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Show FHL ASSOCUTED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC 11 IKE NEWS SERVICE. All NO, I. VOL, L OGDEN CITY. UTAH. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1.1 904, III. THE PRICE FIVE CENTS, HJ A FEW 3 - i 't Claim city There Were 508 Identified Bodies at 2:30 ii i i , Saturday is GffiriiHy Oesigmted Bnaness HI k el Suspended Arc light Chid go. Jm. Day -- Mourning ii Syirks Ena ttqii nl ii Started the foe. At 2:30 o'clock thin in make all sorts of noise. I went along the balcony about ten feet to a bm there were partition and smashed it with glass tbe still uorae fifty bodies which bad not point of my umbrella. I went down tbe been recognised. atalrs. When I was about half way 1. morning 308 person rf had fied among the dead and identi- down 1 beard the roar of the crowd as it came after me. and 1 hurried with Chicago, Doe. 31. At midnight 471 dead luid been identified, tbo injuries of 171 persons had received attention and 337 were still reported missing. As only about 80 bodies are still unidentified, many of the men. women and children who were reported to the police as missing last night and this morning, have doubt-lew- s recovered 1mm tneir fright and returned to their homes. ail the speed I bad. They overtook me, however, knocked me down, and but for tbe fact that I was close to the door. 1 think my cham-- of life would have been almost nothing As it was, I think 1 must have walked tbe last ten feet of my passage to the exit on the bodies of those who had falle en." The best evidence at present obtainable is that the fire was started by 31. Dee. time For the first Chicago. from aq arc light striking the sim-Chicago haa possessed bells to sparks of the but this has edge peel. whistles to shriek and horns to not been proved. There are so many blow, the old year was allowed silently statements aa to the cause at present to take Ita plate In history and tbs so widely that it is new year permitted to come with no and they differ impossible to ascertain the exact truth evidence of Joy at its birth. of the matter. All mourned for the six e drop-curtai- Chicago A the Iroquois theater waa as hundred persona who died yesterday in aafe IthougH aa any theater In Chicago, it bethe fire, panic and auffotation at the came evident today that tbe city buildIroquois theatre. not strictly endepartment ing In an official proclamation issued forced one or two bad sections of tbe buildthis afternoon. Mayor Harrison sugordinances. gested that the usual new year .ere ingWili am Chits n, a Inspecor, iciebrtafnn. hr. omitted. Thr idea found was In the theater tyijlding only a few momenta a ready response in the hearts of the before the catastrophe and went away Iteople, and the Mayor's words seemed that everything waa in good saying deto ony give utterance to universal condition. He retorted this fact this sire. to Deputy Commissioner morning The calamity of tbe Iroquois theater The commissioner, Stanhope. has cast Chicago into gloom. Ordinar- in company with deputy Langhlln, Dalton and ily. on New Year's eve, the at reels are Tense, went to the theater to make an filled with merry-makebut tonight inspection. On hls return to the City the only throngs were those around Hall, he said: fashionable the morgues. Ordinarily theater and its management "The light-heartrestaurants are filled with were strictly within the law. I shall revellers, who toast the year that not go Into details until I have comltaaaes and hall the year that comes. pleted my report Tonight these places were deserted, orSection 185 of tbe local while in some doors were lacked gnd dinance provides that In building of buildings drawn. curtains class to which the iroquots beFor the second time Chicago baa the there shall be a system of autolonged been stricken to the heart Not only matic sprinklers. were no There hare many of her sons and daughters sprinklers In the theater and Mr. Stanmet death In a variety of horrible when this was called to hls atand torturing forma, but the blow haa hope said: fallen almost aa heavily on strangers tention, 'There was no sprinkler system in within her gates. There Is hardly a the theater, but tbe provision about village or town within n radius of 100 the Iron doors made It unnecessary for miles of Chicago whose people are not the theater to have them. directly or Indirectly Interested In the Section IS provides that theater be piles of dead or Injured which fill the provided with fire alarm connected hospitals, or In the fate of those who with the city fire alarm system. Mr. are