THE CHICAGO FIRE.
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. LONDON, January 3. The funerals of many of the Iroquois Theatre victims took place on Saturday and Sunday, and long lines of processions are constantly proceeding to the cemeteries. Not enongh coffins and hearses are available. The church bells were kept tolling all day, and business and seasonable celebrations have been suspended. The public schools will be closed on Monday in memory of thirty-four school teachers who perished.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the proprietors of the theatre on a charge of manslaughter. The Mayor, after an inspection of the bnmt theatre, declared that the building did not comply with the law, and ought not to have been opened. The operator of the electric light for the moonlight dance states that he saw the arc splutter between the carbons and the- curtain immediately took fire.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12646, 5 January 1904, Page 3
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143THE CHICAGO FIRE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12646, 5 January 1904, Page 3
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