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922: 460:. Lamp operator William McMullen testified that the lamp was placed too close to the curtain but that stage managers had failed to offer a solution when he had first reported the problem. McMullen clapped at the fire when it started, but the flame quickly raced up the curtain and beyond his reach. Theater fireman William Sallers tried to douse the fire with the Kilfyre canisters, but by that time it had spread to the fly gallery high above the stage where several thousand square feet of highly flammable painted canvas scenery flats were hung. The stage manager tried to lower the 386: 394: 516:
unfastened the hinges from the outside, allowing the actors and stagehands to escape. As the vents above the stage were nailed or wired shut, the fireball instead traveled outward, ducking under the stuck asbestos curtain and streaking toward the vents behind the dress circle and gallery 50 feet (15 m) away. The hot gases and flames passed over the heads of those in the orchestra seats and incinerated flammable materials in the gallery and dress circle levels, including patrons still trapped in those areas.
713: 1003: 246:, were either not present or not working at the time of the fire. Other contributing factors included a lack of exit signs, emergency lighting, or fire preparedness; doors that opened inward or were latched shut; confusing exit routes; icy fire escapes; and the presence of ornamental doors. The Iroquois Memorial Hospital was built as a memorial to the fire, and Chicago held an annual memorial service. The Iroquois fire prompted widespread implementation of the 1017: 572: 40: 402: 508:, with forcing open another door. A third door was opened either by brute force or by a blast of air, but most of the other doors could not be opened. Some patrons panicked, crushing or trampling others in a desperate attempt to escape. Many were killed while trapped in dead ends or while trying to open windows that appeared to be doors. 649:
in a fire." Curtain material was rendered irrelevant by the 500-square-foot (46 m) triangular gap beneath the partly jammed curtain that functioned as a flue for the back-drafted fireball that hurled into the auditorium at 3:50 pm. Eyewitnesses testified that the curtain was still in place when the fireball passed through the gap.
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During performances, some lesser-trafficked stairways were blocked with iron gates to prevent people with inexpensive tickets from taking seats in other parts of the theater. On the day of the fire, there were no empty seats. Had such gates been located at primary stairways, the death toll would have
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Some exit doors opened inward into the auditorium and others employed a bascule-type European latch unfamiliar to many people that prevented the door from opening when the crowd pressed against it. When people were able to pull the doors open enough to escape, some people were then wedged in the door
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The dancers on stage were also forced to flee, along with the performers backstage and in the numerous dressing rooms. Several performers and stagehands escaped through the building's main rear exit, which consisted of a large set of stock double doors normally used for moving large fly sceneries and
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Foy, who had been preparing to take the stage, attempted to calm the crowd from the stage, first ensuring that his young son was in the care of a stagehand. He later wrote, "It struck me as I looked out over the crowd during the first act that I had never before seen so many women and children in the
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The theatre victims were buried in over a dozen of the Chicago area cemeteries including the largest cemeteries Rosehill, at least 50 to Graceland, and many to Oakwoods. Catholics went to St. Boniface, Mt. Carmel and over 40 to Calvary in Evanston. Others went to Mt. Olive, some 30 to Forest Home,
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analyzed a piece of the material after the fire: " was largely wood pulp. By mixing pulp with asbestos fiber, the life of the curtain is prolonged, the cost is cheapened, and the wire foundation may be dispensed with... It results in a curtain that may get inside city ordinances, but is of no value
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Those in the orchestra section exited into the foyer and out of the front door, but those in the dress circle and gallery who escaped the fireball could not reach the foyer because stairwells were blocked by high layers of fallen victims. Although iron grates that blocked secondary stairways during
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described the marker on December 31, 1911 as depicting "the Motherhood of the World protecting the children of the universe, the body of a child borne on a litter by herculean male figures, with a bereaved mother bending over it." The bronze memorial was removed from the Iroquois Hospital when the
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that confines fire to the stage area and smoke doors that allow smoke and heat to escape through the roof above the stage, combine to increase fire safety in theaters. This arrangement creates negative pressure; the stage area becomes a chimney, and fresh, breathable air is sucked through the exit
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William Sallers discussed the deficiencies. Sallers did not report the matter directly to fire chief William Musham, concerned that he would be dismissed by the syndicate that owned the theater. When Captain Jennings reported the matter to his commanding officer, battalion chief John J. Hannon, he
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After the fire, the Iroquois Theatre was renamed and reopened as the Hyde & Behman's Music Hall in September 1904. In October 1905, it was rechristened as the Colonial Theatre. It remained active until the building was demolished in 1925. In 1926, the Oriental Theatre was built on the site. In
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Iron fire escapes on the north wall led to at least 125 deaths. People were trapped on all levels because the icy, narrow stairs and ladders were dangerous and because smoke and flames blocked the way down. The stairs on one fire-escape exit from the second-floor gallery had not been adjusted to
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Of the approximately 300 actors, dancers and stagehands, only five people died: aerialist Nellie Reed, an actor in a bit part, an usher and two female attendants. Reed's role was to fly as a fairy over the audience on a trolley wire, showering them with pink carnations. She was trapped above the
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or telephone. The CFD's Engine 13 was alerted to the fire by a stagehand who had been ordered to run from the burning theater to the nearest firehouse. On the way to the scene, at approximately 3:33 p.m., a member of Engine 13 activated an alarm box to call additional units. Initial efforts
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that required separate stairways and exits for each balcony. The design proved disastrous: people exiting the gallery encountered a crowd leaving the balcony level, and people descending from the upper levels met the orchestra-level patrons in the foyer. The backstage areas were unusually large.