missing, probably dead, likely Stanhope Mid: The Iroquois has fire burned or trampled beyond recogniI did not bm the confection. tion. Cities far distant In America alarm la my Information. tbst box but corns are mourners and sympathy has City Electrician Hyland said: "The from across tbe seas. ad no fire alarm connection Iroquois Tbe list of dead continues, as It was alarm eyetem. No applithe city with given last night, in tbe neighborhood on file for any such connecof 600. A widely accepted estimate is cation la that there are persons in hospitals tion. The alarm of fire was turned In from who will probably die. It Is believed, box nore than half a block from a however, that tbe total number of dead the theater. will not exceed 600. Including tbe The law provide that there ehall be a dead, missing and Injured, the total shaft at the rear end of the ventilating numlier of casualties is approximately to conduct flames and smoke 1000. There were about 2500 spectators stage auditorium in Just such and actors in tbe theater at tbs time away from the as arose yesterday. The emergencies followfire. In the excitement of the Iroquois poeetsed no such ventilating ing the calamity many persons were shaft. reported missing who have since reTwelve aldermen today Inspected the turned home. No report, of these retheater and returned to the City Hall turns had been made to the police and and called on the building department. their names still swell the list of the asked to see the plans for the They dead names of the When the missing. and Mr. Stanhope produced theater been who are still unidentified have them. subtracted fram the list of tbe missing. "How about sprinkler? demanded It is probable that' the extent of the Jones. Alderman calamity will be fully revealed.. "The way the theater Is built they There was discussion today among can he left out, Mr. Stanhope refiremen, employes of the theater and plied. And anyhow, the flames spread architects as to the cause of the firs. so rapidly, that no sprinkler system Accounts differ today aa widely as they have availed anything would varied last night The theatrical peoJones then remarked that Alderman' ple are a unit In declaring that the the ordinance requires all exits to be fire started with an explosion and in this they are flatly contradict- marked. will be looked Into, Mr. Stan"That In ed scores of people by Remember, however, that the audience, who declare that they hope said. were out and that many saw the fire creeping along the edge the lights were killed in their . people of the beof the curtain for several minutes fore the explosion took place. A num- ftGfttS.0 Pointing to the diagram of the theaber of people left, their seats aftef an Alderman said: Here Is a Mring the blase, and were on their ter, on the south side of the y way to the street when overtaken by passage-wawhich looks as though it the frightened rush of those they had first balcony s led to a stairway. But in.thedifb-tiealeft behind them. scrambled through sad people Miss Anns Woodward, who in were ThjT esught like rs 1 a trip. ..confuthe second balcony, today- said: not get either way. The could "I plainly saw tbs fire. I sin a large sion of exits wax such that no on woman, weighing close to 180 pounds, could And hia way In the . dark. If and 1 made up my mind that If there things are regarded aa exlts.i was to be a panic It would he wise those know whit constitutes an exit not do for me to be in the street. I left would lie of any use. that my seat in the balcony, went, down Mr. Stanhope told the aldermen tbe stairs to the first balcony and that he had made an inspection of the from there started to pass out through and that It waa good., dethe very door in which so many, peo- building You cannot convince me, ple were killed a few minutes later. clared Aledrman Herman. If you talk The door was closed and a man stand- for a hundred years, that people could ing on the outside refused to open It get out of that place. I do tot care for me. Whether he was an employe what call the exits, they did net of the house 1 do not kpbw, but he work; they there was not enough of them had evidently demanded jhat hp one open, and the people could not get should leave ilie theater and in so do- out. These plana slow aialea at the ing waited a panic. I wan leaving end of the first floor, but we were over run bang up quietly up to ibis lime, but when he inere and saw the refused w, allow me to ai out peace- i luinvt the railing leaving no aisle ably, 1 determined to get out if I bad j at all. Now what I want to know is. , . n, rs ed - nt ilu.