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Show The Salt Lake Telegram. 2 MES SWEEP RAPIDLY OVER 1 300 PERSONS; HOUSE IS ROARING FURNACE Asbestos Curtain Fails to Work and Theater Is iff Harrowine Scenes As the Work Prn-- I 0 : ftf-sr.n- r vrf CHICAGO,,, Dec. 31. The fire-In- . C AHSO-LUTLL- .;.1S76 1S? Galveston 2 : 1" . 000000 tle t : ) 0 '.m p.-.fm- . ATHETIC SCENES WHILE RESCUE WORK GOES ON r passing the theater. Without fear or hesitation he made his way through the darkness, that was intensified by the volume of smoke that filled the auditorium, to the .top gallery and assisted in carrying out the victims. "God forbid that I ever again see such a heartrending sight," said tha bishop last night. "1 have been in wars and on the bloody field of battle, but in all my experience I have never seen anything half so gruesome as the sight that met my. eyes when, with the aid of a tiny lantern, I was finally able to penetrate the inky darkness of that balcony. "There was a pile of bleeding bodies ten feet high, with blackened face3 and remnants of charred clothing clinging to them. Some were alive and twisting and moaning in their agony. Others, and, oh, by far the greater number, were dead. I assisted in carrying many of the injured down and ministered to them the best I could.'" Frantic Mothers in Crush. It .vas the presence of the children,, hundreds of whom were in the audience, and the efforts of their frantic mothers, impelled by their first thought to seeK the safety of their young, that caused much of the pandemonium. Alexander H. Tievell, who had sent hl3 little daughter Margaret with a little friend in charge of a maid o see the performance, five minutes after the fire started heard of it in his more, and hastily calling a carriage drove madly to the burning building. By the greatest good fortune one of the first persons he encountered was the hysterical jfiald. who informed him that the two children had been saved without Injury Mr. Ilevell then hastened to the theater ami participated in the rescue. Too Horrible to Describe. "I worked in the upper balconies." Fire Spread Rapidly. The fire spread rapidly toward the front of the stage, causing the members ol tN? chorus who were then engaged in the performance to flee to the wings with screams of terror. The fire in itself up to this time was not serious and possibly could have been n- . - hacked had not the asbestos curtain failed to work.' As soon as the fire was discovered Eddie JFoy, the chief come-- " ilian ."f the company, shouted to lower the curtain, and this was immediately lone. It descended about half way and . then stuck. i.-- . . . Roasted Where They Sat. The fire thus was given practically a flue through 'which a strong draft was setting, aided by the doors, which had been thrown open in the front of the theater. With i rear and a bound the Harues shot through the opening over thehe!uls of the people on the first floor, and' reaching clear up to those in the first balcony, caught them and burned them to death where ey sat. Immediately following this rush of flames there came an explosion, presumed to be the gas reservoir, which lifted the entire roof of the theater from its walls, shattering the great skylight into fragments. Rush for the Doors. As soon as the flames first appeared beyond the curtain a man in the rear of "the hall shouted, "Fire, fire!" and the entire audience rose as one person and made for the doors. Will J. Davis, manager of the theater, srid aftr the catastrophe that If the people had remained in their seats and had not been excited by the cry of fire not n single life would have been lost. " This, however, is contradicted by the statements of the firemen, who found numbers of people sitting in their seats, their faces directed toward the