"Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater HorrorEverett, Marshall
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"Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror
Everett, Marshall
Iroquois Theater, Chicago -- Fire, 1903; Theaters -- Fires and fire prevention
BUSCHWAH, LOUISE ALICE, 12 years old, 1810 Wellington avenue.
BUTLER, BENNETT, 13 years old, 649 Michigan street, Evanston.
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CALDWELL, ROBERT PORTER, 15 years old, St. Louis grain dealer.
CALVEN, MRS. HENRIETTA, Knox, Ind.
CAVILLE, ARTHUR, 24 years old, 54 Twenty-sixth street.
CHAPMAN, MISS NINA, 23 years old, Cedar Rapids, Ia.
CHRISTOPHERSON, MRS. MINNIE, 35 years old, 231 N. Harvey avenue.
CLAY, MISS SUSIE, 36 years old, 6409 Monroe avenue.
CLAYTON, JOHN V., 13 years old, 534 Morse avenue.
COGANS, MRS. MARGARETHA, 26 years old, 5904 Normal avenue.
CUMINGS, IRENE, 18 years, 5135 Madison avenue. Was with Miss Baker, 4410
Ellis avenue, who was injured. They were in the third row of the balcony.
CROCKER, MRS. LILLIE J., 3730 Lake avenue, teacher at Oakland school. She
went to the theater with Mrs. Pierce and daughter, of Plainville, Mich.
CANTWELL, MRS. THOMAS, 733 West Adams street, mother of Attorney Robert E.
Cantwell; identified by James Roche, a cousin.
COHN, MRS. JACOB, 222 Ogden avenue.
COPLER, LOLA, 18 years old, address not known.
CHAPMAN, BESSIE, 19 years old, Cedar Rapids, Ia., 211 Lincoln avenue;
identified by her uncle, C. W. Pierson, with whom she was visiting. Was at
theater with her sister Nina.
CHAPMAN, NINA, 23 years old, 211 Lincoln avenue; identified by her uncle,
C. W. Pierson, Cedar Rapids, Ia.
COULTTS, R. H., 1616 Wabash avenue. Body identified by granddaughter.
CASPER, CHARLES E., Kenosha, Wis.; body identified by G. H. Curtis of
Kenosha.
CURBIN, VERNON W., 10 years, 6938 Wentworth avenue. Identified by uncle,
Carlos B. Hinckley.
CALDWELL, ROY A. G., supposed; identified by cards in clothing.
CLARK, E. D., 30 years old, 5432 Lexington avenue.
CHRISTIANSON, HENRIETTA, 18 years old, 445 West Sixty-fifth street;
identified by W. A. Douglas.
CHRISTOPHER, MISS BELL, Decorah, Ia.
COOPER, MRS. HELEN S., 27 years old, Lena, Ill.
COOPER, WILLIS W., Kenosha, Wis., son of Charles F. Cooper, Kenosha.
COOPER, CHARLES F., Kenosha, Wis.
CORBIN, LOUISA, 37 years old, 6938 Wentworth avenue.
CORCORAN, MISS FLORENCE, 218 Dearborn avenue; identified by brother.
CHAPIN, AGNES, 4458 Berkeley avenue.
CORBIN, NORMAN, 9 years, Peoria, Ill.; identified by Victor B. Corbin.
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DEVINE, CLARA, 29 years, 259 La Salle avenue; identified by M. Reece.
DYRENFORTH, HELEN, 8 years old, daughter of Harold Dyrenforth, 832 Judson
avenue, Evanston; body identified by father.
DYRENFORTH, RUTH, daughter of Harold Dyrenforth, Evanston; body identified
and taken away by relatives.
DRYDEN, TAYLOR, 12 years old, 5803 Washington avenue; body identified by
father.
DRYDEN, MRS. JOHN, 5803 Washington avenue, mother of Taylor; body
identified by husband.
DAWSON, MRS. WILLIAM, Barrington, Ill.
DECKER, MYRON, 3237 Groveland avenue.
DELEE, VIOLA, 22 years old, daughter of the late Lieut. W. J. Delee, of
Central police detail, 7822 Union avenue; body identified by M. J. Delee,
her uncle.
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