-'- on Saturday. Jan- Mormonism Not Submit to Evasion on the Part of Russia. Arc Bryond Description. Japan Will a-- This Morning. MANY PERISHED IN A BLIND PASSAGEWAY would he uary 2nd. on ar ;nr of the calamity el the IroquolaMli-aie- r. lie made the i businchs that hottses request throughout Chlra i.i also close ou that day. making it a b of general mounting. On every train .hith arrived in Chicago today came rclarivis nf pontons who are thought .to have been killed or injured in the .fit - The lobbies of hiuei. sere scenes of the down-tow- n tnauy happy meet lug s well as of anxious inquiries ou ihe part of fathdistant relaers, mothers and tives of persons if whum no trace could lie found. Man.1' of these people returned to the h riels laic in the evening after .either a fruit less search or haiml and disfigafter finding, in ured body lying in a morgue, all that la'ixe or friend for remained of the whom they had searchra. F. A. Freer, t master of Galesburg. Ills, arrived today in response to a telegram say in; ihat his wife and daughttr were stru ng the missing. Mrs. Freer and Mies Freer nunc to Chicago Wednesday expressly to attend Ihe play at the Iroquois theater. Since (heir arri'.al in ('hies go Mr. Freer has had no; news of them. Today Mr. Freer n ade inquiries of the IHilice and Bjient t ours examining bodies In morgue. Many of the Imre a resemblance to his wife and daughter and mre were clothed In dresses similar to those fur which he was looking. Inn. after Investigating every clew and every Isuly in every morgue, he returned to a hotel tonight heart broken and In despair of finding his fandly. Mrs. B. I Stoddard, of Minonk. HI., a hotel in a semilay all morning conscious condition, grieving over the loss of her daughter and son. Airs. Htoddarri purchased tickets fur herself, daughter and son dor the matinee but ci Conditions did these people in building this theater live up to the plans they to the city building department? Hero there scented ' to be nmplo exits on paper, but a numlier of friends of aiinc got badly scorched Just tho same." "On thn first floor they gut out, aid Mr. Stanhope. "My friends were on the first flour hut they received burns on their barks Just tbe same, said Alderman Herman. Alderman Friestedt declared that In the second balcony there wan not sufficient room when the seats were duwn to allow any tine to walk between them. Alderman Scully and Alderman Ctwery took from the floor of the stage bits of curtain, none of which was larger than tha palm of a hand to the store of an asliesios company. The hits worn shown to lio as bestow, although the examiner pronounced It of a low grade. 'They wanted a cheap curtain aud they pit it, an incautious clerk remarked. He waa Instantly hushed up by some of the members of the company who added that they did not wish to discuss the matter, inasmuch as they had bid on supplying the curtain to that theater and their bid had been rejected for a lower sub-milte- OPPOSITION TO REED SMOOT Degradation of Women and Demoralization of Children Charged and Lawyer Hired to Wago a Campaign. Dee. Philadelphia, 31. tional I'nion of Women's The Na- organisations. Mr. Fredcrio Hoffs, of Philadelphia, chairman, today issued a circular announcing tho formation of the preliminary organisation To protect the country agaimit the treasonable and polygamous teachings and practices of Mormonism and to uf marmaintain Chrltdiau ideal riage." The circular declares that the moral standard nf the nation will he what Ihe women of the nation demand, and thin la a (Tit leal time in our national life and that the formation of the National Vniou of Women's organizations ia Ihe result nf the final women In Utah, plea of who liegged tin. help of Eastern women In combatting a situation which ha ltecune .Intolerable. Tho degradation of womanhood and it the demoralization of rhildbond. said, under tho conditions of are beyond words to describe. The Union charges the president and aiawtles of the Mormon hierarchy with the open praise of the solemn one. polygamy.notwlthstanding vow made to the tiovernment when front the action of a committee of A Utah waa admitted to statehood. prominent architects of Chicago tolawyer has been retained by the' woday may result a recommendation to Mayor Harrison to close every later became ludiMimsed and did not men to cooperate with the eounael theater in Chicago until the exits and attend tho imrfortnance. Her son and retained by the Ministerial Alliance the construction have been examined. daughter went and both were' burned and tbe Citizen's Committee of Halt to