stage, r.s if the performance were still going '!!. It is the opinion of the firemen that these persons had been suffocated at "nee by the flow of gas which came from behind the asbestos curtain. Thirteen. Hundred Present. As near as can be estimated about 1S00 people "were in the theater. Three hun-nre- d of these were on the first floor, the remainder being in the balconies and in tne hallways tack of them The theater is modeled after the Opera in Paris, and from the Comique rear of each balcony there are three doors leading cut to passageways toward the front' of the theater. Two of these doorways are at the end of the balcony and one being in the center. The audience in its rush for the outer air seems to have chosen, for the greater part, to flee to the left entrance and to attempt to make its way down the east-of ern stairway leading into the lobby the theater. Mass of Distorted Beings. burned and suf-- r .v! Outside of the people focated by ga?, it was in these two l doorways on the first and second bal-oc- life of conies the that los greatest v t w" '" turred. When the firemen entered the build- - t lng the dead were found stretchedof inthea pile reaching from the head ... stairway at leapt eight feet from the A ' 2 ,loor P'dck to a Point about five feet in the rear of the door. This mass of dead bodies in the cen-- . tor. of the doorway reached to within two feet of the top of the passageway, All of the corpses at this point were w women and children. "'" Fearful Fight for Life. The fight for .life- whkh must have ..... taken plac at thes$. two points is somei? simply beyond human thing that to adequately describe. Only a power ' ' faint idea of its horror could be derived from the aspect of the bodies as they lay. Women on top of these masses, of dead had been overtaken by death as they were crawling on thir hands and knees over the bodies of those who had died before. Others lay with arms stretched out in and the direction toward which lay life safety, holding in their hands - fragments of garments not their own. They were evidently torn from the clothing of others whom they had endeavored to under foot as pull down and trample they fought for their own lives. "1 was much afflicted with sciatica." writes Ed C. Xud. Iowaville, Sedgwick Co., Kan., "going about on crutches and suffering a deal of pain. I was induced to try Ballard's Snow Liniment, which relieved me. I used three 50c bottles. It Is the greatest liniment I used; have recommended it to a number of persons; all express themselves as being benefited by it. I now walk without crutches, able to perform a great deal of liirht labor on the farm." 2.5c, 50c, $1.00. Sold by Z. C. M. I. Drug Dept. , -- -- '" ST " . Demand More Pay. Chicago, Dec. SI. The Stationary Engineers' union has presented a demand for :m increase in wages to the managers of 125 of the big office buildings. They 2s c"nts an hour and demand ?n cents. The men threaten to strike. Always. RerafTrsber the full Name wffaxative promo 0uinino Cures a Cold in One Day, Cnpin 2 Days I on every box, 25c y7V 4 . DOWN AT AWFUL n dise-ase- -- As TREAT AND CURE W.E enr-rjin- history been so of Chicago stired a theater calamity. Hardy baa its . Athmt. ln! - Dl?-a,!'- I'fa, I(art wnd v ntuU VU- -. nl FdUN I)i"ii. of th H-c- Tr4lie, tl JVrr.Hll llyfirrta. Crdtrr tor Hie N'fk). lu-a- Worm. Hay mn l inwtiin'.n. Nrvtui nnd t.rnic(..Pi a Taj-- Dlt. A. J. HHOIIKS. e n, It!rkt. Pjn-l- I)i-ci- llh-jmti- . Ntvouh lii'rv!", , Chorea (St.- Vltu Ppinal Trouble, Hkln !":-t'"!