot 1 1841 1542 people In iii llio he theater boater of ot who lio fin wore vere killed |