Show I iro Iroquois s Theater Horror Without a Parallel 11 a THE TUE VICTIMS NUMBER HUNDREDS I Already Nearly Ix Hundred Have Been Taken from the Building Many Dl Died d from Were Burned to Death and Many Had the Life Trampled Out of Them as They Were Trying to Make Their Way to Safety Dec 31 At 1 afternoon the of dead In re It fit Uie theater Is Ia 61 Of the tho p known to tobay Injured probably on been bay haV e cannot live The miMing Is believed it I nt It but It la III expected f ss e many of these wilt will be accounted large of them for n a No bodies were found Cound today jn In the ruins ot of the theater ACTS Dr By order of at Coroner the the theater theater ater charnel vas today placed under a tiGht fight pollee guard No per perr person son could enter without a written order from Chief of at ONeill who woe was that ho would bo be held re building In Inthe inthe keeping the for tor the pon exact In which It wall lett bY the tho sweep of the flumes ames Thirty the patrolmen were front of oC the building and twenty men the rear while wl within were 30 more officers the whole Interior In dUlling the and being guarded today tOllay an ud nd As s soon lIoon as 1111 detail of policemen went through the Iho burned buildinG from top tOll to botlon There Thera were fears telus that In Inthe the fit beneath ten feet teet of mud muddy dy water Inter would bo be found mora mono vIe Uma of the tho smoke bud Ills fire engines that betor had deluged today being tv to the pk co were draw forth dozen of oC of thick murk market water a from the tho b whUa l la o a doz dozen n firemen remen In hip boots made a thOrough of the tho basement for lor bodies No bodies bodle however were found In tiro tho basement ORDINANCES COMPLIED CO to the records of the eft city building deportment Which Close 1080 Closely ly Iy scanned canne the nanco wall compiled with In ry pAr pArtI tI n the tho cO 1 or of the iro fO The Inspector Edward Inn reported that no were violated It wa eon to be an structure The wan air with 37 double flue but bul wood was used and were em employed t JURY OF CITIZENS With the announcement that one ona jury fI of citizens would lI paten ten tu tb oil all the evidence regarding the fire ro end return 1 a singla verdict for nil all the Coroner Treager today prompt Iy by emp u I jury jur National Committeeman Stewart member of the firm of William II H Hoyt Hoyt II h eo Co wholesale grocers was toM told by bythe bythe the the tho death of Mr daughter Mrs l F Morton Fox and her three children would be taken tie as II a bar bareta II eta for tor the tho Investigation If IC any persons are for lor this fire said COroner Treager they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent ot of the law The Tho of the tho fire wilt will bo be thorough We will leave no stone atone In our to the CORONERS JUICY The coroners jury Is 18 n as follows tollos I L Jr B Meyer secretory secretary of the tho Kennedy Furniture Company Dr f Peter Dyrnes salesman for tor Lyon Td Walter lIngman Clingman for or the tho Tobey ey Furniture company JO Joseph A CummIngs manager of JJr Browning 1 n nil KIng Co Corl George rl W Atkins for tor Mar Marshall shall Field e I Co Cole J John iCo W Fine rne for tor A If H HJ Revell le I Co J ot the today lure 0 reach the Ceno ot of the fire The Ih police however no ert II on either ether side ot of the street near by The rhe ut lIr the building WIS waA the ns as before the fire The giant atone ston he head 1 ot of on an Iroquois Indian over the g symbol ot the toot Wr tOr the deserted structure stool forth 1 from a front unstained by byc Smoke c 0 or r water cr crA A WHITED Th tg g without tho 01 1 leoter marked It os 1 true I whiled sepulchre Upon the marble It at the tho left teft and right within I Were maert t the mean f and confusion ot of the tho grim march 0 of the Ie b of the dead Amon Among JI th the e thousands or of bits ot of l colored l glass shattered In the tho against the 10 flames lay many rol hed I hits ot of clothing and occa of charred bodies Prom From th the 0 upper r galleries the vl w today seemed lCt mC a rem reminder of n burned out vol volter rano ter Was In 1 aloon the thea i was huge ng guarded n hugo pile of and furs gathered up In the theater after f the fire Five bushel baa ke s tre and o tilled l with t the purses gloves glovest t handkerchiefs ot of the tho fleeing mob of en women Two barrels barrel II Vero cro heeled nr I l to Shoes ShOCK hold the tho overshoes and found O OF EXCITEMENT day dllY TI The I center of excitement to w ae at the thc theater hut but morgue to which the lend dead taken Alt were ere 11 at laken th gue Where wh r more more estl ere or taken than to IO ally the tho scenes wore ere worst About the tho like Ilke Iron of or If I len aid ful wore them hun n huge lIu or of the hundreds weeping wee ln women and children The Tho numerous P police stationed there thero could extra not tra hel begin to handle III the croll crowds and and were hurried to 10 the tho be beMm leg 1 morgue On II n a scale the tho same Mm the fearful siege elle Was In progress nt at other er morgues morgue FOUND JUS DEAD DEADE ber E l Frady president ot of the Plinio company today utter litter un e c Ive dead of potty of six n nr Each theater r n ol headed b hIs wife ch on one was found nl lit at 1 a different mor gl sue Ono One Is still missing rhose den Idell were hire William AL J U H Spindler Mr lr Frady Y II Ills tor Sp 10 years old Leon rady j l 10 years old mother In law died ut at St Rt Lukes nil an hum after reaching the Mrs Rise a slater or of is 18 stilt missing A IDENTIFICATION Ono One of the most moat peculiar ot of the thu idea Iden today was tint ot of the head hend less body bOlly of BOer Alexander 8 years old Thu lads father tather Dr W D Alexander boulevard hall hal sleeplessly sought his son lion all night long and today In ht examinIng the head hend headless less lesI corpse of n a child l the physician his hili own boy hoy by 1 a watch 1 a birthday present from the tho father tather found upon the tho remains A SCENE A pitiful septic attended the cation ot of Edwards If H years old or of Iowa Iown Her lIer father W WM WM M 1 Edwards who has hIli been In Chicago all on a visit Identified the tho daughters terribly ter bUrned body from 1 a sample of the tho cloth In her skirt which ho he carried In hits his pocket TIIE of Police ONeill tOday RUp super supervised the tho work of helping friends In anti relatives recover their dead Hundreds or of persons grief and anxiety written In III belt faces thronged about Chief seeking flecking The Tho pressure grow so great that Secy Beey Markham mounting II a chair read ort oft th the descriptions to the multitudes s Fre Frequently fluently persons In the crowd recognized the descriptions read by the secretary and In n horror for tor the particular named liS as the tho words tell felt from the ha tips lips AT TUE TIIE MORGUE MOnGUE I At the tho morgue the tho inadequacy of the I means of Inspecting bodies was Willi evi evident dent Only A tell few persons It at 1 a time hero allowed to pass before the bodies bodle and plates In the tine line or of admission were n as sought and fought for tor IS as of escape were when the theater was IM burning Me Davis and Powers managers of the rho have called II a meeting It at the theater ot of nl all members at ar Ue the Beard company and II a arun run 1111 statement will Do bo after II n careful Davis end Powers emphatically deny denya n a report that there was Wall n a fire re In the three weeks ago and that the asbestos curtain then r to work worle on account of being controlled hy by ropes instead t ot of wires They rhey also state that the tho curtain was Wall controlled by Jho stron strongest est Iroll that It was possible to tou u lisp r The Tho facts acts are a to them that tile tide swayed the moment the 10 or 12 exits were thrown open owing tb lb the tho rash of air |