the] it was a to the t now on strike is AIX 5 7 £ ; & City hall. : .R. has issued a writ against Pontypool railway to from ex-propriating it has no authority ing worse and the rail- ways are being alarmed. power- ful transport Lansdowne consumed all f yesterday in making one round tip Loom Detroit slip to Windsor. {The Canadian Pacific steamers Michi- gan and Ontario were all dav making one trip "each. The Grand Trunk boats, however, had but little trouble. = g Tr. 2, Didn't Kiss Enough. John Slavin, the come- who takes the part of " " in "The un Girl" had a difference wi the mana t after the last night, and with drew from the company, which left at 8:15 o'clock for Ogdens- burg, N.¥Y., without him. It seems he was criticised for not enough of the girls when he first came ul the stage in the first Spon and of os. performing the warm osculation in a manner. No SEE PIPE A EIA IRIE Ea EFSF FIEEEREEAIETTI E44 4. The Magic Lantern Exploded. Regina, N.W.T., Dec. 31. -- Prof. Coard, of the Experimental farm, was badly burned about the face and hands while operating a gasoline ma- gic lantern at a concert in St. Paul's church. The machine exploded, cuus ing great consternation in the crowd. A Montrealer Sentenced. Fort William, Dec. %1.--John Ryan, Montreal, was sentenced to twenty- five months' imprisonment in King- J ston penitentiary for the theft of $5 from the Queen's hotel. Joseph Doyle, Belleville, is a mem- { ber of "A Country Girl" ra com- , which performed here last night. tly 'Reoves, recently to the illness of his father at Grant Hamilton Oil Owing Bellevi le, Mr, Doyle was unable to onto, has been ap. | appear here. agent of the Great | The officers of Court Earl Roberts, ioe » of Win. [1.O.F. were installed Wednesday even- lor, Kingston and | ing, many vi:iting foresters witnessing A y the ceremonies. An oyster supper was skins (beauties) for | afterwards served. living * coats, at | George McCowan is dispensing his usual New Year's eve gifts of bread to of the con. | 311 poor people who call at his fac- tory between three and eight o'clock to-day. The fast train from the west was two hotirs late this afternoon. | i Judge Britton is in the city, ad Happy New Year, Ladies' Skirts, that we have place on sale at special prices a nent of TWEEDS in lengths of yards. Lengths required for will give you an oppertunity to quality at what you have been or goods. ] that his daughter, Kath- , a bright ht young maid of four | mediately afterward a cry Theatre, Chicago, were touching tender chords . Mrs, Middleton, 49 Cler- received a telegram early ; morning from her son, "A. Middleton, St. Louis, Mo., years, was in the theatre fire, the remains would be taken for interment. us al the information which conveyed, but it was ufficient to tell the sad tale. The de: ceasod lady was visiting her cousin, John Henderson, in Chicago, advan of the matinee + | and took tage '| performance to visit the ill-fated the- 2 re. The two cousins were to have ¢ started for St. Louis to-day to spend the opening of the New Year there; -coming, indeed, which took place. to-day. Mr. Middle- 'Was One of the Victims. effects of the appalling fire i) ton was at St. Louis, but a telegram apprised him of the sad fate of his ter, and he hastened to Chicago to take charge of the body, reaching there early on Thursday morning. The late Miss Middleton was very well known here, having spent the sumnier of 1901 here with her grand- mother and aunts. The greatest sym- pathy is fédt for the parents and friends of the for he pa young wo- man. -- - The First News Here. The first intelligence received here of the dreadful calamity came through telegrams received by members of "The Country Girl" opera company, playing in the Grand Opera House. Séveral members of this company had friends playing in the Iroquois The- atre, and the telegrams were sent to apprise them of the escape of their friends. AN AWFUL FIRE. (Continued from Page 1.) peribed the scene upon the stage and the cause of the fire as follows : "I was standing in the wings when I heard the explosion, and then im- of fire all] over the theatre. I saw the curtain was ablaze, and at once I ran for the fire curtain. We got it half way down when the wind rushing in from the broken skylight bellied it out so that it caught, and we could not budge it. With the stage hands I climbed to where it was suspended, and to gether we tried to push it down Our efforts were futile, and seeing that no human power. could move that fire curtain, and that the stage was a mass of flames, I turned my attention to the actors. The women were frantic, and the men not much better. [I stood at the stairway leading