Deseret Evening News | 1904-01-25 | Page 7 | Responsibility for Iroquois Fire

I fLIT fO 1 rl L Report of Tire Fire Chief It the Theater cater Man BUILDING WAS NOT COMPLETED I At Time It Was Opened Did Dl Not Do 10 Tc Should Have Ic Done Donl and Exits Were Closed Chicago Jn 23 Upon tho manage management Inage ment builders of ot the thea theater the ter has ha been leel placed tho responsibility rC for tor the tho lire lre horror In a report rendered to tu Mayor Harrison by br iro Chief today todar Tho leport wag prepared by D 10 Ally tr Monroe onro after an In examination of oC neatly lOa wit witnesses lt nesses In tho das Immediately follow following ing In the lire Ir No Is made malIc of oC Ilia tho building department although several viola violations tony of or tho building ordinances lre noted lote Atty At that the theater building was aR not ot completed at lt the It was Ins tho theater t hea ea did 11 not do to what they tle could to tu put the lire lre out and ulI that thu durM and alli exits exis were W le generally throughout the tl building three und al four hundred rela relatives tives nf ft victims of oC the theater I Hie lre at a II 1 today tola begun the per permanent manent organization of ot the Memorial association which hat hal for Its I chief object the creation cr llon of ot a I monument the who ment to the memory remor of or persons lot their lives in II the holocaust t tI It I is ec to u I towering I building nf oC absolute material upon 81 of ot the theater ruins Of at Offers fers Cel of largo sums of or money arl to tl have lieen made tall by h prominent nent persons whose hose names will wi be bo used to head hend n II public subscription Whether It will be their purpose to has hns not a 1 len been hospital I decided or an nn building