Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror
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Everett Marshall. Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror
INTRODUCTION
MEMORIAL PRAYER
MEMORIAL HYMN
POEM BY A CHILD VICTIM
VERDICT OF CORONER'S JURY
CHAPTER I. THE STORY OF THE FIRE
CHAPTER II. FIRST AID TO THE INJURED AND CARE FOR THE DEAD
CHAPTER III. TAKING AWAY AND IDENTIFYING THE DEAD
CHAPTER IV. SCENE OF HORROR AS VIEWED FROM THE STAGE
CHAPTER V. EXCITING EXPERIENCES IN THE FIRE
CHAPTER VI. HEROES OF THE FIRE
CHAPTER VII. THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE – THE ASBESTOS CURTAIN AND THE LIGHTS
CHAPTER VIII. SUGGESTIONS OF ARCHITECTS AND OTHER EXPERTS AS TO AVOIDING LIKE CALAMITIES
CHAPTER IX. THIRTY EXITS, YET HUNDREDS PERISH IN AWFUL BLAST
CHAPTER X. HOW THE NEW YEAR WAS USHERED IN
CHAPTER XI. A SABBATH OF WOE
CHAPTER XII. WHAT OF THE PLAYERS?
CHAPTER XIII. OTHER HOLOCAUSTS
CHAPTER XIV. STORIES AND NARRATIVES OF THE HOLOCAUST
CHAPTER XV. SOCIETY WOMEN AND GIRLS' CLUBS
CHAPTER XVI. EDDIE FOY'S SWORN TESTIMONY
CHAPTER XVII. EFFECT OF THE FIRE NEAR AND FAR
CHAPTER XVIII. SUGGESTIONS FOR SAFE THEATERS
CHAPTER XIX. THE SWORN TESTIMONY OF THE SURVIVORS
CHAPTER XX. LACK OF FIRE SAFEGUARDS
CHAPTER XXI. IRON GATES, DEATH'S ALLY
CHAPTER XXII. DANCED IN PRESENCE OF DEATH
CHAPTER XXIII. JOIN TO AVENGE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS
CHAPTER XXIV. AWFUL PROPHECY FULFILLED
CHAPTER XXV. LIST OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXVI. THE STORY OF THE BURNING OF BALTIMORE
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The Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows wrote this prayer for Chicago on its appointed day of mourning. It is a prayer for all mourners of all creeds:
Grand drapery coming in contact with electric flood or arc light, situated on iron platform on the right hand of stage, facing the auditorium.
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It was in the rear that the true horror of the fire was most fully disclosed. There no towering mosaic studded walls or kindly mantle of smoke shut out the horrid sight. From its opening scene to its silent, ghastly denouement the successive details of this greatest of modern tragedies was forced upon the view to be stamped upon the memory of the unwilling beholder with an impressiveness that only death will blot out.
After the first great impact had hurled the overflow of the fire-escape gallery into the alley yawning far below, the crush of humanity swept onward, downward to where safety beckoned. When the advance guard had all but reached the precious goal, with only a few feet of iron gallery and one more stairway to traverse, the crowning horror of the day unfolded itself. Right in the path of the advancing horde a steel window shutter flew back, impelled by the terrific energy of an immeasurable volume of pent up superheated air.
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