to the dressing rooms where the chorus people were located and kept some from 'going up to - get their street clothes. As the others came down I foreed them to leave the building. I don't know how they ever got out, all those girls and men, for the stage entrance was black- ed by flames." Among the hundreds of persons who rushed 'to the rescue when the call of fire was heard on the streets, was Bishop Samuel Fellows, who happened to be passing the theatre. He made his way through the smoke to the top gallery, and assisted in carrying out the victims. "God forbid, that I ever again see such a heartrending sight," said the bishop last night."] have been in wars and upon the bloody field of battle, but I have never seen anything half so gruesome as the sight in that bal cony, There was a pile of twisted and bleeding bodies, ten feet high, with blackened faces and remnants of char- red clothing clinging to them. Some were alive and moaning in their agony. Others, and by far the greater num- ber, were dead." Presence Of Children. It was the presence of the children, hundreds of them in the audience, and the efforts if their frantic mothers to save them, that caused much of the pandemonium. Alexander H. his little daughter, Margaret with a little friend, mn charge of a maid to see the performance, drove frantically to the burning theatre, but the children had been saved. Mr. Revell then hastened to the theatre and participated in the rescue. "l worked in the upper balconies" said he. "The sight of those women and their little children with clenched fists, raised 'as though trying to beat their way-to safety and stricken down in the very act, is too horrible to attempt to describe. 1 assisted the policemen and firemen in carrying down more than twenty bodies." Sheriff Parrett and a score = of deputies from his office assisted "in carrying out the injured people, and in keeping order among the mob who thronged the streets. "On all sides were heaps of mangled and charred humanity" said Sheriff Barrett. "We carried out so many injured and dead that at last they grew so numerous that we were unable to keep track of them." E. Leavitt, the ticket taker at theatre, who was at the main the en trance, said : "I heard the ery and saw the mob rushing for the door. When the first of the frenzied audi ence reached the outside door, 1 tried to calm them, but in - less than a minute 1 saw it was no use and | burst open the doors. Then 1 ran for the first alarm box." He described the panic as terrible. Waiters and cooks from Thompson's restaurant rescued fifteen people by raising a ladder from the roof of a shed to a window in the rear of the building, around which a mass of screaming women and children were congregated. Marvellous Escape. . One cof the marvellbus escapes was that of the ; members of a theatre party given dy Miss Charlotte &. Pla- mondon, of Chicago, made up of a society people, Miss Flamondon said! "I could see little girls and boys in the orchestra chairs pointing upwards to the slowly moving live of flame along the cur. tein. One of the stage hands and Eddie Foy requested the audience to keep their seats. Fixes of the smol- detiag curtain fell into the orchestra pit. | looked over the faces of the audicne and remarkéd how many children were preofent, Their faces were Aiflad with interest as they watch- ed the burning curtain. Just then the people in the 'balsony rose to their feet and crowded to obtaia a better view of the fire. Eddi: Foy rushed to the. centie of the stage again and waved his arms for the peopl: to he seated. At that instant a woman in the rear of the place screamed "Fire," and the entire audience of women and children rose to their fect filled with uncontrollable terror, "In another instant there was a roar made by the thousands of peo- ple as they rushed madly from the The party was number of prominent = 7 "On the stage the chorus 'girls turp- lof hunmn beings, each one apparently Revell, who had sent | ed to flee. Several of them fell fo the floor and 1 saw the men carry them off the stage. Miss Elie Elmore was the first to leave our hox. The un- holstering on the railing was then on fire and we were compellxd to brush iragments of the burning curtain from our clothing. Then there was a great roar and a great draught of air and the flames shot out over the parquette until it seemed to me as though they must reach the front walls. There vere but few men in the audience, but I'saw several of them pulling and ptehing women and children aside as they fought like maniacs to reach the exite. 