"Granting that the conflagration detailed never happened, it is something liable to occur at any time in this city. Newspaper accounts more sensational in headlines and more shocking in narrative are to be expected almost any morning. The above is but a suggestion of what may at any time become a reality. Theaters are so built and so crammed with inflammable materials that a fire once started in them would in an incredibly short period gain such headway that nothing under heaven could check its mad and devouring career. Furthermore, the means of exit and all other avenues of escape are so limited that a panic once inaugurated in a crowded house would bring destruction upon the heads of a large proportion of the audience. Have theater-goers in Chicago ever thought of this, as, crowded into a seat, with means of hasty exit cut off, they have sat and looked around them upon the hundreds of others similarly situated? CHAPTER XXV. LIST OF THE DEAD. A. ADAMEK, JOHN, MRS., 40 years old, Bartlett, Ill. ALEXANDER, LULU B., 36 years old, 3473 Washington boulevard; identified by husband, W. G. Alexander. ALLEN, MRS. MARY S., 27 years old, 5546 Drexel boulevard. ANDERSON, RAGNE, 39 years old, scrubwoman, Iroquois; 229 Grand avenue. ANDREWS, HARRIET, 20 years old, West Superior, Wis. ALEXANDER, BOYER, 8 years old, 475 Washington boulevard; body identified by his father, Dr. W. A. Alexander. ADAMS, MRS. JOHN, Iola, Ill., identified by R. H. Ostrander. ALDRIDGE, LUELLA M'DONALD, 792 West Monroe street. ALFSON, ALFRED, 24 Keith street; identified by father. ANDERSON, ANNIE, 29 years old, 2141 Jackson boulevard. ANNEN, MARGARET, 299 Webster avenue; identified by Charles Annen. B. BARRY, WILMA, 17 years old, 4330 Greenwood avenue, stepdaughter of E. P. Berry, the insurance man, was with Mrs. Barry, who escaped. BARRY, MISS MAGGIE, 26 years old, 236 Lincoln avenue. BARNHEISEL, CHARLES H., 3622 Michigan avenue; unknown to family that he had attended theater, and published list of dead containing name conveyed the first information to family; body identified by relatives. BISSINGER, WALTER, 15 years old, 4934 Forrestville avenue, son of Benjamin Bissinger, real estate man; attended Howe Military academy at Lima, Ind.; was with sister, Tessie, 20 years, and cousin, Jack Pottlitzer, of Lafayette, Ind., who was killed; the sister escaped. BURNSIDE, MRS. ESTHER, 437 West Sixty-fourth street; body identified by her son, C. W. Burnside, and the family physician, Dr. Schultz. BYRNE, CONSILA, 16 years old, 616 West Fifteenth street; Identified by sister. BICKFORD, GLENN, 16 years old, son of C. M. Bickford, 947 Farwell avenue, Rogers Park. BICKFORD, HELEN, 14 years old, daughter of C. M. Bickford. BREWSTER, MARY JULIA, 116 Thirty-first street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Brewster. BRENNAN, PAUL, 608 West Fulton street; identified at Rolston's. BAGLEY, MISS HELEN DEWEY, 18 years, 24 Madison Park; identified by J. J. Mahoney.