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Show SNOW RETARDS FUNERALS IN GUY OF CHICAGO Many Families Unable to Bury Loved Ones. MEN DIG GRAVES IN NIGHT Fourteen Burials in Progress at One Tlmo at Rose Hill. Fraternal Order Holds Services Over Five Members of Their Organization Organ-ization at Same Time. Chicago. Jan. 3. Today was a day of funerals in. Chicago, and yet many were unable to bury their dead. The unprecedented unpre-cedented demand for . hearses and carriages car-riages would have been enough In Itself It-self to task to the very utmost the resources re-sources of the undertaker, but the heavy snow that has fallen during the last two days has increased their dif-llcultles dif-llcultles enormously. CEMETERIES MILES OUT. All of the cemeteries In Chicago are miles from the business center and residence res-idence districts and with good weather and the streets in passable conditions It is a matter of several hours to reach any of them. Today, when every hearse was In demand, de-mand, it required about twice as long to reach a cemetery as under normal conditions. Arrangements were made by the undertakers to have as many funerals cs possible held in the early part of the day, in order to allow, if possible, the use.pf the hearse for a second sec-ond funeral in the afternoon. HAD TO DEFER BURIAL. In many Instances families who waited for tho return of the hearse were disappointed and were compelled to defer the burial of their loved ones. It Is expected that by tomorrow the streets will be In such a condition as to permit of the passage of funerals in almoel tbe ordinary time. GRAVE-DIGGERS WORK AT NIGHT. The cemeteries were compelled to keep men at work all through the night digging graves, and In some of the larger cemeteries they barely managed man-aged to make them with sufficient speed. At one time todny fourteen burials bu-rials were in progress in Rose Hill ccm-etory, ccm-etory, all of them victims of Wednesday's Wednes-day's lire. ' SERVICES AT UNDERTAKERS'. In the rooms of one undertaker a fraternal, fra-ternal, organization held services over live members of their order at the same time. The funeral services over the remains of Ella and Edith Frcck-elton, Frcck-elton, sisters, was held in Boulevard hall. Fully 2000 people were in attendance attend-ance and 500 more stood outside in the biting wind, until the funeral had departed de-parted for the cemetery. QUADRUPLE FUNERAL. In the honiP of the millionaire manufacturer, man-ufacturer, Ludwlg Wolff, was held the quadruple funeral of his daughter. Mrs. William II Garn, and hor three-children. A crowd of more than one thousand thou-sand people surrounded tho house, and the police were compelled to open a passageway for the pall-boarcrs. IN MORE HUMBLE MANNER, The funeral conducted lu a humbler I manner wns held a few squares from the j Wolff residence at the rarae time. It I (Continued on Pago 10.) I mm IMGHIGAG0 (Continued from Page 10 was that of Mrs. Mary W. Hoist' and her three children, all of whom died in the ill-fated second balcony. Mrs. Hoist v as a sister of ex-Chifcf of Police Bade-:iorh, Bade-:iorh, and it v as he who identified the bodies of the mother and her three children. chil-dren. Fully as many people were around the small frame church in which this funeral gathered as outside the pretentious preten-tious Wolff mansion, rmd here, too, the police were compelled to open a paes- agewny for the caskets as they Were borne to the hearses. j SORROWFUL SABBATH. DAY. 11 These are but instances of What hap- 'I pened throughout the length and breadth h of Chicago today Multiply the funerals :j mentioned by twenty and a better idea V. can be had of this first Sabboth day In the new year. 1' 1 H; DEATH "ROLL INCREASED.. Bijl Victims of Iroquois Holocaust Now H Number 588. V Chicago., Jan. 3. The list of dead was H Increased lo 5SS today by the death of Hh Leroy Rainbolt, a hoy of 4 years, who Hl "s severely lTurned. Of the ten bodies H at the county morgue four were iden- H tlfied today. They were: Hr - Mrs. Mary A. Fair. H Sadie Ludwlg. H DorothjvLemager, 13 years. H Emma Reynolds, 7 years. ) NUMBER OF INJURED. H The injured of whom there Is any rec- H ord now number 103, although the num ber of those who were hurt slightly would swell1 tills number greatly. Numbers Num-bers of people went to their homes after the lire without reporting themselves to the police as injured. FEW VISIT MORGUE. "Outside of the numerous funals that were held today it was the first day of rest the city has known since last Wednesday nfternomt. Less than twenty twen-ty persons called at the office of the chief of police for permits to Visit morgues and few people were at the hospitals. SEARCH FOR SCHMIDT. John Schmidt, the stage hand who Is said to have left open the rellcctor that prevonted tho aspestos curtain from descending. de-scending. Is still sought by tho police. He Is believed to be hiding in the city, but the chief of police received an intimation inti-mation from his friends that Schmidt will be ready when he Is wanted as a witness at the Coroner's Inquest next Thursday. CORONER'S INVESTIGATION. Tomorrow morning Coroner Tracgcr and the jury impaneled to sit at the Inquest In-quest will resume Its task of collecting evidence. An exhaustive examination of the building will be made and particular attention will be paid to any violation of the building ordinances that may be found. In accordance with the request of the members of the jury nil sightseers, sight-seers, and even watchmen, will be excluded ex-cluded from the building while the examination ex-amination is in progress. Tho jury has said to the Coroner that they do not wish any person to hear the questions that they may put, as they fear publicity public-ity will interfere with the thoroughness of the Inquiry. INQUIRY TO BE THOROUGH. Because of the unlimited scope that the Coroner intends to give to the investigation, inves-tigation, it is expected the work of taking ta-king testimony will consume several. w;ecks. Contractors and all others who can give expert testimony will be summoned sum-moned and the Coroner today Issued a notice to all persons who were in the theater who made their escape that he would be glad to have them appear and give their evidence. PROVIDING FOR FUTURE. From all indications the meeting of the City Council tomorrow night will be taken up entirely with the Introduction of resolutions relating to the fire. Ordinances Ordi-nances will be presented covering every Imaginable detail of the management and equipment of a theater. Alderman Dunn will introduce an order forbidding members of the City Council to accept passes, either from railroads or places of amusement. MAYOR CALLS MEETING. Mayor Harrison said tonight: "I Intend In-tend to hold a meeting tomorrow of all the Aldermen and if po-ssiblc of all theatrical the-atrical managers also. I want to talk over with them what is best to he done. So far I have acted upon my own responsibility re-sponsibility without consulting any one. There are one or two theaters that could open tomorrow by placing firemen upon the stage, but they must do that. As far as I am personally concerned not one theater shall open Its dooro in tins city until It has complied with the last letter of the ordinances." RUMOR OF A WARRANT. The Mayor said he heard nothing of a rumor that a warrant was to be taken out for his arrest. "One can not tell." ihe said, "what a man who has lost all of his family In a fire like that of Wednesday Wednes-day will do. He could hnrdl be held responsible for his actions." |