- '). aI cjrl r . iJlt. W. FHOHUii. Ci, OR MEN PRIVATE DISEASES tamt Wt IIS who 9 fnikh tKat in tb-lShore th nloje lrtrrr-Men surtVring with l'rlv te troubbn "PAY Ot'if, Villi WlIltN ihi tr.r-- t V.ntrp.t -bear ef a fakir f r the "pny-It-afAh" pl-- - of th friut r, 1 f.iVir. ".re" i '.n ) ur I nvr Shore n;i- k p your mony In your i )i t nnl f putlesst? Dri. S.iore r Ui ll Itl !r. Drs. Shores & Ilor;Sm to Hvenlnsr. H Sundjyn nn do. Week for ihHr Ir. f t grari-tnt;; atu1 rrt rf th- Soath St. l.i. l ti m. . a. m. to 3 s - Our I Great for hri:ii !. y Annual Prc-Invcnto- - r- tv-Si- 3n t 4p-- l Piltake"Tit1. Ur,k tltf f, tyn:t'fnr r t li ir r-l!f- WIUTlt, If of th: iai. 12 , rs-- p. m ! y 1 r IJro f it cf tv" Jor.pl SS.ofc Salt Lake Citv. OrTHT.T lh-- PREE BY MAIL F-f- 56 W. Second Lyon Block, tltl;t" c." Shores, SPECIALISTS. cr.r.. oi ti l t a ts,ii J fc,r .jt-- i mos cjrm- ars t 1 r 1 r tvt sr Jn orritit iiim:'i.tatii'v t- -i ;. : ; ry Clearance Sale AT ITS INCEPTION ."1. -- 1 nj llr I.f Cye ir. L.ur.c TrouM-- , 1 r and Kblnry Di Ftorn.irb.' Ct tr i lair.t Uladder Troubl. of Womro n1 ehJ-JrI'hronic l Dec. NV- .- l". Thm.it Trout ItronrhUl n tear-blinde- CHICAGO. ... CATAnU1!-r-Afr- FULLNESS OF HORROR the poll e removed layer after layer of dead in those doorways of the fated Iroquois theatei the sight became too much even for the police and firemen, hardened as they are to such sights, to endure. The bodies were in such an Inextricable mass and so tightly were they jammed between the sides of the door arid the walls that'll was Impossible to lift them one by one and carry them out. The only possible thing to do was to s ize a limb or some other portion of the body and pull with main strength. Men worked at the task with tears running down their cheeks, and the sobs of the rescuers could be heard even in the hall below where thlsj awful scene was bidng enacted. "l.-- in . said he; "the fight of thoie poor women and their littl? children with clenched fists raised ss though trying to Wat their way to safety and stricken down li. the very act Is too horrible to attempt to describe. Hut I thought of how my own little one had bten saved and 1 forgot my horror and did all I could to paw thos who wore not o fortunate. I anslstf d the police and firemen In g down more than twenty bodies." Search for Loved Ones. Sheriff Barrett and a Fcore of deputies from his office agisted In carrying out tne injured people and In keeping ordr among the mob of frantic relatives who thronged the streets 'in front of the burning building, vainly seeking information that no one could give thim. "I have never wltnesed such a scene In all my life." said Sheriff Barrett. "On all sides were heaps of mangled and charred humanity. "We carried out so injured and deal that at last theyminy grew so numerous that we were unable to keep couj of thorn. Such a dreadful sight I trut I will never be called to witness again. "Crazed men fought to get within the corridors, thinking to find their loved ones among the pile of corpses that filled every available foot of jqmce. d eyr "Strong men with Mood on the sidewalk and culled loudly the names of their loves ones, as though there was n rhanco of the dead hearing. We did all we could to It wn th-- ir grief, but such scenes can never oe forgotten in a lifetime." Saved Fifteen With Ladder. Walters and cooks from Thompson's restaurant, w hich adjoins the theater J on the cast. rescued fifteen by raising a ladder from th roof of n rhto a window In the rear of th building, around which window a ma? of scresm-!r.- g womn and children ..ere congregated. C. LlttK th head cook, rr Hunted to tho top of the bdder and tol l them to Jump Into hi arms. Fifteen vomn nnl rhiidren e.H thl and wre posed by Little down to th other men on the l.idd-- r below them. One woman rsttmpud to Jump Into hi arms before he was to tak hoi I Of her and She fell to ready th ntlov frar-tur- . i irg her fkull. dying Inst.mtly. SCENE OF DEATH CHICAGO, Dec. talll rmanelitly rured. THK (tFFKH APPL1KS Tl ALL. Ii !,n !