1 saw a number of little chil- dren trampled. under foot and none of them 'arose again. In the balcony the scene 'was beyond my power to de- scribe. There was a big black crush fighting 'everybody else. The balcony was so steep that many fell before they had left the first four rows of seats. Thy exits to the fire esmpes were chokal and those in the rear rushed with all the strength they pos- sessed upon\those who were negrér the doorway, It was almost intre- cible the sped with which the flames ran through thé scenery and blthouth it was but a seond after, Miss more, in jumping over the railing of our box to the aisle in front of the stage was a mass of flames. As started up the aisk a man rushed in- to me and knocked me down. I was go terror stricken \that I gave way and sank into one'of the orchestra chairs and after that\l "hardly remem- ber anything. In. som§ way I reached the main entrance, wo men were hizhing against the ws and shat- tering the ghss and pels in their attempts to afford a yr space for exit. Many fe'l as they %ached the doors, where a few steps hore would have carried them to fresh air and safety. As I look at it nop, T must have been walking on prostate bod- ies as I struggled through W%e open- ing. All of our party ested in about the same manner as I dif." Locked In Arms. About a score of people in the see- ond balcony were saved by firdien, who took them through the roof 'wd carried them down ladders in the rer of the building. five children of H. 8. Van | Kenosha (probable), father separated from them and is among the injured; C. W. Turbush and fam- ily; Mildred Merriman, three years old, rescued by father, but died cn reach ing the sireet; Bernice Balloy, A. M. Mandel; C. A. Winslow, Three Rivers," Minn.; Donald Wells, Burr Scott, Fur- netta Peterson; Harvey Kisley, St Louis; Thomas Coutell, Emperley Hall, Thomas J. Flannigan, Indianapolis, Ind; Mrs. M. A. Henry, Rose E Rogers, H. P. Moore, C. 1. Cooper, May Curran, "Martin," a boy of fitoen; E. Moses, H. Ww. Willige, B. Regen , Ella Linden, Nuir; Mrs. NR Richard and Allen Holst, Harold Martin, Pullman 11; John, Holland; Lulu Shabbard, W. 1 Sprang, Charles H. Koll, Mrs. Daw- son, Whitefox, a boy; Mr. Butt, Rob- ert Martin, young son of Principal Martin, of Pullman school; John Van Ingen, Kenosha, Wis; Walter Bessing- er, died at hospital; Margaret Buer- ,_of e man, died at hospital; Mrs. Leo Wolff, Hammond, Ind., died at hos- pital; Alice Kausman, died at hos pital; Helen Howard, died at hospital; Helen Cooper; died at hospital; B. E. Gould, died at hospital; Mortimer Eld- ridge, Helen Beyersloth, Evanston, HL; Rev. Henry L. Richardson, Louis Kisner and wife, said to have belong- ed to Plue Beard company, Ctiago; Rev. George H. Dudley, pastor of Al Saints' Episcopal church; Walter B. Zeisler, son of Dr. Zeisle of the University of Chicago, ts now in Europe. Seriously Injured. Following ia a partial list of the seriously injured: Enmma Tubbs, wife of Chatles Tubbs, brother of Western Union Superintendent, and daughter, Anna; Mrs. C. Kranz, Racine, Wis., will die; Mrs. A. Bressen, Herman Deil, Mrs. Wigwall, may diz; William McLaughlin, nephew of © Dr. Frank Gunsaulus; Mrs. Malian, R. A. Evans, member Bluebeard company; Dorothy Marlow, pony ballet; Anna Bella Whit ford, queen of fairies; Miss Mariella Morgan, Detroit, may die; Lester Doty, seven years old, son of L. V. Doty, of lilinois Steel company; Mrs Henry Miller, Ontonagon, Mich.; H. K. Chester, wife and two children; Earl Hennessey, H. S. Van Ingine a1 wife; --. Pridmore, -- Chapman; M. S. Schalk; will die; William Patten, will die; Mrs. C. Kimball, will die; Susan Beahl, will die; Jessie Phelin, will die; Margaret Buehrman, will die; Richard Emelang Standhand, will die; Mrs. M. Lehman; Mrs: Frances Dehman, will die; Miss Carrie Anderson; Mrs. Mabel Midmillan, fatal; Fred Crawford and William Patterson, young sons of C. Patterson, of the Pullman Palace Car company; . Pomeroy; Miss Muyre; Mrs, C. H, Pier; Mrs. Josephine Spen- ter; A. C. Jones, usher, will die; Leo mrd Diffendorii, aged sixteen, of Lin celn, 11; Louise Dee, will die. Over 700 Dead. Chicago, Dec. 31.--(1 o'clock p.m.)