The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1903, Page 5

THE @ SAN FRANCISCO . CALL;, THURSDAY DECEMBER 31, 1903. 5 EXPLOSION Bishop Adminis- ters Sacrament Risks His Life to| to Dying. NEERE < Assist Fire's ] Victims. o TERS SAVE FIF] Th < Miss T ANIC INEVITABLE. 5 frag- ng rtain from our them men in al of then and chil- maniacs mber of pled under feet and he bal- wer s n strength | pon those who were nearer the| oS o with |of dead had been overtaken by | back bent nearly double, his spinal ¥ . :h‘r““,_,hpih? death as they were crawling on| column having been fractured as agh I was but Elmore in jumping ar box in front of s of flames. As I up the aisle a man rushed into 1 knocked me down. I wa stricken that I grew weak to one of the orchestra chair: »at 1 hardly remember any In some way I reached the en- 1 rear | they pos- a| their hands and knees over the Continued on Page 7, Column 4.*1\\-crc evidently torn from the was caused by the flames coming . | into contact with, the gas reser- | DIE OF GAS TANKS SENDS SEA OF FIRE THROUGH DOOMED PLAYHOUSE | ‘ - < | Wave of Fire Kills Many in Their Chairs of the theater ing them to burst. IN THEIR manager said after the catastrophe CHAIRS | | of the the audience had remained had not of “fire!” not a would have been lost. itradicted by |, and been ex- | ted by the cr) ZALLAA™M . H THOMPSC W however, is ¢ men, who 1bers of persons sitting it seats, their faces directed ments of the fi TWO HEROIC RESCUERS AND THE LOCATION OF THE DOOMED THEATER. | toward the stage, as if the per- | K It m of the firemen that A clothing of others whom_ they| had endeavored to pull down and | trample under foot as they fnught‘ these persons had been suffocated at once by the flow of gas which | for their own lives. came irom behind the asbestos | SCENE SICKENS ‘RESCUERS curt As the police removed layer after layer of dead in those do()r-] be cstimated ; T g time ab thirteen ways the sight became too much/| hundred persons wer the the-! even for police and firemen, hard- | te hundred of these| ened as they are to such sights. | er the remain- | ¢ endure. The bodies were in omes and m | gych an inextricable mass and so | The tightly were they jammed be-| the and balcony ays back of them. tween the sides of the dcor and| P . . 3 was impossible | i the walls that it to lift them one by one and carry The only possible f each doors leading out them out 1S toward ihe front| hino to do was to seize a limb or tWo ol these| some other portion of the body the erid of the in the center. Men worked at the task with 151107 the | years running down their cheeks, | | i and pull by main strengtis. | | e | | . seems to have chosen : and the sobs of the rescuers could to fice to the| ater par A s be heard even in the hall below entrance and to atter C . g 4 i t I ke ; NPt 01 where this awful scene was being : i ok the eastern| ... cted. A number of the men | eaq nto t lobby were compelled to abandon their tasks and give it over to others whose nerves had not as yet been | shaken by the awful experience. €l As one by one the bodies were | | dragged out of the water-soaked, | blackened of corpses the spectacle became more and more | er. Except for tho burned or suffocated by gas these two doorways on the ~ond balconies that t o est loss of life occurred. DEAD MASSED IN DOORWAY hen the firemen entered t the mass he found stretched in a pile reaching from | building dead w cre heartrending. et T There were women whose cloth- | the head of the stz A 5 rway at least ing was torn completely from their eight feet from the door back to| podies above the waist, - whose NI AU Ve Aootiin the rear| hosoms had been trampled into a the door. i pulp and whose faces were marred This mass of bodies in the cen- | beyond all hope of identification. ter of thedoorway reached to with- ‘ BODIES PILED IN AISLES in two feet of the top of the Pas-| 1p the first and second balconies = geway : ) bodies were piled up in the aisles 18 omt Crt l0se ol 1 - £ : ‘” (I']”']"“l ‘1‘1‘ C,Jf" 4 1‘; '[’ ‘_‘O'”F.”