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Many performers escaped through the coal hatch and through windows in the dressing rooms, and others tried to escape via the west stage door, which opened inward and became jammed as actors frantically pressed toward the door. A passing railroad agent saw the crowd pressing against the door and
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The theater had only one entrance. A broad stairway that led from the foyer to the balcony level was also used to reach the stairs to the gallery level. Theater designers claimed that this allowed patrons to "see and be seen" regardless of the price of their seats. However, the common stairway
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Mass panic ensued and many of those trapped inside tried climbing over piles of bodies in order to escape. Corpses were stacked ten feet high around some of the blocked exits. The victims were asphyxiated by the fire, smoke and gases or were crushed by the onrush of others behind them. It is
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was also in the cast as Imer Dasher. Attendance since opening night had been disappointing as the result of poor weather, labor unrest and other factors. The December 30 performance drew a much larger sellout audience. Tickets were sold for every seat in the house, plus hundreds more for the
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performances (to prevent patrons in the cheaper seats from sneaking downstairs to the more expensive lower levels) were still in place, first responders found very few victims near the gates. The largest death toll was at the base of stairways, where hundreds of people were trampled,
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to contain the fire was unsuccessful. Despite attempts by Foy to calm the crowd, audience members frantically rushed for the exits, only to find that fire exits were locked or hidden. The largest death toll was at the base of stairways, where hundreds of people were trampled,
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The curtain was not fireproof. Curtains made with asbestos interwoven with wire create a strong and effective barrier against fire. The asbestos curtain at the Iroquois not only failed to lower but also proved to be both weak and flammable. Chemist Gustave J. Johnson of the
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ordered all theaters in Chicago closed for six weeks after the fire. As a result of public outrage, many were charged with crimes, including Harrison. Most charges were dismissed three years later because of the delaying tactics of the syndicate's lawyers and their use of
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actors fleeing the conflagration. As more people escaped via the theater cellar through the sewers, Howey reported his scoop; the story, one of the biggest in Chicago's history, established his reputation for speed, resourcefulness, and skillful writing. Howey moved to
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First elected in 1897 and reelected in 1899, 1901, and 1903, Harrison did not run for reelection in 1905. His 1907 bid to return to the mayor's office failed. However, he was again elected mayor in 1911 (to a four-year term) but was defeated for re-election in 1915.
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accommodate a last-minute engineering alteration during construction that raised the level of the gallery floor inside the auditorium. As a result, the fire-escape landing was two feet lower than the theater floor, causing people to stumble and fall onto the landing.
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Despite being billed as "absolutely fireproof", the Iroquois Theatre, which opened a month before the fire, exhibited numerous deficiencies in fire readiness that contributed to the high death toll. Some of these deficiencies were known by city officials tasked with
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audience. Even the gallery was full of mothers and children." Foy was widely considered a hero after the fire for his courage in remaining on stage and pleading with patrons not to panic even as large chunks of burning scenery landed around him.
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dedicated all eight front-page above-the-fold columns to Harrison's alleged role in the disaster, with headlines "Harrison to blame" and "Harrison warned", with a two-column wide illustration of the mayor under the center headline "Remember!".
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all around the country and in some cities in Europe. All theater exits were required to be clearly marked and the doors configured so that, even if they could not be pulled open from the outside, they could be pushed open from the inside.
