The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 7, 1904, Page 2

theatre. Bishop Fallows, who happened to be Two of these doorways are at the| passing the theatre. Without fear end of the balcony, and one being injor hesitation he made his way i the center. through the darkness that was in tensified by the volume of emoke | § peaate Geno ae that filled the auditorium to the top Responsible for Death of Many. | of the gallery and assisted in thecar- Theandience in its rush forthe out-| *7ing out of the victims. er air acems to hare, fur the greater “God forbid that I ever egain see part, chosen to fie to the left en- such a heartrending sight,” said the trance and to attempt to make its | bishop to-night. “I have been in way down the eastern stairway lead | 78'S and upon the bloody field of ing into the lubby of the theatre. | Dattle, but in all my experience I Outalde«.f the people burned and have never seen anything half so auffvcated by gas, it was in these two grewsome as the sight that met my doorways on the first and eecond bal eyes when, with the aid of a tiny lan- conies that the greatest loss of life |, I was finally. able to penetrate occurred. the inky darkness of that balcony. When the firemen entered the build- “There wase pile of bleeding bodies ing the dead were fuund stretched in| ten feet high with blackened faces & pile reaching from the head of the and the remnants: cf charred cloth- stairway at least eight fect from the ing clinging to them. Some were door back toa point about five fect |Slive and mouning in their agony. in the rear of the door. Others, and, oh, by far the greatest Thie mass of dead bodies was in number, were dead. I assisted in the center of the door, which reached |C@Frying many of the injured down to two fect of the top of the passage- | &0d ministered to them the best I way. could.” Allof the corpses at this point were| Rarely in the history of Chicago women and children. has its people been so stirred as by The fight for iife which must have the calamity of to-day. taken place at these two pointe is lt is next to the Chicago fire, the sumething simply beyond human greatest catastrophe that has ever power to adequately describe. occurred here, and the speed with Ouly a ‘taint idea of its horror which it came and went seemed for a could be derived from the sspect of brief period to appall the business the bodies aa they lay. section of the city. Women on top of theee masses of The building was so full of smoke dead had been overtaken by death | When the firemen first arrived that as they were crawling on their hands the full extent of the catastrophe was and knees over the bodies of those|20t immediately grasped until the who had died befure. firemen and newspaper men crawled Others Iny with arms stretched vut | UP the stairway leading to the bal in the direction toward which lay life}Cony, holding handkerchiefs over and safety, holding in their hands their mouths to avoid suffocation. fragments cf garments not their As they reached the doorway, @ own. fireman, whose wisdom was better They were evidently torn from, the trained in such emergencies, seized vlothing of others whom they had his companion by the arm and ex- endeavored to pull down and t am- claimed: pled under food us they foughtfor] “God God, man, don’t walk on their own lives. their faces.” As the police removed layer alter] 2 ¥omeutrivd- vainly topetth layer of the dead in these doorwaya,| the door, which was jammed with the sight became too much even for dead women piled higher than either the police and firemen, hardened aa| oF their heads. they are to euch sights, to endure. All the lights of the theatre were The bodies were in such an inextri-| necessarily out and the only illumi- cable mass and ro tightly were they | Nation came through the cloud of jammed between the sides of thedoor | Smoke that hung between the iater- and walls that it was impossible to ‘or of the theatre and the street. lift them one by one and carry them| Two men immediately hurried to the out. floor below and informed Chief Mus- The only possible thing to do was ham of the fire department. to seize a limb or some otherportion| While scores of men were busy in of the body and pull with main carrying out the dead and injured, strength. others, fortunately few in number, searched the aisles and seats for val- uables. Women were found who had pro- Coal heating stoves, Superior air tight, Superior gem oak, Radiant Home, Radiant home hot blast. Hagey King heaters, I. X. L. king heaters, Box stoves. A few cast stoves at your own price. Coal hods, coal shovel, fire pokers, stove boards and stove mats. Cook Stoves and Ranges. Quick meal steel ranges, Superior stzel ranges, Superior cast ranges and Superior cook stoves. Allof the above goods are Always Reliable. We are not trying to establish a “Cut Rate Store’. We are not trying to make the big- gest show. Our ambition is to deserve the reputation of being Always Reliable. Our great effort is to make every customer satisfied and pleased with the treatment received at our store. No matter whether you want Grocer- ies or Hardware, or a Wagon or Buggy. or mere- ly a box of matches we will be glad to serve you promptly, courteously, and willingly. Produce always wanted. Yours truly. G. E. CABLE. North Side Square, Butler, Mo. FG PEOPLE KILLED IN TEN MINUTES WAROQUIOIS THEATRE FIRE, Fight of Terror-Stricken People as They Sought to " Escape Death Beyond the Power of Words to Describe---Bodies Piled Three and Four Deep i. and Are Mangled Beyond Hope of Recognition. Chicago, Dec. 30.