-- Up to this hour 564 bodies have been taken from the ruined theatre. The dead list is now placed at not leks than 690, and may go over 700. There was no fire escapes at the Iroquois Theatre, Chicago. Balconies were in place, but no ladders. To-day brought on the legacy cf yesterday's monumental calamity, and the prediction that the lst of fatal ities in the Iroquéis fire will run over 600 when information is complete. The latest statement of death at the var- ious morgues is 564, and it is stated at the various hospitals and hotels, to Two bodies tightly locked in eadh other's arms, those of young ladies apparently about twenty-five years of age, were found in one end of the orchestra pit. They must have fallen there from the balcony above. The body of a dark-haired girl, apparently twelve years old, was found impaled on the iron railing of the first bal- cony. She had evidently been thrown over from the second balcony above, With all of its clothing torn from it but a pair of baby shoes, the body of a child, about one year old, was " Louise Bushnell, found in a far corner of the second balcony. It had evidently been knock- ed from its mother's arms, and was trampled 'beyond all recognition. While scores of men were busy car- ring out the dead and injured, others fortunately ' few, in number, searched the aisles and seats for valuables. Two men were found who had provid- ed themselves with baskets and were filling them with the property of the dead. During the evening the police arrested over a dozen men accused of being thieves and pickpockets, Some Of Those Who Perished. Following is a partial list of those who perished : Hortense Lang, aged 16; Irene Lang, aged 11, 'sister of above; Miss Abbie Raymer, daughter of Alderman Ray- mer; E. «A, Wilson; Mrs. W. T. Marsh, Miss Gladys Streiton, Alpena, Mich; . A, Lake, 35 years old; Miss a Pai aged 18 vears; J. Rattey£ died at hospital; two boys with him thought to have perished; Mrs. Patrick P. O'Donnell, wife of President of O'Donnell and Duer Brewing company; Mrs, Bessie Clinger, Otto- Wattman, R. H. Coults, Miss D. Howard, Miss Ross, daughter of Dr. Ross; Edith Horton, Helen Mc- Caughan, Mrs. ¥. A. Morrill, Mrs. A, Sullivan, Mrs. Minwegan, wife of Ald- ermnan John Minwegan; Mrs. Har- baugh, Ann Fitzgibbon, C. W. For- bush and family. Anna Sterling; three stage hands, Floraline, a German aer- ial trapeze performer; Ethel Black- man, thirteen years old; Mrs. Caven augh, unknown boy, eight years old; two unknown women, met death jump- ing from rear fire escape; Louise Buch- ray, Marie Walsh, Mrs. James D. Ma loney, Miss Spencer, Ethel Jones, daughter of S. P. Jones, attended the theatre with brothers and sisters, two of whom are missing, and three ac- counted for; reported at Vaughan's seed store, where body was taken, that the mother, an invalid, dropped dead when she received the tidings of daughter's death; Mrs. John C. Kling, Lillian Phillipson, six years old; boy, lived at Lafayette, Ind; Mrs. Fore man, William Rattley, J. C. Johnson, W. M. Reed, Waukegan, lll; Hoyt Fox, Mrs. L. R. Butler, 8. Wardman, William M. Reed, Waukegan, Ill; Edmund W. Morton, -- Newby, J. A. Keckens, Mrs. Stern, H. Donaldson, the Rev. Howard Studley, pastor of All Strangers' church; Miss J,© H. Dodd, Delaware, O.; Miss V. Delee, daughter of the late lieutenant of which the injured were removed, that of the 157 people who were injured probably one-third cannot live. The nissing, to-day, were estimated at 314 Lit, it is expected, many of these will he accounted for, probably a large ma 9ity of them. It is no extrava- Z2&ce of langage to say that the city is stunned by the over-whelming tragdy which was enacted in the the atréivhere was housed "" Mr. Blue- beard,' and which became a chamber of homyrs. Tht is the deepest woe in hungeds of hothes to-day, deep sor- row ini thousand others and a pity beyond Le power of words to convey in all. i Ofer Sympathy. London, De. 31.--The lord mayor of London, Sirf James T. Ritchie, trans- mits the follg ing : "The citizens of London offer their deep sympathy \nd sincere condolence with the Amerign people in the aw- ful loss of life ifthe fire in Chicago." _ All other topic were forgotten. here in the horror ovekthe tragedy. The flags over the Amécan steamship of- fices her¢ are half Basted. -- The following names among others were injured by the Secident to the Lake Shore limited," at Ashtabula Ohio: = Frevtog, Chimgo, head cut and body lacerated, alsointe ' 3 jured; B. W. Fowler, ig nt and. arms fractured, interng]y fajured Mme. Baleric Burcau, mad in the family of Marshall Field, ( hicaco arms broken and badly bruise, Of the injured these were the only ods seri ously injured. Russia's reply to Japan Will be handed to the mikado's officialy on January Ist. The reply, it is inthyag ed, will be couched in a concilabyry term, 2 Mr. and Mrs, Fred. Lumb, Toronty are home to spend a few holidays with friends. : THE OLD RELIABLE ' Lo lon, Hoi 2 Wilts. 5 Commas, aud prikey Fim ale Why hip Miles {Eoin ~ Warm Just Received. Children Underwear Another Big Shipment Children's Wool Vests and Drawers. Children's Combination Suits. Children's Black Tights 'and the Sleeping Suit. 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