The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1903, Page 5

seams some thy —_———$—$———$—<——$—$—— oe THIRD SPECIAL EXTRA HUNDREDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN) MEET HORRIBLE DEATH IN GREATES| FIRE CATASTROPHE OF CENTU Iroquois Theater in Chicago Gutted by Flames and the Panic-Stricken Audience Were Caught Like Rats in a Trap--Many Chorus Girls Among the Dead and Injured-=-Big Play Was Going on When Fire Started BULLETINS. | CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—One hundred and fifteen bodies) LABOR LEAD ERS have already been removed to the morgue. The dead we running to and from the scene ofthe fire form an almost con- tinuous procession. At 5:10 o'clock 52 bodies, burned and charred beyond all in The Star yeater- jar jentred ube i they maid they chance of recognition, had been carried from one side en | d onl f thi ber showed of if today took | ided in the state taw quoted tn i ce, ie ite. rein, ° in the atate law ¢ trance, and only one of this number s signs ving the Siar’ yesterday i quoted tn ibe The police department has sent squad after squad of men | pyiy a ediitieh PA Bao pactpage Sy oad 9 pcehaeBle | * iIamued them for all munittee explained that #t aiffieu get the required | alt the estab. | question In the city *, but Mr. Soctt was obstinate, rh enmittee fn told him that | p Sun- jit he did not issue the warrante ty W would go and reoure the warran ther court officer and be damned, to help keep back the frenzied crowd now looking for friends among the dead. } The bodies have been removed from the building so rap- idly th: the rescuers have simply piled them in the street and | xecutive they lie several deep on the sidewalks, the undertakers being | mot «tv © said Hable t tend to be made unable to care for them, }. Wh by the committee tm) t aking any such action The list of dead is consta ntly growing. CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—5 :30 P. M.—-Fire Marshal Campion at it would net print the ¢ Ucen even if awarded the The majority of vt anct tee adetnning the Promsed themmoly« says, after a personal investigation, that he believes there are a . presented | a { (he Times Printing company fully g00 dead bodies in the first balcony of the theater years by che. oF Tecate. it was enUy to avenge Neelf on toe a | Americas. Mr Bluebeard, t Tay SE number of dead at close to 500. Exact figures will not be ob- Jat the’ Knicherbooker channee TRL STILL ON York, The piece wae notable fo tainable for hours. | many electrical effects that te ite specta © value CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—4:45 P. M.—The fire is now out. |‘R2",Ponsibie that tom, During the The police estimate that 500 lives were lost seems conserva- |New Y ch and later In Pittabur CHICAGO, Dec: 30.—The-Jatest estimate now place the | Puxtish spectacle to be presemtnd in | | | | be trial of Lieut. Oncar C. Haines f the reveaue © Haines, is st feera-|in progress before a courtmartial in ' court wuliding. tive. i | wa pia CHICAGO, Dec. %.—Pire broke out | pays dead.and inj for theater in| MEN in the new lroquoie theater thiv af: e auditoriwn pi | New Yor. } ternoon. The playhouse was eed es of the aiale and also be-| fh . natruction and ith a bia matinee mor, most! bem. follewed = th men and children, who were there | firat estimates seem asmalt.| more recent “art ncheme. « fren proba 9 Witness a performance of “Btue beard | ” ve that the dead xpense was nol hundred. Ap-| “Mr. Bluebeard A wild panic followed the discov- | proximately seventy bodies have been | holding the boards this afternoon, te ery of the fire. Women and children | removed. Th #4 long row of dead | one of the bigment rushed pelimell from the building, | on evenly | sented on the American stage, sna | screarr i fear. } het some ¢ the mer Thr hundr abingle manufactur Many fell beneath the feet of the | of the prod mn can ber ore froth « toe 6 the western, pe pante stricken th aid that more than @® pe ribly trampled. ng and were hor. it ts on ed in the various ta ‘ the state are im jon in Kikw’ hall ‘The fire broke out on the stage 209 brows delay ed etenty apron d spread with frightful rapidity 4| members of the Colman bollding, this afterneen, mong the elaborate stage settings. | mi jor Are inexperienced supernum- | discussing the pian by which the In It gained headway so rupidly that » mbers | eraries engag terstate Red Cedar Shingle company pumber of chorus gipis were unat t Fire, |that the attra — oe nae, Soaee to secure their clothing and barely | pes the floor of | ia comed: for ail the shingte mills of thd atate ped to the street with their lives. | (4, wt Foy and Mixs The Various committees met: hin ral were overcome with smoke! soc4 trom eve: " Oyen hm : es. Sineeaiets ee had to be carried out by fire-| 0+ rhe ¢ s = einen oe . oa * ' een intense cold of zero weathers | Pe street ts terri