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	Montrose Cemetery: Iroquois Fire Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Iroquois Theatre was a mere five weeks old that day in 1903.
		Located on Randolph between State and Dearborn, it was a magnificent palace of marble and mahogany, a "virtual temple of beauty", and had been advertised as "absolutely fireproof".
		More victims of the Iroquois fire are in Forest Home and Graceland.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/montrose/iroquois.html (317 words)

	Theater Buildings
		From the first Chicago theater, built by John Blake Rice in 1847 and rebuilt following a fire three years later, through the Great Fire of 1871 and until the end of the century, fire kept Chicago's theaters in a state of constant regeneration not unlike the surrounding Illinois prairie.
		Two neighboring theaters, the Harris and the Selwyn, both built in 1922, were extensively renovated and used by the Goodman Theatre Company, beginning with the 2000–2001 season.
		Other notable theaters built in the past quarter century include the Apollo (1978) and the Royal George (1986), both on Lincoln Avenue, the Steppenwolf (1991) on Halsted, and, on Navy Pier, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (1999), which is unusual in its towering seating area, which, although indoors, was inspired by the Globe.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1245.html (605 words)

	Eastland Memorial Society - Iroquois Theater Fire
		In fact, the six-story tall Iroquois had only been open for five-weeks and was described as a magnificent palace of marble and mahogany, a "virtual temple of beauty", and had been advertised as "absolutely fireproof".
		The theater was equipped with an asbestos curtain, which could be lowered to separate the audience from any fire on stage.
		The Iroquois fire, with 602 casualties, was the deadliest blaze in Chicago history, second in the United States and fourth worldwide.
	www.inficad.com /~ksup/iroquois.html (1163 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Iroquois Theater Fire
		The Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago, Illinois, claimed 602 lives on December 30, 1903.
		The Iroquois Theater, at 24-28 W. Randolph St., was advertised as "absolutely fireproof." That day, over 1,900 people were in attendance at a matinee showing of the popular musical Mr.
		The exterior of the Iroquois was largely intact and reopened as the Colonial Theater, which was torn down in 1926 to make room for the Oriental Theater.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Iroquois_Theater (353 words)

	The 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire- This Nation's Deadliest Single Building Blaze - Associated Content
		Supposedly "fireproof", the Iroquois Theater was anything but, and despite the precautions taken to prevent a tragedy, the building burned down, taking all those people to their death.
		The Iroquois was Chicago's newest and most polished theater, built by architect Benjamin Marshall, who had studied many fires over the years and had tried to make this particular building as safe as possible.
		The Iroquois was designed in the image of a famous Paris opera house, and the four-story structure contained elaborates stained glass windows and polished wood.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/128603/the_1903_iroquois_theater_fire_this.html (514 words)

	Iroquois Theater Fire
		Henceforth, all theater exits had to be clearly marked and the doors rigged so that, even if they could not be pulled open from the outside, they could be pushed open from the inside.
		Below is the entry in the Coroner's Inquest Record for Mary Edna Torney, one of the victims of the tragic theater fire.
		The coroner's jury verdict for all of the inquests held for the victims of the Iroquois Theater Fire was appended as a separate document.
	www.sos.state.il.us /departments/archives/iroqfire.html (213 words)

	The Iroquois Theater Disaster
		In the darkness that fell upon the doomed theater a struggle ensued such as was never pictured in the mind of Dante in his visions of Inferno.
		In that portion of the Iroquois structure the only physical evidences of damages were a few windows broken during the excitement.
		Only for a moment, a brief second it seemed, the wild procession moved, yet in that limited period scores, perhaps hundreds, poured from the seething inferno-practically all that escaped from the lofty balcony that was a moment later transformed into the death chamber of helpless hundreds.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /iroquoisfire.htm (4760 words)

	Theater, Cards and Dance - Christian Classics - Praize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		You know that the theater had its beginning in the church and was intended to be the handmaid of religion.
		You will find the theater trafficking in love--why, that is the hasis of the average play--and yet they call it "art." You will find divorce smeared all over the stage, and adultery even lurking in the flies.
		When the Iroquois Theater burned the theaters all over the country were restricted; and in Chicago they were closed for a month.
	www.praize.com /classics/article.php?id=433 (5290 words)

	November 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is the deadliest fire in Chicago's history, occurring less than a month after the opening of the supposedly fireproof theater.
		The primary hazards, as was the case with a number of similar fires of the time, were canvas backdrops painted with highly flammable oil paints and suspended close to hot lights.
		The theater did not have fire hoses or extinguishers, and the staff was untrained.
	www.safetycenter.navy.mil /onthisday/december/1228.htm (195 words)

	Spokane Fire Department - Media Release
		Due to a long history of theater fires in the U.S. and Europe, by 1903 fire precautions were well developed, but not followed by the Iroquois Theater management.
		The theater had hired on-duty firefighters but they were equipped only with two tubes of patent powder called Kilfyres.
		The theater had had no fire drills so ushers and theater personnel neither opened the doors, nor directed people to safe exits.
	www.spokanefire.org /media_release/default.aspx?media=43 (583 words)