‘ three and four deep, where one anc - iren. it E 3 n e 1e fight for. life| 1, 4 fajlen and others tripped over which must have taken place at the prostrate forms. All had died xllch two points is .w'n‘ctlnng where they lay, evidently suffo- that it is simply beyond human cated by gas. Others were bent power to describe. - Only a faint | over the backs of seats, where they idea of its horror could I,.c de- | had been thrown by the rush for | m)n} the aspect of | the door, and killed with hardly bodies as they lay. |a chance to rise from their seats. Women on top of these masses| - One man was found with his | yoint All of the corpses at the ‘he was thrown backward. A woman was found cut nearly in | half by the back of the seat, she | having been forced over. it face down. In the aisles nearest to the doors the scenes were harrowing in the extreme. Bodies lay in bodies of those who had died be- fore. Others lay with arms stretched out in the direction toward which lay life and safety holding in their hands fragmen;s of garments not their own. They , . | by | every conceivable attitude, half Relatives of Vic- tims Battle With the Police. Strive to Gain En- trance to the Theater. | CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Rarely in the history of Chicago has its peqple been so stirred as by the calamity of to-day. Next to'the Chicago fire, it is the { | Breatest castrophe that has ever oe- curred here, and the speed with which it came and went seemed for a brief period to appall the business section of the city. The news spread with great rapidity and in a short time hundreds of men, women and children were rush- ing toward the th The building in occurred stands mic and Dearborn ts, on the north side of Randolph street. Although every available policeman within call of the er hich the calamity vay between State department was immediately hurried to the spot and men placed in lines | | from the ends of the block, allowing nobody to enter Randolph street from either Dearborn or State, it was found for a time alme possible to hold back the frenzied crowd that pressed Incomplete Roster of Victims of the Catastrophe Car- ries the Names of Hundreds. - | forward, many of them having friends or relatives in the theater and being anxious to learn something of them. POLICE WIN PRAIS The conduct of the police was beyond all praise. The officers held their ———— o Continued From Page 1, Column 4. the tidings of her daughter’s death. Mrs. King, wife of John C King, attorney. Lillian Philippson, 6 years old; identification uncertain. Boy, 17 years old, lived at La- fayette, Ind. William Rattley; died in hos- pital. William = M. Waukegan, Ili. Roy Fox;-body at morgue. Mrs. L. H. Butler; at morgue Wardman; at morgue. Edmund W. Morton, Wagner Electric Company, St Louis. —. Newby. J. A. Kockems. Mrs. Stern. | H. Donaldson, addresg unknown. Ré%. George Howard Dudley, pastor of All Saints Church. Miss J. H. Dodd of Delaware, visiting friends at Wheaton, Iil. 3 Miss V. Delee, daughter of the late lieutenant of police. W. W. Hooper, Kenvsha, Wie, Five children of H. S. Van Inger of Kenosha. Father became separated from them and is among the injued. Mrs. John Minewigging, \\ifu} Ald- erman. Mildred Merriam, 3 years old, rescudd father, but died on reaching the streef. Bernice Balley, at Morgue. Mrs. A. M. Mandel, identified by ring. C. A. Winslow, commercial traveler, of Three Rivers, Minn. Donald Wells, name on handkerchief. Burr Scott. Fornetta Peterson. Harvey Kieley, lLaclede avenue, Louis. Thomas Coutell. Emperly Hall. Thomas J. Flanagan, avenue, Indianapolis. Mrs. M. A. Henry. Rose K. Rogers, identified by card in | purse. | H. P. Moore. | | | Reed, lawyer, agent Ohio, St. 6292 College €. Li Cooper. May Curran. “Martin,”” a boy of 15 1. Moses. . H., W. Williams. B. Regenberg. Ella Linden. —— Henning, a boy. Walter B. Eisler, identified by watch. —— Muir, first name not learned; member Traveling Passenger Agents’ Association; carried check No. 12,231 Mrs. Emma Brinckley, identified by her father at the Morgue. o naked, the