"You don't realise what this is, little girl," he said to me, and then a few minutes after he began groaning and crying to God. Credit: S.M. Carrie was admitted to the Samaritan hospital in Chicago where was treated for her injuries before being returned back into the custody of her father and grandmother. The firemen could not reach them in time. You should know: Chicago banned any celebration of the New Year and went into official mourning.
They had sought shelter in the cellar, which connected to the sewer. They would come to owe their lives to Peter Quinn (see rescuers stories) a railroad agent passing by outside who realised what was happening and, by good providence, always carried with him set of tools which he used in his profession and applied them to prise open the door hinges in order to release those trapped inside. We did the best we could. Composed of a mixture of wood-pulp and asbestos, and only one-sixth of the recommended thickness, it was almost totally consumed by the flames. [40] According to the anonymous New York Times journalist, “many people” alleged the ushers closed the doors and initially refused to let people exit.
Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I never believed it possible for fire to spread so quickly. Unseen, high above them in the flies, however, a fire was beginning to take hold amid the curtains and scenery suspended there.
I was leaving quietly up to this time, but when he refused to allow me to pass out peaceably, I determined to pass out if I had to make all sorts of noise. But the flames shot out, and the people in the balconies would not come down. Where was the Fire at the Iroquois Theater: Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA. I heard the cry and saw the mob rushing for the door. The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis.
Designed like a Paris opera house with a 19m (60 ft) high marble-walled lobby and two sweeping staircases, its four floors of polished wood and stained-glass windows seated 1,600 people in gilded galleries of velvet plush. Since the stage was lower than was the norm for American theatres, even the occupants of the front row could see the stage floor from the footlights to the back.
Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. I had an aisle seat in the parquet, near the center and four seats from the door's.
Unfortunately many more of those searches led to the end of all hope than to tearful reunions with their surviving loved ones. O’Connor – Notes on Culture, “Actress Profile: Colleen Moore” by S.M. Strong men volunteered to aid the tireless police and firemen in removing the bodies from the wrecked building, only to be reduced to tear stained wrecks themselves after carrying out the umpteenth child in their arms. Back inside the building, the stage hands formed a chain from the elevator to the exit to guide the chorus girls to safety through the smoke whilst the elevator 'boy', Robert Smith, made repeated runs through the smoke to bring the girls down from the dressing rooms above. More stagehands were trying desperately to lower the fire curtain but it would not budge. William Mullen - lighting operator who had charge of the light that started the fire. [29], Firemen arrived within fifteen minutes.
"Any concentration of so many deaths on a site like that, obviously, the place itself is going to be haunted by the tragedy," said David Cowan, of the Chicago Hauntings tour group and author of the books "To Sleep With the Angels" and "Great Chicago Fires. Some of the women were so frozen and frightened that they were unable to speak; others were horribly burned. From New York Tribune, 31st December 1903. Above the parquet, and accessed by two broad stairways leading off the foyer, were the dress circle (or 1st balcony) and above that the gallery (2nd balcony). They dragged me across the ladder and a whole lot of people came after us.
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