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Actors 1
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Fires 6
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Eddie Foy
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Eddie Foy, Leading Actor, who told the audience to go out slowly."
Front of the Iroquois Theater
Image | 1903 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "In front of the theater at the time of the fire, December 30th, 1904, 4 p.m."
Harry J. Powers
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Harry J. Powers, One of the Theater Managers Arrested for Manslaughter."
Front of Iroquois Theater
Image | 1903 | Picture ChicagoDecember 1903.
Front rows and stage
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Front rows of seats and front of stage."
Ambulance loaded with fire victims
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "While the streets began to crowd for blocks around with weeping and heartbroken persons in mortal terror because of knowledge that loved ones had attended the performance, patrol wagons, ambulances and open wagons hurried the injured to hospitals. Before long they were called upon to perform the more grewsome [sic] task of removing the dead. In wagon loads the la...
Waiting to get into morgue
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Waiting their turn to get into the morgue."
Carter H. Harrison
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago."
In front of the theater
Image | 1903 | Picture ChicagoDecember 1903.
Miss Nellie Reed
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Miss Nellie Reed, Leader of the Flying Ballet, killed by the fire." From text: "Miss Nellie Reed, the principal of the flying ballet, which was in place for its appearance near the top part of the stage, was so badly burned by the flames before she was able to escape that she afterward died at the county hospital. The other members of the flying ballet were not inj...
Line of fire victims
Image | 1904 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "A line of victims of the fire awaiting identification."