"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
Mrs. Steinmetz was fifty-one years of age and the wife of O. T. P.
Steinmetz. She was born in Galena, Ill., her maiden name being Emma
Garner.]
[Illustration: MRS. WM. C. LEVENSON, 268 OGDEN AVENUE, CHICAGO.
This victim of the Iroquois fire, 28 years of age, was a Russian by birth,
and left a husband and two children. The latter were girls, four and two
years of age, respectively.]
[Illustration: MARY HERISH, 710 SO. HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO.
A Russian girl, only eighteen years of age. She was one of only three or
four of that nationality to lose her life in the disaster.]
[Illustration: LUCILE BOND, 4123 INDIANA AVENUE, CHICAGO.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Bond, and granddaughter of Benjamin
Moore, ten years of age. Her mother did not attend the matinee and her
father was absent in Nome, Alaska, where he holds a government position.]
[Illustration: SIBYL MOORE, HART, MICH.
Daughter of Mrs. Perry Moore, 13 years old, who also perished in the fire,
and granddaughter of Benjamin Moore. At the time of the calamity her
father was on his way home from Nome, Alaska.]
[Illustration: THE DEE CHILDREN, 3133 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO.
The three children of William Dee attended the matinee with their nurse.
Louise was two years of age and the two boys, twins, Edward Mansfield and
Samuel Allerton Dee, were seven years old. Eddie (the boy to the right of
the group) and his baby sister were killed. Samuel escaped, but the nurse
was found badly mangled, burned and unconscious.]
[Illustration: LOUISE DEE, CHICAGO.
The child of William Dee, who was killed with her brother at the Iroquois
fire. She was not burned, but is supposed to have been suffocated or died
of shock and exposure.]
[Illustration: MRS. MARY W. HOLST, 2088 VAN BUREN STREET, CHICAGO.
Wife of Wm. H. Hoist, and daughter of ex-Chief of Police Badenoch, who,
with her three children, Allan, Gertrude and Amy, perished in the fire.
She was identified by her husband by means of her wedding ring and a
diamond ring.]
[Illustration: GERTRUDE HOLST, 2088 VAN BUREN STREET, CHICAGO.
Gertrude was ten years of age and with her younger sister, Amy, and her
older brother, Allan, was a pupil of the Sumner school. All were burned in
the fire. The picture was taken some time ago when she was a flower girl
at a wedding.]
[Illustration: AMY HOLST, 2088 VAN BUREN STREET, CHICAGO.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Holst. Amy was seven years of age and
a pupil of the Sumner School. She, with her mother, brother and sister,
was a victim of the fire.]
[Illustration: MRS. CLARA RUHLMAN, CHICAGO.
The mother of Mrs. Sidonic (Herman) Fellman, who was burned in the fire
with her son-in-law and his mother.]
[Illustration: HERMAN FELLMAN, 3113 VERNON AVENUE, CHICAGO.
Mr. and Mrs. Fellman attended the matinee with their little girl, twelve
years of age, and their mothers. All except Mrs. Fellman and her daughter
perished.]
[Illustration: MRS. BERTHA FELLMAN, CHICAGO.
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