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The owners of the theater claimed that the 30 exits would allow everyone inside to escape the building within five minutes. Audiences in 1903 were aware of the hazards of fires in theaters, especially after at least 384 people died in the
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By this time, many of the patrons on all levels were attempting to flee the theater. Some had found the fire exits hidden behind draperies on the north side of the building but discovered that they could not open the unfamiliar
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doors into the audience area. At the Iroquois, the smoke doors above the stage were fastened closed. This meant that smoke flowed out of the building through many of the same exits through which people were trying to escape.
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and Dearborn Street. The syndicate that bankrolled its construction chose the location specifically to attract women visiting the city on day trips who would be more comfortable attending a theater near the police-patrolled
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The exterior of the Iroquois was intact and the theater reopened nine months later as Hyde & Behman's Music Hall. The building later reopened as the Colonial Theater, which was demolished in 1925 to make way for the
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employees had been assigned the job of obtaining photographs of the victims, and the issue of the following day (New Year's Day 1903) featured a great deal more victim photos than any other Chicago newspaper.
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areas at the back of the theater. Many of the estimated 2,100–2,200 patrons attending the matinee were children. The standing-room areas were so crowded that some patrons sat in the aisles, blocking the exits.
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or telephone, which hampered initial rescue efforts. It is estimated that 575 people were killed on the day of the fire, with dozens dying afterward; the vast majority of those killed were audience members.
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This is called a "still and box alarm" in Chicago; a "still alarm" is one where the fire alarm boxes remain "still." Alarms received by telephone are considered still alarms, so the term remains in use
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until it was installed in its current location, near the building's LaSalle Street entrance, in 1960. The memorial was rededicated on November 5, 2010, and a descriptive plaque was donated by the
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The screams of the children for their mothers and mothers for their children I shall carry in my memory to my dying day. – Frank Slosson, Secretary-Treasurer of the Bain Wagon Works, survivor
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Following the fire, it was required that an asbestos fire curtain (or sheet-metal screen) be raised before each performance and lowered afterward to separate the audience from the stage.
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on fire-escape exits, and doors were concealed behind drapery. On the ground floor, the drapery was intact after the fire, but in the balconies, drapery was destroyed by the fireball.
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set pieces or props into the backstage area. When the door was opened, an icy wind blast rushed inside, fueling the flames with air and causing the fire to grow substantially larger.
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became involved when an officer patrolling the theater district saw people emerge from the building in a panic, some with clothing on fire. The officer reported the incident from a
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in residential houses. It consisted of a 2 in × 24 in (5.1 cm × 61.0 cm) tube of tin filled with about 3 pounds (1.4 kg) of white powder, mostly
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building north of the theater tried bridging the gap with a ladder and then with some boards between the rooftops, saving those few able to manage the makeshift crossover.
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printed an eight-page special edition that hit newsstands on the morning of December 31, 1903. The entire front page consisted of lists of the dead and missing. Twenty
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and Grand Stair Hall. The second level, the dress circle or (first) balcony, had more than 400 seats. The third level, the gallery, had about 500 seats. There were four
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and went on to become a managing editor of several newspapers in the Hearst chain. He was later immortalized as the scheming, ruthless managing editor Walter Burns in
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arch. A chemist who later tested part of the curtain stated that it was composed mainly of wood pulp mixed with asbestos and would have been "of no value in a fire."
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The fire was widely covered by the American and international press, and backlash from the scandal likely was a factor thwarting Harrison's bid to become the
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estimated that 575 people were killed on the day of the fire, and at least 30 more died of injuries over the following weeks. Many of the dead were buried in
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Walking the streets of Chicago near the theater, Howey was startled to see a knight and three elves climb out of a manhole. He had stumbled upon four
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focused on the people trapped on the fire escapes. The alley to the north of the theater, known as Couch Place, was icy, narrow and full of smoke.
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opening as people continued to push on the door. Today, exit doors open outward, so that people trying to escape will tend to hold the doors open.
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Another result was that all doors in public buildings must open in the direction of egress, but that practice did not become national until the
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assistant city editor Edgar Sisson situated himself at Dyche's Drug Store on Randolph and State near the Iroquois Theatre, directing dozens of
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many to Jewish Waldheim, Mt. Hope, Elmwood in River Grove and others. In 1908, Montrose Cemetery erected a memorial monument to the victims.
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on the roof of the stage, which were intended to open automatically during a fire and allow smoke and heat to escape, were fastened closed.
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There were several ornamental "doors" that looked like exits but were not. Two hundred people died in one passageway that was not an exit.
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musical number "In the Pale Moonlight", with the stage illuminated by blue-tinted spotlights to suggest a night scene. Sparks from an
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toured the Iroquois during construction and noted "the absence of an intake, or stage draft shaft; the exposed reinforcement of the (
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over the stage, but later investigation showed that the curtain had been blocked by a light reflector that protruded from under the
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From 1885, Chicago police had matrons to work with female prisoners; the first "policewomen" in the city were appointed in 1913.