look on the vealing some portion of the agony which must have preceded their deaths. There were scores and scores of persons whose en- tire faces had been trampled com- pletely off by the heels of those who rushed over them, and in one aisle the body of a man was found with not a vestige of cloth- ing, flesh or bone remaining above his waistline. The entire upper portion of his body had | been cut into mince meat and carried away by the feet of thpse! who trampled on him. A searclf was made carefully with a hope of finding his head, but at a late hour to-night it had not been dis- covered and-all that wiil tell his friends who he was is the colot and appearance of the ciothing on the lower limbs, and this is in such a condition as to be hardly recognizable. —_——— Pretty papeteries in beautiful boxes— env@lopes and paper tied with silk rib- bons. Good for New Year's. Sanborn, Vail & Co. = €S re- Richard and Allen Holst. Harold Martin, Puliman, John Holland. Lulu Shabbard. W. N. Sprang: Charles H. Koll. Mrs. Dawson, address unknown. William Butl. Robert Martin, young son of Princi- pal Martin of Pullman School. John Van Ingen, Kenosha, Wis. Walter Bessinger, died at hospi Margaret Buerman, died at hospital. Mrs. Leo Wolff, Hammond, Ind., died at hospital. Alice Kausman, died at hospital. Helen Howarg, died at hespital. . Helen Cooper, died at hospital. | B | { B. E. Gould, died at hospital. Walter B. Zeisler, son of Dr. Zeisler of the University of Chicago, who is ! now in Europe. Mortimer Eldbridge. Helen Beyersloth, Evanston, Ill. Rev. Henry L. Richardson. Louis Kisner and wife, said to have belonged to “Mr. Bluebeard” com- pany. | Lester Doty, son of L. B. Doty of II- | linois Steel Company. Mrs., A. N. Mendel, banker. Walter D. Austrian, aged 14, son of | wife of retired Joseph D. Austrian, president of the Lake Michigan Transportation Com-| pany. 1 Fred Sawyer. | J. Graham (identified by under- clothing). | William McGary (body at morgue). | Leander Deffendorf, Lincoln IIL | Died at hospital. Paul Windes, body at morgue. Mrs. Morton Fox, Winnetka, IIL, body t morgue. Annie Moak, body at morgue. Walter P. Packer, body at morgue. Times McClelland. Pauline Geary, body at morgue. Uhidentified r with' watch en- graved “E. D. M.” body at morgue. Sidney Fox, body at morgue. | Mrs. C. D. Bartlett, Bartlett, IIL, | body at morgue. | M John Adeneck, Bartlett, 111, sis- ter of above; body at Margue. | Gertrude Falkenstein, Bartlett, Tl | niece of Mrs. Bartlett; body at Morgue. Mrs. W. T. Boise, body at Morgue. Mrs. William ' Dawson, Barrington, 111.; body at Morgue. William Buertel, body at Morgue. Mary T. Gartz body at Morgue. Louise Buschwah, died at hospital. Leigh Holland, hody at Morgue. Warner S. Edill, Kankakee, TIl. Herman' Eisenstadt. Unidentified girl, at Morgue, wore | | medal inscribed “Georgia.” Carrie Sayor, body at Morgue. 1‘ Harry Hudson, member of “The Bil- | lionaire” company: body at Morgue. | B. E. Gould, Elgin, II., ¢lerk of Cir- cuit Court of Kane County; dled at hespital. His wife was injured. Mrs. W. A. Spring, body at Morgue; identified hy letter from hushand. Fred W. Leatin, body at Morgue. Beane Boise, body at morgue. Mrs. J. H. Stringler, Lowell, body at morgue. C. M. Bickford, body at morgue. Unidentified woman, wearing ring marked “E. K., October 20, 1874," body at morgue. C. R. Barheim, body at morgue. Esther Barker, body at morgue. ward L. Van Ingen, Kenosha, Ind., w Slizabeth Hart and Mattie Martin, Evanston, 111, reported dead by Evan- ston police, but whereabouts of bodies not given. LIST OF THE MISSING. Following is a lst of the missing. Whers no address is given the’ resi- dence is Chicago: Frank Dooley, Dooley. Joseph Kingsley and his mother. Mrs. Lulu Greenwald and son. Henry Boehl. Mrs. C. E. Erickson and son and daughter, Aurora, Ill.; were in balcony, John Fitzgibbon. Wililam Gunsaulus, W. W. Gunsaulus. Edna May Swift, daughter of L. A. Swift. Mrs. Arthur Bergh and son. Mrs. M. Stark, Des Moines, Towa. Mrs. O. J. Tuthill, Des Moines. Mrs. M. Fredericks. Emma