( not .lelay. hut ftart tnatm iit at onc-oPrs. Shores pooil faith in their Mtem of treatment for Catarrh ntnl peafn anl jM.itnl . t Nervous nn! Chronh Pieas. m. PONT HK LATK; ftart tnatm-nat on,-- FNPF.K HIS SPKCIAL OFFF.U IICNPUKPS WILL UK CfHKH PFIIM ANKNTLY tF TIIKIK AII MKNTS PHAfTlCALLY FHKF. . . whether you tale trealtm nt c r not. Call You can eoiiMilt Prt. Slitiren free for any . qt write. free tintii the iatietit UNABLE TO GRASP STRONG MEN. BROKE tlt 1 - CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Among the hundreds of persons who rushed to" the rescue when the call of fire at the Iroquois-theatews heard on the streets was Bishop Fallows, who happened to be f.-r- y the. Iroquois theater broke out during the second act of the play, "Mr. Bluebeard," which was the first dramatic production produced In the theater since its erection. The company, which was. very large, escaped to the street in ' safety. The accounts of .the origin of the fire are conflicting, and ncne are certain, but the best, reason given is that an electric wire on the lower part of a piece of d'op scenery suddenly broke and was grounded. ial S . z ;...130l 0 1 Y I-- 0 lw 1S71 Johnstown 000 UlSKAKB ALL 8rFFKHK;i.4 FlIOM CATAUKH Oil ANY. rATAHKIIAU-ritUONISHOIIF.S WITlI DHS. UK AT ONCi: TKKATMLNT WILL TKKATKIi HKGINNINU FHLK FNTIL A "PF.IiMANLNT t'VUir IS LFFF.TF.I. ThU rbl tnTer i mati by In. Hhorr to dcznnnstratf tu th public f K.ut nip! icitut that tiVn i a oflfrr !ra. Sh..n- - iv. their iro PEHMANKNT CFUK for Chronic Disrases. Fml.-- thin cur-- ! ft fsional wrTicvn fr- - nnl thrir tnatm nt frre until th jati.-n- t TKItMANF.NTI.Y SU MKIHf 'INF.S ACTUALLY FSF.l. In th- W fur THF. the only fharjre n any cash ten yearn, at thir offlcv in California. (olonnl nn.l Kilt City. Ftah. Pr?. e.f N rvoan atil nil PKIlONALLY tnMtit ove r NHl.fnHl CASKS of Catarrh. fr-th-PKlISONAL KXPF.lUF.NCi: thit know ami CHKONIC Disran.?. anl i, Di--- im . In iiVnmnMrati nml ill CHKONIC FOK tliat PKUMANKNT CFUK fan t!. y 'eurahlf" iaws of Catarrh ar-- Chronh Dini uM r until further notice ami tr at th m ah.l Jt 0 ....1S71 Scofield presses. TIL PERMANENTLY CURED. 0 Year Uvea lout. Place. Chicago Wisconsin forest f.res Brooklyn theater TIIfKPDAV nVKNINO. nKCKMIIKU 31, TREATMENT ABSOLUTELY. FREE 0 0 GREAT FIRE DISASTERS OF THE PAST.. Licked Up Like Tinder; 0 4f4 (w fr t"tr our rlrr3i Ama! YOfltn IN" lA'CK If oJ hie naikl effort In th hnde. s The S.! ojrn with n Grat lUrrlr, Hj.Si! all a, rc tf IT. S- fclrr o u If No do It much for ) 5j t rrketnnok. tvh'n r.?i bt!. 1 .ur to to wfTord ad thene pric tan )oj in the r Men's Suits. Chjcago fire, the greatest catatroph that has ever occurred her and the and went speed with which it seemed for a brief period to appall the business section of the city. Th" nvj spread with great rapidity, and in a short time hundreds of tr.cn. women and children were rushing toward the Chll lrn"n fourth to e r.-fm- Suit,off.tivercoat!, one-hal- f ore-fourt- do tf.'.r k cf o i th' -- to or,-h- .'- 1 At -.t ; IV. ! i choir h :r p.a J , lift-- c - -- rdrt. peopK by the Iroqtioi It is. next to th, I! A SJ 'N; )i 't rr Tit eot t off. tf "I'.lrg ; out the 1, ring With Suit r That will r.t ou h In to f n riioM & KELLY MR IN theater. The building Jn whleh Uw" calamity occurred stands midway between State and Dearborn street., on the north sid. j of Although every Randolph Ptreet. avananie policeman wnnm can rt ui" Immediately hurried t department was tlj spot and nr-- piaced in linen from the ends of th block, allowing nobody Horrifying Experience. to enter Randolph Mre-- t from either comA number of the mm were Dearborn or Stite, It was fourd almost pelled to abandon their tasks and give impossible for a time to hold back the them over to. others whose nerves had frenzied crowd that pressed