—About five hun- dred and fifty people were killed in ten minutes this afternoon during a curtain failed to work. Are in the Iroquois theatre, the larg | As soon as the fire was discovered est, and as far as human powercould Eddie Foy, chief comedian of the make it, the safest theatre in Chi company, shonted to lower the cur- not serious and possibly could have been checked had not the asbestos Police and Firemen Broke Down and Wept While Working. zago. tain, and this was immediately dove vided themselves with baskets and The estimates of the dead andin | Itdescended about half way and| The mon worked at the tack with | ;ere filling them with the property jared vary. | then stuck. tears ruuning down their cheeks, and | of the deud. They were immediately the sobs of the rescuers could be heard even in the hall below where this awful scene was being enacted. A number of men were compelled to aoandon their task and give it over to others whuse nerves had not as yet been shaken by the awful exper- ience. Asone by one the bodies were drag ged out of the water-soaked, black- ened mass of corpses, the spectacle became more and more heart rend- ing. In the first and second balconies the bodies were filed up in the aisles three or four feet deep, where one had fallen and the other tripped over the prostrate forms. The police count of the dead is 536 The estimate of the newspapers in 562. Besides this there are 55 people missing at midaight, a majority of whom are probably among the dead in the morgue and various undertak- ing establishments. Eighty-six of the dead have b en positively identified, and $2 others are known to be injured. Itwas many hours before theexact aumber of the dead was known, and % will be many days before all of them will be identified. There are bodies lying by dozens to- | aight in the undertakiug rooms, in the police stations and in the bospi- The fire thus was given practically |@ flue through which a strong draft was settling, aided by the doors, which had been thrown open in front | of the theatre. With a roar and bound the flames shot through the opening over the beads of the people on the first floor, and, reaching clear up to those inthe | first baleony, caught them and burn ed them to death where they sat. Immediately following this rush of flames there came an explosion which lifted the entire rvof of the theatre from its walls, shattering the great skylight into fragments. As soon as the flames first appear ed beyond the curtain a man in the placed under arrest and the theatre ushers and stage hands were given the work of collecting all the valua- bles on the floor of the theatre. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure E. W, Grove’s signature is on each box, 25e. Auother name has been added to the list of victims of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad wreck at Dawson, Pennsylvania, the other day, mak ing the total death list of 65. Army is Prepared to Occupy a tals, —. which — neg rear of the hall shouted: 4 poles ied oa they lay, evi- Panama. that could reveal their identity to} “pipe! Fire!” ently suffoca ry gas. : those who knew them best is gone. Others were bent over the backs of| Washington, December 31.—In This was as the entire audience rose a6 One person and made for the deors. It ig believed that the explosion was caused by the flames coming in contact with the gas reservoirs of the theatre, c using them to burst. Will J. Davis, manager of the the- atre, said after the catastrophe, that itthe people had remained in their seats and had not been excited by the ery of fire, not a single life would have been lost. This is, however, contradicted by the statements of the firemen, who found numbers of people sitting in their seats, their faces directed to. ward the stage as if the performance |i? one aisle the body of 8 man was was still going on. found with not a vestige of clothing, Itis the opinion of the firemen that flesh or bone remaining above his these persons had been suffocated at | Wists line once by the flow of gas which came The entire upper portion of his trom bebind the asbestos curtain, | body had beem cat into mince meat As near as can be estimated at the weg an'as pe a the hip ctthope time about 1,800 who chee tn the theatre. People wore)", ssarch was made caretolly with ‘Three hundred of these were on the the hope of finding his head, but ata firet floor, the remainder being in the late hour to night it had not been balconies and in the hallways back | discovered. Sia hai . ve Bromo-Quinine Gallant Rescue Work of Bishop cure a cold in one day.. No cure, no Fallows Whe Was Nearly Dead, Pay. Price 25 cente. a —) Bears the anticipation of complications that may soon arise on the isthmus of Panma the United Statee army is pre- pared to go to war at a moment’s notice. Orders have been issued secretly by the war department toall branches of the service stationed at convenient points upon both the Alantic and Pacific coasts to hold themeelves in readiness to move in- tantly. Transports are being held at New York, Boston, San Francisco and other pointe in readiness for actior. Supply ships have been prepared, the troops have packed and are ready to goand now all depends upon how Columbia receives General Reyes u; - on his return empty-handed from bis negotiations with the United States, whether or not the army shall stic- esed the navy at Panama before the seate, where they had been thrown by the rush of people for the doors and killed without hardly a chance vo rise from their seats. In the aisles nearest to the doors the scenes were harrowing in the ex treme. The bodies lay in every conceivable attitude, half naked, the look on their faces revealing some portion of the agony with which must have pre- ceded their death. There were scores and scores of people whose entire face had been trampled completely off hy the heels of thoge who rushed over them, and Their clothing is torn to rags or durned tocinders and their faces have deen mashed into an unrecognizable pulp by the heela of the crowd that trampled them down ac they fled for safety. The fire broke out during the sec- ond act of the play, “Bluebeard,” which wae the firet dramatic produc- tion produced in the theatre since its erection. - The company, which was very large, eecaped to the street in safety, wearly all of them, however, being compelled to flee into the snowy streets, with no clothing but their stage costumes. 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