Olson, accompanying above. Mrs. Charles Page. Mrs. Spechte. Mrs. Mary Ray. Lena and Anna Moak, Watertown, Wis. Irma Werkoff. Edna M. Farney. ‘W. T. Boyce, wife and daughter. A. F. Gartz. G. W. Breckner, supposed to have son of Magistrate nephew of Dr. <+ | ground firmly and gently pushed back all who sought to gain an entrance to the theater, although in some instances frantic men, anxious to look for their loved ones, actually beat the officers with their fists in their rage at being prevented. In spite of the efforts of the police, been one of box party. D. Russ, address unknown. Mrs. Frank Berg, son and daughters Olga and Rosalind; were in balcony. Mrs.: John' Guthardt and daughter Eliza; were in balcony. Mrs. Kavanaugh, supposed to be however, a large number of perso among unidentified dead at the Morgue. [ g0 00, & e e Mrs. R. Reis and two children. lines and entering the theater, and, in Mrs. Rose Bloom. many cases, did heroic work in rescu- Hflf“ Brown. ing the injured and carrying out the Mrs. Balley. dead. Among these was Alderman W. Mrs. McKenna and son. H. Thompson, who, unaided, carried to the street the bodies of eight women The first newspaper men upon the ground also carried out many of the dead and injured The building was full of smoke when the firemen first arrived that the full extent the catastrophe was not immediately graspe until a fireman and a newspaper man crawled up the stairway leading the balcony, hold- ing handkerchiefs over their mouths to avoid suffocation. As they reached the door the fire wh Belle Prinney. Florence Hutchins, Waukegon, Il Mary and Barbara Gartz, children of F. Gartz, treasurer of the Crane ator Company. Colored nurse of Gartz children. Jennie French, Kirkville, Mo. Dolly Reid. | s Reid. Mary Forbes, Mrs. Hull's maid. McGill and daughter Jane. Steinninger. Emily Fox, mother of Hoyt na Fox, and her son and daughter, all | ter trained in » lived at Winnetka, TIL. | his companion by the arm, exclaiming Lucille Meade, Berwyn. | ————— adionds <2 e Miss Foulke, Berwyn. Continued on Page 7, Column Edward and Louise Dee, children. Joseph E. Cullison. John Holland, Des Moines. Miss Nina Hansen. Mrs. Mary Tarlet and two daugh- ter Mrs. David Kennedy, Freeport, Ill H. Ludwig, wife'and two daughters of | Park. | Jones. | Fowler. Mrs, Duval Mrs. A. Roaken of Zanesville, and two daughters. Miss Bessié Chapman, aged 19 years, Cedar Rapids, Towa. Miss Nina Chapman of Cedar Rapids, | Towa, sister of above. Miss Anna McChristie. Mrs. Charles Hickman. Mrs. Agnes Newman and son. William -~ Bartlett, son daughter. Elsie Meyer, West Grossdale, Pearl Wunderlich. Rainier, Burlington, Iowa. Edward Frazier. Mrs. Elva Ohio, and n. Mrs. Koll. Mrs. Folly and five children. May Marx. Nellie Hars. Maude Smith, Desplaines, IIL Marcus Smith. Willie and Frank Garn, children. Mrs. Ella Hust. Flora Gark. Lena Hoffheintz. Mrs. Francis Kircher. Miss Electa Sylvester. Clara Willis. Mrs. Willis Wagner. Harriet Wolf, daughter of L. Wolf, the millionaire. Margaret Devine. Ruth Beyersoth, Evanston, Il John Miller, address unknown. Julia Brewster. Ray Lowitz. Mr: san Turney. Mrs. Barton and daughter. Lillie Gass. Ray Greenwald. George Sexton, Beloit, Wis. Walter Thatcher. Mrs. A. Alexander. M. B. Rhimes. William C. Bentall. Hannah Welfeld. Miss Laura Bolle. Josephine Philat. Theodore Robert, Woodford, Ill. Mrs. Edna Wilcox. Bessie Zimmerman. Jessie Linemeyer, Evanston, IllL Adele Regenburg. Arthur Carille, member of “The Bil- lionaire” company, Illinois Theater. ‘William - Ahern. Helen Dewey, 18 years old. Ida Cunningham. Mrs. S. Stockard, address unknown. Barlow Clayton, 12 years old. Bicker Glenn, 14 years of age. Dora Mitchell. Mrs. Anna Dixon. Leah Dixon. Edna Dixon. Efla Duboeis. C. G. Mucker. Mabel Mucker. Zella Mucker. Claire Mucker. Russell Mucker. Cariton Mucker. M. R. McKay. Joseph Beznek and wife. Archie and Robert Eippach, boys. Helen, Marian and Catherine Long, children, of Geneva, IlL. Mrs. F. H. Stafford. Emma Carban. Lewis Brewer. 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