forward, not as yet been shaken by the awful many o them having friend or rrhi-tlvthe bodies In the theater and being anxious experience. As one by one were dragged out of the water-soaketo learn wnvthlng of them. blackened mass of corpses, the specPolice Work Splendidly. tacle became more and more heartrending. conduct of the police was beyond There were women whose clothing allThepraise. The officers held their bodl was torn completely from their and gently pushed back firmly, ground above the waist, whose bosoms hnd all who sought to gain an entranc to been trampled into a r"lp and whose th' In Fome lr.Btir.ces although theater, of faces' were marred beyond all hope frantic men, anxious to look fo" thdr identification. ones actually beat the cffHer loved seats of over were backs bent Many fists in their rage at being with their where they had been thrown by the I revented. rush of people for the doors and killed The building wa . full of jmoke with hardly a chance to rise from their when the firemen firrt arrived that the seats. full extent of the catastrophe w.m rot Woman Cut in Twain. immediately graped until i fireman man crnwbd up th One man was found with his back and a newspaper ! th- - V ih.or.y, to nding stairway column rpidtrg bent r.earlj double, his epinal ever to th'.lr. mouth was he as been fractured having thrown backward.' A woman was tivoid suffocation. found nearly cut in lf by the back Jammed With Derul Women. of the seat, she hnving been forced As th y rraclud the doorway the over it face downward. who-vision was l ter train I in In the aisles nearest to the doors the ;u h eiiv s, F' lz d hi rompur.l. scenes were harrowing in the extreme. by th. aim. i x lalrntng : "(;i I Pd. Dodies lay in "very conceivable attiTh do;.'t w alk on tin ir f.t the look on their Man; tude, n tried in U.o al.Iy to g. t through faces revealing some jiortion of the the door, whhh was Jammed wit! ad agony which must have preceded their women, piled higher than tltr.rr of tl.'lr death. h ads. There were scores and scores of peoAll the lisht In the theater wcr tramhad been ple whose entire far out, and th or.ly UHtmimUon rssarily pled off by the h.fels of those who had tame through the of fmi-krushed over them, and In one aisle the hung between the Interior of th th atr j a body of a man was found with notre- and the. street. i rt two mn imni. vestige of clothing, flpsh or bone llately hurried to the floor b low a,;' maining above the waist line. informed Chief Muh;m of the fire t J Head and Flesh Gone. iv ..... l, I'll m hitch and ire r.romp of nhit his body :nce mu?l be render l if The entire upper portion ,n y ef th-had been cut into mince meat ami car- were to b tvd. ried away by the feet of those who had trampled on him. Long Line of Corpses. i A search was maue carefully with a nil th patrol n.ieur nnd .Although "his a but late of at head, i rvt-rfinding hope wvr.nl by th hour last night it. had nt been discov- - ptes-v- d ambulance r t:"trl int - rvie . th ered and all that will tell his friends Ir.adi piate to arry away the nnd who he was is the color "and appearance In a hort time r- wn a i f th' "i of the clothing on the lower limbs, and eorpse fifty iff l Jonr two nr.d piled I this is in such a condition as to be three hiizh n the fllwalk In front f hardly recognizable. the theater. It .vas lour.d r.T'f.iry In onlT to D. J. Sharp Coal Co., 73 South Main rrnvey th" bodies npblly to th St. Office telephone, 719. Yard telemorBiw nnd to the various undertakphone, 522. ing ef4abllshment to nTM tnuks Into 132 One Vrice n Plain Piqurcs es T 17?) TT d, INE M AGi ! $1.00 a Year 10 Cents a Copy. i "At Any Price the Best ll tt tif FRJLE. r' rrTr tJJ h-- Ldt.X'-t- l n. t wKr 4'4 trl lh,t 4, A A T. ?. 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