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At about 3:15 p.m., shortly after the beginning of the second act, eight men and eight women were performing the double-
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stage while waiting for her entrance and fell during the fire. She died from burns and internal injuries three days later.
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fire curtain, but it snagged. Early reports stated that the asbestos curtain was stopped by the trolley wire that carried
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to complete required drawings on time. Upon opening, the theater was lauded by drama critics; Walter K. Hill wrote in the
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For nearly a century, the Iroquois Theatre fire was the deadliest single-building disaster in American history. Only the
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newspaper as a reporter when he made his reputation by scooping competitors in reporting the Iroquois Theatre Fire.
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Dressing rooms were on five levels, and an elevator was available to transport actors down to the stage level. The
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The Iroquois Theater advertised itself as 'absolutely fireproof,' it went up in flames six weeks after opening
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Theater manager Will Davis was arrested in January 1904 and charged with criminal neglect, but was acquitted.
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The curtain was not tested periodically, and it became stuck when the theater personnel tried to lower it.
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The fire broke out at about 3:15 p.m. while the Iroquois presented a matinee performance of the musical
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was built as a memorial to the fire. The hospital held a bronze bas-relief memorial by sculptor
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The risks inherent in flammable scenery and props were recognized even in 1903. Two features, a
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created a panel to investigate the causes of the fire, publishing the results in January 1904.
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featured a story about the Chicago coroner's jury findings headlined "Harrison arrested".
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On Wednesday, December 30, 1903, the Iroquois presented a matinee performance of the popular
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on September 11, 2001, claimed more lives in a disaster affecting an American building.
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could not be used in the alley and black nets, concealed by the smoke, proved useless.
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been higher; first responders reported that few victims were found at the iron gates.
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Chicago held an annual memorial service at City Hall until the last survivors died.
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Engine 13 was then located at 209 North Dearborn Street. It has since moved to
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All five were buried in the Waldheim Jewish Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois.
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had been bribed with free tickets to overlook code violations. Chicago mayor
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curtains, which stage managers were unable to douse; an attempt to lower the
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was told that nothing could be done as the theater already had a fireman.
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as Sister Anne, a role that showcased his physical-comedy skills. Dancer
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Theatergoers climbing along ladders above the alley (artist's conception)
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who refused to open a door. He was able to open the door because his
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Despite being billed as "absolutely fireproof" in advertisements and
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was the attorney for the theater and its manager was Will J. Davis.
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at home had a similar lock. Houseman credited his friend outfielder
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and inadequacies in the city's building and safety ordinances.
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building was demolished in 1951. It was placed in storage in
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A horse-drawn ambulance is filled with the bodies of victims.
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The Iroquois fire prompted widespread implementation of the
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newspaper. Coverage by Chicago newspapers of what became a
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The onsite firefighting equipment consisted of six Kilfyre
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Panicked theatergoers trying to flee (artist's conception)
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reporters, some of whom removed bodies from the theater.
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Five years after the fire, Andrew Kircher, founder of
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reporter E.O. Phillips lost three nieces to the fire.
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
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The dedication was attended by members of the 294:The Iroquois had a capacity of 1,602 with three 1047:, Massachusetts, November 1942 – 492 fatalities 588:, Saint Boniface, Mount Greenwood, Mount Hope, 405:Dan McAvoy, the actor who played Mr. Blue Beard 306:on the first level and two on the level above. 2309:Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 2297:Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 3643: 3378: 2434: 2125:"Historic City Hall Plaque to be Rededicated" 44:The Iroquois Theatre, shortly before the fire 8: 1165:"World Trade Center death locations revised" 621:Protecting the audience from hazards onstage 262:The Iroquois Theatre was located at 26 West 185:of 1876, which claimed at least 278 lives. 32: 2338:. Eastland Memorial Society. 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Iroquois Theater

Chicago
Coordinates
41°53′5″N 87°37′43″W / 41.88472°N 87.62861°W / 41.88472; -87.62861
arc light
building fire
Chicago
Illinois
Brooklyn Theatre fire
destruction of the World Trade Center
public safety
Mr. Blue Beard
Eddie Foy
arc lamp
muslin
safety curtain
crushed
asphyxiated
fire-alarm box
fire dampers
panic bar
Oriental Theatre
Randolph Street
State Street
Loop shopping district
Benjamin Marshall
New York Clipper
Variety
audience levels

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