death. Mrs. Stoddard returned to Lake City In a campaign against. This Idea was suggested to Presiher homo thin afternoon taking with United Statea Senator Smoot dent Beaumont of the Chicago Architect's Association today by A. Y. her the bodied of her children. Mor-monis- 1 LITTLE MEN BROUN Preparedness tl Japan's lo frira-Pniss- uf Tor n Toklo, Jan. I The situation Is growing extremely critical and it ia believed that, the chances for war are greater than ever before. Peace hinges on the character of Russia's , pale-fac- long-distan- s seats only 1.073. Orders were issued lonicht hy Chief O'Neil to find member of the company anil other theater employes who were witness of the fire. This order will mean, the police say. that more than twenty amwts will be made tomorrow, chiefly among tho dancers and members of tho chorus who were crowded in the wings when the fire was discovered. According to Coroner Treager. a large plaard had been placed In the hotel where a large number of the actors are xay-in- g. ordering that all membera of the company tic ready to leave Chicago on short notice. Believing that this was a move to keep witnesses from testifying to.'fore a coroner's Jury, the arrests were decided iiw. : cn ee - i Door a of Coroner Jury Find Iron Locked and They Want Number of Queotlono Answered. Chicago, Dec. 81. Coroner merles buying ing stores coal In Japan has increased the war nation. Inspirit of the Japanese fluential newspapers are urging the at the Iroquois theater In which 600 persona were killed, to examine the theater. Tbe Jury bad spent the nay in visit fng morgues to see tbe corpses. On arriving at tbe theater tbe Jury first went to tbe stage and Deputy Coroner Buckley pointed out th spot where the fire started. The seats in the first tea rows on the first floor were burned, but back of that the orchestra chairs were In good condition. In one comer of the stage waa a pile of brass spears and armor used la the All production of "Mr. Bluebeard." that waa vlslblo of the 180 piece of scenery lined in the extravaganxa was a small pile of ashes where the scenery had dropiied and burned on the stage. The steel frame of tbe arc light, one of which la said to have caused the calaKtrophe, were piled in confusion near the front of the stage. The Jury asked Coroner Traeger regarding the aslieato rurtaln that caught when an attempt was made to lower it. The member of tbe Jury while engaged in Inspecting the slagn frequently remarked that the protection against tbe fire seemed to them to have been inadequate. Tbe Jurymen then climbed the stall say leading to tbe Aral Here the plush covering of the scats waa found to he burqed on every seat. An inspection was made of the exita leading to the fire escape at the These north end of tho building. doors are much too email, they should have been three times as large, said Iwl-can- Juror Finn. y. The Iron doors were closed and locked and It waa then seen that the inner door were so close to the steel shutter that they could not he opened when the shutters were fastened. Tbi high for a exit, la not man to walk through without stooping. and when the Jurors learned this fact by personal experience there waa much comment among them. The Jurymen the ascended to the top gallery, of life ocARREST OF THEATER EMPLOYES where the gresteet loss curred Coroner Traeger pointed to i the balcony rail, which was bent In Chicago Chief of relic Orders Seven rcveral Reta'oed. plictt. and weld that a number Perseno of spectator! had Jumped through thee epenlnr tbe lower floor An Chicago, Dec 31 Seven empltye of the Iroquois theater were arrested inspection wit then made cf the exit and the tonight on orders issued by Chief of leading to the fire escapes Police O'Neil. The charge against Juror were told that the bodies of tho them ir that of being accessory to dead were piled three feet high In the police manslaughter. They will be held pend- front of these doors whenthose door ing the verdict of the coroner's Jury. reached the theater. "If The employes are: William Carle-- were locked somebody was criminally "The tonu, stage manager; Edward Cum- negligent, said Juror Finn. Jumings, stage carpenter; Frank J. An- exit are too small, anyway, said drew. R. M. Cummings. E. Engle, ror Meyer, aa he measured the door Thomas McQueen and 8. J. Mason 1. leading to the fire escape. At tbe The last five are stage hands and conclusion of the Inspection of the scene shifters. theater It was decided to continue by the Inquest until next Thursday. , After being taken Into custody the police four of 'the jnHt told Chief A few of the quest