| Show i I CORONERS R R J JURY VISITS 1 IT FIRE SCENE Gf L Jurors Examine the Exits and Declare leclare They Were Tere Times too to Small ASK SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS Want Vant ant to Know Inow Why Wh Ushers Asked tile the Audience to Seated Alter Fire Broke Out 31 Coroner Trae er tonight took a 11 Jury jur Jul of ot business rash men to 10 Investigate the tire fire at the thi Iroquois theater In III which COO 11 persons were killed kill II to examine tho time theater heater Tho rho Jury Jur had spent the tho day In iii visiting morgues s to soe oo tho the curiLlaS corl On 01 arris arriving lug ing In nt at the thc theater the Jury first wont WInt to ti the stage Deputy Coroner lorner heck Duck Duckley Juck ley icy pointed out the whore where the lie lire fire tre started Thc rl seats In iii II the time lIst 10 rows rowson rowl rowlon on the thu first hoer noor were ere burned burll but back backof of ot that the orchestra chairs were wem In II good condition In n one 01 corner of ot tho the stage was vas a n pile of brass bras spears orator armor used In the tho production of ot Mr All Mi Al that woe was 1111 visible of oC time the lb ISO pieces of ot scenery cene used me In lu tho hue were small smal lilies ot of f ash uth ashes I h es Cs where the scenery had 1111 dropped and burned burnett on our tho the stage I rime rho ril steel trainee frames of ot the time arc nrc lights III ono aim aie of o which Is III said sahit 1411 to have caused td tho time catastrophe were Cu piled In confusion near the he front tron of ot the tho stage The lime h Jury Jur asked n led Coroner olner re regarding regarding garding the asbestos curtain that lint caught when an al attempt was wal made to lower louver It II The Tha member of ot tire tho Jury Jur while en ln engaged In Inspecting In tho the stage frequent frequently ly iy remarked that bitt the protection the tIme I lire seemed to them to have been hell lied Ir Inadequate The Tue Jurymen then their climb climbed leading to the Iho first bal brul balcony ed el II the stairway a bil cony can Here tho the plush covering cf of the th was found to be bo burned burnett on ever eel sent seat An ti n Inspection In tune made of ot tho ire exits leading to the Iho he fire nrc lre escape at nt time the north end of ot the tho lie building These doors door are much lu h too small they th triune 1110 lieen temu three times tre 1 as u large said Juror Finn 1 The Iron host 1101 doom dents were mere closed 1 and locked incited anti and It was wn then thou seen that lint tho Inner doors were well so close chose to 10 the steel shut shutters tore that hot they th could not be opened when the shutters were Iero fastened Tine This ox ex exIt It I Is I not lint sufficiently high for tor a II man lan to walk through without stooping and when the time Jurors learned title this fact tal by 1 personal experience there was tins much 1 II oh comment among theta them The Thc Jurymen then their ascended l to 10 o the top gallery where tho time greatest loss ot of C life lito occurred Coroner pointed to the time Itch bal balcony cony fony con rail which was Wil bent bout In tn several places and said that hat n a number of ot spec spectators hunt had Jumped through thought been open oien openIngs Pigs InK to the lower floor An Inspection was wa then lien made of ot the time exits elM leading to the time fire Ore escapes the Jurors juror were toll toil time the bodies of the lie dead were ero 10 to feet tle high In front of lt these thea doors door when the time police reached tho ho theater th If I those doors doore were ere locked some somebody somebody body holly was IS criminally negligent sale said i Juror Finn The exits are too tam to small anyway alI said Mid Juror Meyer as ni ho he measured the doors leading headIng ledIng to time tho fire Oro escapes At time the conclusion of oe the time Inspection ot of time the theater It I was vas 01 decided to continue the he Inquest until next Thursday A it few of the questions to which tho the Jury Jur will trIll wi endeavor to 10 obtain satisfactory tory lor Or answers nt at tim the Inquest t are ne neWer Were the lie steel dO N loading bailing to the he theOre heIre Ore Ire escapes escapee S on op 01 the first Or t and second balconies locked when the he fire broke out If I they wore lucre locked were they the opened promptly prompt by 1 the attendants il Why Wh was la It Impossible to lower tho the asbestos lo curtain Why did d tho thur management nt permit thin tho tise se of ot mire IC lights In tho hue thee Hies with nO nn duvic to prevent carbon sparks front troll igniting gulling time tho borders of ot the tho to scenery and the ho curtain I Why Wiry did lit the he ushers others ns an n alleged strut shut ni It time the doors und urge the audience to tf seated otO after fler the lira Ilo broke out olt Instead of ot I doing roll everything e to 10 time the house |