heard. | Hatt fternoon, adding to the horror of the situs tion and the fire department is mak ing but little headway against the where mothers hildren. Sea FOUND BODY The body of « man in a partly dn mp: shack at Pin encroaching flames. j rhe fire started in the flies and picked 4 car throagh the mass of restaurant, whieh tw scenery. The entire rear 7 now a mass of Mam Fifteen members of the troupe, us girls, are supposed to be dead Tear end of the building. MURDE |MAN CRAZED WITH DRINK state was found im a vatant enee woth and Ho ported among the they were trapped by the a member of the con "| gate street, after by oa The Hist of missing children sprang from the atage, ran down th WANTONLY 6HOOTS FRIENDS, | tice und coroner have ben notified, constantly growing. One wh isle, eized the child, and carried it) WITHOUT PROVOCATION ~ rditoriism saya ack to & plane of safet | ~ = — th d thie ni noatly ' traordinary tome of childr : . d fer b # fact that }tempted to f . af board: at loast fit 1 » wh snes | he net inritet imine aid. fty others are #0 ' A th pivecsl i ed Into jured as to t ble mpanied by|the ballwa Mre e atilh ur ‘A . aida. Mary Kreegk ning,| SAN FRANCISCO, Deo, %.—The of flrem now | shot her twice, inflicting a fatal! gunboat Bennington sailed for Pan @ the de in- The Iroquois, one of the newest| wound, Peckr jas still uncap- ama to She is convoy for the ured from the building, houses in was y tured, torp royers Jones and Preble THE STAR'S CARTOONS ARE UNEXCELLED IN THE WEST NOT BLUFFING r = SESSION LOOKS L LONDON, Deo. 30—Right on the) gan of the Russian government at heels of the brighter outlook of af-|St. Petersburg, states today that « [faire in the Far Bast the past few crisis is at hand, and the slightest | days come rumors today that seem turn of afi } ite presage a declaration of war be-\ning of hostilities, This is the most HEreon Aw may cause the begin ia and Japan, and the) rming expression that has yet talk in semi -official circles here, this| emanated from the domain of the afternoon, is the most pessimistic! czar, and is considered as strongest | . | since the Eastern trouble began. | ¢vidence that Russia is prepared to | | | The belief is prevalent that the serept the inevitable, end is expect Japanese government has been using ing @ clash. 1s most strenuous endeavors to sup Japanese dispatches show that 1s information as to the real sit- the populace in many places is fair uation, fearing that too much pub- |ly goading the government into wa lieity will enly precipitate open vie-/and that the war fever is rapidty| lene, which is now thought to be # spreading. foregone conclusion. | Dispatches from Kobe to Berlin | propo It is thoroughly believed in Lon. lpapers state that it hae been learn don that a clash between the bellig- ed from a erent powers is imminent. declaration of war by Japan is al- The Nove Vremya, the official or- t inevitable. ‘EVANGELIST NELSON WAS “KANGAROOED” COUNTY JAIL PRISONERS DION'T DO A THING TO THE STREET i PREACHER CHARGED WITH ADULTERY WHEN HE BECAME ONE OF THEM—HE WAS ARRESTED IN TACOMA P. H. Nelson, the street preacher | against Nelson. t to Seatth ht shocked at her straying from the and is now a prisoner in th Wnty orthodox faith will textify agate jail, which he has visited in his both her and Nelson. Jistertal capacity The two left the oity at the con. | He was broug ant ‘This inatanes of the Irony of fate | clusion of the divorcee tings |greatly arnuses those inmates of the |and have been living tom in two county bast or whom he has|small rooms m Tace Ison has prayed i times pant to whom | been ‘preaching and doing carpenter he hae preached innumerable times. | work t He sreemed surprised The “kangarootng” of the apostie| when De Williams arrested hit ‘eant tank, where| but said that tt was a task which) Lord's will that he « morning with | pany fficer to § Although no | res by the men In t he is Incarcer Was entered joyt enthusiasm. med to be the hould accom. attle without outsiders were present it In under-| Mra Schmidt ca too, and they ntood that the incident will bec ¢ by side and talked religtor 4 tradition which will be han luring the trip from one city to the down from year to year in the jail, | other The minister was fined “ail the| Nelson f# a lar rather handsome Money he had with him” by the|man. When seen in the county Jail judge of the kangaroo court this morning h it tiation fee, Hin availat his fate and said was {t is reported, consisted felt half dollar mter-|in the jatl he meant to “he could, and if all the boys The arrest of conde the result | would stand for it, would hold regu Hf recent sensational d ments |lar services, th a divorce suit) brought by hi He has no Bible with him, so figainst his long suff wife, al-|Mr, Roucke, sentenced to 16 years Hging cruelty. She ¢ it and | f bbery, but who is nm i was given a dor ound | religiously ined fered