ions to whl'-- the O'Neil that they hail been requested Jury will endeavor to obtain satlsfae-tin- y answers at Hie inquest are: by people connected with the theater Were the steel doors leading to the fire escapes on tbe first aud second (Continued on page 2.) anflb-lentl- - a government to promptly dtopatrh and fleet to guard the Corcan coast roln-1channel. Tha patrol tha toresn era of war and navy, their general commanders are advisory staffs andFull plana for tha conferring dally. and the navy have of army campaign lieen prepared and the nrheme of land and water transportation completed. Tho thoroughneaa of Japans bandlln st In opening the doors In front Tha management of the theater. I believe, assert that it waa the action of. the audience that made the. draft which wa the primary rausq of the disaster. I .may be wrong, but from tba evidence now at hand It. will be shown that It was the action of tbe stage hands or members of the company instead of anything done by the audience in ita attempts to escape. CAUSE OF THOSE WHO ESCAPED '. THE t t IE Trager tonight took a jury of six business men, Impanelled to investigate the fire Territory. - n ia response. If tho Russian reply nnsattsfartory. it la almost certainIf that Japan will fight immediately. llussia desires peace, her position will bo difficult to maintain fur tho Japanese are distrustful of Inher promdelayed ises. If Russia's response Japan for a week. It la expected that ' will demand au Immediate answer. is Russia The announcement that in Corea, buyseeking navalIn stations A and ble to empty the 'house? Member foil ol Cerium Prior 1 preparation pronounced superior to that of Germany, prior to tha France-Prusslawar. It Is anticipated that Corea will he the scene nf the early operations. The invasion of Chinese territory, other than by Corea and across tha Y'alu river. It ia thought, will depend on the nature and extent of tbe Chinese efforts to expel the Russians from. Manchuria. Hascho will he the principal base of the navy and 'the main point for the embarkation of troops. It haa not yet been disclosed what place will bn the principal army base nor where the Emperor and bla war councillor will go to direct operations. Ptris, Jan. 1. The Che Foo correspondent of the Faria edition nf tha New York Herald says that Colonel Arteniff, who la In close touch with Admiral Adeliff, Russian viceroy In the Far West, declares that tha ait list Ion is most critical. The Japanese, he says, apparently want war. Disturbances in Manchuria are due, he says, to the almost open support the Chinese tiovernment la giving . tba s stretched In long lines on the floor and a constant succession of men and tearful women passed slowly between and bodies. lifting tho coverings from tbo charred and bruised faces and searching the clothing of the dead for something by which their lost ones could be recognized. In many Instances women hinted when lifting the sheet from some face In which they recognised the features of a dead rhlld. While the crowds of anxious seeker for news beseiged the different morgues, the telegraph and were almost telephone ofTb-eswamped with the flood of Inquiring messages. Messenger boys for tho telegraph compaies were swamped with messages all day. and tonight the terrific rush of business was still on. Private wires of stock exchange and board of trade houses were likewise loaded down with inquiries and answers. Chicagos telephone service bas never ltefore been put to such a test as until 4 from 4 o'clock yesterday o'clock this afternoon. There have been numerous reports, unaiithcnticated, however, that tbe aisles and passageways in tho rear of the theater were blocked by people who occupied room. I do not credit tuo statement.' said William Davis, proprietor of the Iroquois, ''aNcrllHjd to one of the uniters. that as many as 5J0 persons were standing in the renr of the seats." After the fire, however, several of the ushers 'iMlvred that at least I.tssi iernons were in the theater, which FOR CONFLICT ill is io Readiness for. Corein on Litidiiij to Superior Army balconies locked when the .fire broke out? If they were locked, were they opened promptly b? the attendant? THE VIEW SCENES the Why waa it Imposlbl to lowermanPolicemen dead for a. Injured. ing (lid the curtain? Why asbestos where the were detailed a(' places agement permit the use of are lights la dead and injured bad been carried, the flies with no device, io prevent woto restrain the anxious men and carbon sparks from Igniting the bordmen who pressed In at the doorways and the curtain; and inquired for loti friends