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Show SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISH IN CHICAGO FIRE - v; - ' Chicago, Dee. 30. Nearly COO" people were killed In ten minutes thii afternoon after-noon during a lite In the Iroquois theater, thea-ter, the newest, the largest and, us fur . ' ' as liuinau power could uiaJso it, tlio saf- '- "" ' est theater in Chicago. " . Estimates of tho dead nnd injured vary. The police count of dead is MO, y The estlmato of tho newspapers is 502, I There arc 05 people missing at inid- - 'light, the majority of whom nro prob- nbly among tho dead iu the morgue and ( various undertaking' establishments. Kiglity-six Of the dead luivo boon idon- tilled, and 1)2 persons aro known to be injured. It will be many hours before tho num- berofdeud will bo accuratolyknown, nnd many days befoiO all of them will lie identified. ' - The lire broko out clitritijr tho second net of the play, "Mr. Illuebeard," v which w-.u the first dramatic produc- tion pioduced in tho theater since its erection. The roiupauy, which was very largo, escaped to the street In 'i safety, . Tho necounts of the otlgin of tho (Ire .;,' " nro coiiliictiug, and none nro certain, T''".', but the best reason glvon is that nu electric wire, on tho 'lower part of a k pfeco of dro scenery suddenly broke and was grounded. - - - |