of adultery, having for|him the w f 2 months her husband and Mra. Paul-|and a copy ine Schmidt, also a atreet ev Hist, | “The pr had been fving together aw man and | the folloy wife and had t proclaiming that |t it wan the will of the Lord that they] “The reasor should do so. somes It was at the instigattc Neterer, who heard the cas Jindignant at the way Mrs and her children had bean that a int was aw i nt for publica hat Tam being per I preach a pure, traight, simple gospel, and don't harge anything for it. I have at hated by the church peor ple for this reason and I be they have be inatrumental in aueing Japanese Populace Goading Its Government tof Hostilities and Wise Men in Diplomatic Circles That a Declaration of War Is Inevitable iplomatic source that @ again, wh harged with « ery, was Mre. & it in the mother of six arrested tn T ma yesterday afte small children and hy hual a has " ompany with Mre Pa brought suit for d) ° against her Behr the woman to whon he|neming Nelson a co-re ndent. | | enya he is Tie the even of the| tare, Behentts.caed maceie and Lord, by I uty Sheriff Willan er ut ¢ wians, who are | that the Seattle National hm t charged with the full face Ostrander's notes, which # to have reek | | IKE WAR fa Reports from all news centers on) TROUBLE FOR ALL ig the continent are universally omin-| RERLIN, Dec. 90—taskall ous of war in the Orient. | wil! result in endlews § England, Prence naive ink cant, will probably be imbrogtio. A Paris dispatch th afternoon | says that the French minister at Tokio has received the assurance japs DEMAND EAR |from the Japanese government that) onpon. Dee, 2. ot again ncy of ite report slight hope is still cherished that |?) one one ae n | the sitvation is desperate, though |. peace is possible, not eae | Abe | January 10. j | WAR ALMOST CERTAIN |FEARS” WAR BERLIN, Dec. 30—Die Lokal An-| WASHINGTON, D. @ While a |xwiger says that the Japanese have| yon wht ntatiggs of the powers at Tokio that the situation |‘ is unbearable, and that Japan must |), jstrike if Russia does not accept the | ion ons submitted. out t that Roneme 1 by Japaty Dit took oveasion to 4 er the dittl and Rus«ia, He ued to hope for informed the repre: * | - president of my art Regarding this charge | Y r I will only say that I am jr onal dank, to sot guilty. I i adut- | indebtednesm. tery, 1 bettey a notes were the Bible says, and consider; lknowa anything * |that this means that all who ha transfer of the} |the spirit of God in their heast ar to have married to h other lent and the result of Now about my from the tweent the officers of old woman. ould (cheat the storkholders af with her longer, because she |™ercial National bank, would 1 nm to ty tonshinen, 6 As a result, the petl though I pleaded with her night and laims the me | Ga. . 1 that there ie (Bigned) P. H. NELSON.” | left to pay the indedy Mra, Schmidt, a pale. \ looking | defunct bank, which $70,000. Uttle wor hardly 10-year-o} vistte If the funds had been | morning. greeted aged. Brown stete, have been a surplus ty the debts were paid, to Bed warmly, and sh stand by bir expression and tattioal |"™mon« the stockholders Ef ra as the man she to be her pa dls i nana ae . spiritual husband. ‘to get together a q - Mra. Schinidt 4# about to become a]fectors of the Commercial a ‘S mother and this fact is set forth. mm |al bank, to ask them to : her husband's dive omyfiaint. The} accounting from the é or Neisor itminary hear. | tonal bank sage goer gle aren gg ay: Brown demande the aj of a receiver to assume ehf |the remaining property of tg y | meretal tional ‘bank, and 3 accounting from J, P, Gleaie W. Andrews, of the “ nal bank. He demand@ E & s taken before Justice Cann this afternoon, and his bon | fixed $1,000, Hts hearing waa set for J CHARRED ‘*ay. aun -—-—— MA Livyd A Smith pleaded not nt of a Smty in the supertor court this afters }s to the two charges against, her rece for the long defunct pot obtaining money un | tenses by selling worthle: mercial Nattonal in whieh | A sult for the appo! “r false pre oll stock. ‘The fair widow returned from San » Where she has been visiting, « t s of fraud and] ¢, nsational ision ands ot} allowed to wander about the funds ar Boe de very much at she pleaseg, National bank ~ consent af pondamen, Herman J. n, a shareholder in 7 i : ndar in about tw ‘oncern, hat when the Com- bank went out of in 1894 ty which was ple to pay ite This property, it iss the form | me business was por weeks, worth $1 lal i 5 1 jed, was tukned over to the Sea |Natignal bank to protect pr | Edward O’Brien was arrested thir 4, and any surplus funds w afternoon on suspicion of being one be repaid to the stockholders, pro/of the pickpockets who Were Worlts igen ing on Washington street last night, oy ting to Lampman, who lost a gold wately 1 atten: na » $7,000 worth positively tdentifiee O'Brien as Ge of promissory by nman who robbed him,