and rela- Where 600 Persons Met Death ers of the scenery Why did the ushers, as alleged,, abut tives. all the doors- and urge the audience in a Fire Trap. In all the undertaking rooms bodies to remain seated after the fire broke were placed, as far as possible, ou out. Instead of doing everything possirots, and when these were exhausted rr-.vd- PREPARED THOROUGHLY From early iu the utornlng until beseiged the unlate s' night dertaking room: and hospitals look- Pled mo re, an architect who lost some relatives In the fire. President Beau- mont refused personally to make the recommendation to Merer HurVou, but called an Informal meeting 'of the association at which it was decided that a larger gathering of tba members would be held .tomorrow to take action. Mayor Harrison said tonight: "I ace no more reason for rinsing the theaters than for stopping all railroad trains after a wreck. There fa no necessity of being hysterical about It, although this horrible disaster ban taken place in probably the safest theater in Chicago." The Mayor tonight sent the following letter to all the theatrical proprietors in Chicago: November 2nd. this year, I transmitted to the city council a report on the theaters of Chicago, calling tbe attention of the council to the failure of all the theaters to comply fully with the terms of the bnlldlng ordinances relative to places of amusement. The council aent the communication to the committee on judiciary for consideration and, pending a report from that committee, directed the commissioner of buildings to suspend enforcement of file ordinance. , The city- - ordinance, among other things, requires each theater to employ a fireman, to be approved by the chief of the fire dcimrtment to look after the fire protection of the house. I am advised by the chief that several theaters have refused to comply with this provision of the ordinance. In view of the terrible disaster at the Iroquois theater, and pending action of tbe city council, I have directed the chief of tho lire department to assign one regular member of tbe department to each theater nut complying with the ordinance relating to the employment of a tl reman. The firemen now employed by tbo thcatern should lie assigned to the front nf thn house, while the fireman assigned by the chief should be assigned to thn stage. I have further directed the chief. In rases where Ihe ordinance has not been obeyed, to assign two regular firemen to tho duty of protecting the public against fire. The wages of these firemen will be billed direct to the theaters to which they are assigned and the service will be continued until the council has flu ally acted on the ordinance. After dispatching this letter tbe Mayor said: "If any of the theatrical managers refuse to pay the wages of these men, as several of them have refused In the past, I will close the doors of the theaters and keep them closed until they agree to act as they should. All during the day telegrams of sympathy .to tbe people of Chicago and offers of aid poured iu .by telegraph on the Mayor. .He annouro-etonight : T have, received many offers of aid It may be. 'tha before we get through this trouble a fewr' perrons will be found to betn need., but Cbicigo will be able te give that aid herseif. Most of those killed ahd Injured, now identifbe. abundantly cared for. ied;' Among the tefograms of condolence received from abroad by the Mayor were the following:. ' Berlin Mayor Harrison: Wish to express deepest sympathy uti account of the terrible catastrophe at the Iro-- i quota theater. Please let me know of missing end If some of my acquain-tenaamong them. What a terrible beginning of the new year many good citizens of Chicago will have. (Signed I Prince Henry of Prussia." In addition to the proclamation Issued during the afternoon. sitggwlinij that the usual New Years festivities be abandoned. Mayor Harlron tonight J announced that all departments of the n X Opening of Stage Doors Fanned the Fatal Flamei. Sant the Tongues of Fire Under the Curtain and In to the Audienc in the Iroquois Theater. : .7 : Coroner . Tfa-gc- ar and hia assistants did all' ' Iu tbidr power to supply' Infolmatkm concerning the dead and wounded, hut five times the number of available men in the coroner's office could not have accomplished the task. Crowds besieged the coroner's uffico all day and begged that arrangements might bo made so that' they ' could view tho bodies which lay In tho morgues. Thu applicants were promptly furnished. with permits whlrh they showed to the police and which admitted them to .ny hospital or Chicago, Dec. 81. - in-hi- a - . morgue. Mix bushel baskets of valuables and trinkets of various description. wore gathered in the theater by policemen and firemen and turned over to the coroner. Among these were frilly a dozen watches and In every case the watch had stopped, at ' 3: 50 o'clock. Tho fire started about 3:15 o'rlock. Coroner Treager tonight concluded Inquiry Into the cause of the tire. Hls first witness was Wm. an informal C. Hallers, a fireman employed at tbe Sailers did not Iroquois theater. know just how the fire began, but said he saw it shortly after it startl'd, lie threw-- extinguishers ou the blaze,' but without effect.- He tried to pull down the drop curtain or to tear loom that portion of it which was blazing, but without success. The lire then spread wn.b such rapidity that he was uualde to do more. Other witnesses - were, examined after those had been heard. ssistant Pfats Attorney' A. A. w.-and, A- H-- r, present. Mid: who "It seems bettor-curtaiagreed that the dropped rut thit. it wen? ten or fifeen feet ef only to the stage floor. The people cn the stage opened the door leading from the stage Into tbe street on the west w-a- tha theater and this created a strong draft The draft Mew the curtain out toward the audience.. This held the curtain ao tightly that all aide of attempts to lower it further were fruitless. Attempts were made hy numerous persons to pull the curtain -- Relate Terrible Experiences In the Sea of Firs. Dec. 31. Following are the Chicago, experiences of several persona who escaped from lroquoistbeater fire: James H. Strong went to tbe theater with hia wife, hia mother and hia niece, Mlaa Tina Strong. When the panic began Mr. Strong led the two women and the girl toward an exit la the center of the balcony, toward which he saw a few people hastening. On arriving at the dour he found It locked. I Jumped up, be said, "caught the edge of tne transom in my finger, drew myself up and smashed the window in the tranaome. 1 had found it impoBnlble to open the door and though possibly I might open It from the out- side. I dropped to the floor on ' the outside, ami to my horror found that the door was locked with a padlock and has). Just then a- carpenter with some tools hand raifla running up and I told him to help me open the door. We worked and pulled and tugged at tbfi padlock like crazy men but we could make no Impression on It. ' I then told tho other man to give me a boost so that 1 could reach the t ran ho me and pass people out to him. He helped me up and I got the upper portion of njjr body through the transom and looked for my family. They were standing Just beneath me but just at. that moment the flames swept through the balcony and I don't believe that any of them who were In there then escaped. 1 inhaled flames, lost my grip and fell hark into the hallway outside. I think that a great many more could have been saved If that door haq not been padlocked. Mr. Strong. Jr. the wife of Air. Strong, 1b among the Identified dead. liiH mother and niece are among the missing. He himself 1b In a critical . condition and may die. , Miss Wilma Hensey; of the Auditorium Hotel, with MIbs Rose Mocfiry of Chicago, and Miss Margaret of Raton. N. M were among the spectators on the main floor. They became separated when they tried toleave- - th theater and in making a turn In the aisle at the rad of the row of seats In which they had been sitting, Miss Denary. in trying to avoid stepping on a woman who bad lieen thrown to the floor, was herself tripped and was severely trampled op before she regained hr foci. Several persons were tbrown on top of her and two men walked over hr. on stepping on her head and the other on her right hsnd. She regained her feet finally and reached the lobby where ehe fsfned and wa car rted to the street by fireman. Hits Moody and Miss Apgar also escaped, both of tbem severely bruised and with their clothing torn to shreds. ; i f DEMONETIZATION ' ,r OF PESO. r ere- -success. In but without hand, Philippine Change Currency hy From all the Information we have Takes Place Today. been able to gather thus far, it seems Manila, Dec: 31. The Old Mexican to me aa though the fault. In creating will be demonetized tomorthe draft which threw the audience currency Spantok-PbilipplInto a panic by forcing the flames out row and peso, will uver their heads, was due far more then be legal tender until July I next to ih action of tin theatrical peo- at the regular government rate. IJeut. Mellon of the Philippine ple in opening tho door at the rear uf the theater than to the audience has committed suicide. down ne ry |