	NYS Standards
		Because the Iroquois Museum is an anthropology museum, we situate Iroquois art, culture, and history within a global and human context.
		Understanding the Iroquois loss of autochthonous homelands and subsequent sociogeographic re-organization onto some sixteen reservations and reserves is one of the things we try to send every student home with.
		Our Iroquois Environments program makes use of the anthropological concept of ethnoscience to describe Iroquois concepts about the natural world, which include principles and theories of causality, acquired knowledge of plant uses, and applications of this knowledge for healing and survival.
	www.iroquoismuseum.org /nys.htm (1241 words)

	Disaster Souvenir Spoons -- Iroquois Fire -- Chicago
		I entered the term Iroquois Theater Chicago into one of the search engines and the following highly informative article popped to the top.
		The theater management had added iron gates over many of the exit doors.
		Colonial Theater until it was torn down in 1925”.
	www.geocities.com /RodeoDrive/6232/iroquois.html (724 words)

	Entertainment and Commerce--Celebrate African American History Month 2003--A National Register of Historic Places ...
		The Iroquois Theater, a vaudeville and silent movie theater, was a creative center of entertainment where musicians played Jazz and Blues to accompany stage acts and films.
		Theaters such as the Iroquois served as training grounds for young musicians and gave local players exposure to national touring acts.
		The Eagle Saloon, the Iroquois Theater and the Karnofsky Tailor Shop and House are a few examples of the many once thriving businesses that drew African Americans to South Rampart Street in the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/feature/afam/2003/entertainment.htm (532 words)

	The Tragedy of Chicago's Iroquois Theater - Associated Content
		The theater was billed as a “completely fireproof structure” with extra exits for safety plus extra ushers and men in city uniforms at every show.
		In fact, the six-story tall Iroquois was described as a magnificent palace of marble and mahogany, a "virtual temple of beauty." The theater was equipped with an asbestos curtain, which could be lowered to separate the audience from any fire on stage.
		The one trained fireman in the theater did not have the equipment to stop such a rapidly moving blaze.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/80229/error (538 words)

	Iroquois Theater Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago, Illinois, claimed 602 lives on December 30, 1903.
		The Iroquois Theater, at 24-28 W. Randolph St., was advertised as "absolutely fireproof." That day, over 1,900 people were in attendance at a matinee showing of the popular musical Mr.
		The exterior of the Iroquois was largely intact and reopened as the Colonial Theater, which was torn down in 1926 to make way for the Oriental Theater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iroquois_Theater_Fire (393 words)

	Entertainment and Commerce--Celebrate African American History Month 2003--A National Register of Historic Places ...
		The Iroquois Theater, a vaudeville and silent movie theater, was a creative center of entertainment where musicians played Jazz and Blues to accompany stage acts and films.
		Theaters such as the Iroquois served as training grounds for young musicians and gave local players exposure to national touring acts.
		The Eagle Saloon, the Iroquois Theater and the Karnofsky Tailor Shop and House are a few examples of the many once thriving businesses that drew African Americans to South Rampart Street in the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/feature/afam/2003/entertainment.htm (532 words)

	WEIRD CHICAGO: IROQUOIS THEATER FIRE
		Another terrible blaze occurred at the Iroquois Theater on December 30, 1903 as a fire broke out in the crowded theater during a performance of a vaudeville show, starring the popular comedian Eddie Foy.
		Seats in the theater were wooden and stuffed with hemp and much of the precautionary fire equipment that was advertised to have been installed, never actually made it into the building.
		The scene outside of the theater was completely normal and most accounts say that the fire was burning for almost 15 minutes before any smoke was noticed by those passing by.
	www.weirdchicago.com /iroquois.html (2561 words)

	Broadway's New Victory Theater
		The New Victory Theater is a jewel-box theater, located on legendary 42nd street, dedicated to entertaining children and their families and to develop theater audiences of the future.
		This was to become the heart of the theater district in New York.
		There are family workshops, student school performances in the daytime, employment for high school students and a professional theater atmosphere and experience for young and mature alike.
	new-victory-theater.visit-new-york-city.com (441 words)

	Eastland Memorial Society
		It was exactly 50 years ago - December 30, 1903 - that she fled for her life from the stage of the Iroquois Theater in Chicago as it was transformed within a brief half-hour into a charred oven piled high with 596 dead, mostly women and children.
		Firemen responding to a delayed alarm because there was no firebox in front of the theater strung their hose lines over layers of bodies which were 10 feet deep in some places.
		In the shock of the calamity, theaters throughout the country and in Europe closed their doors for inspection of their fire precautions.
	www.eastlandmemorial.org /iroquois8.shtml (818 words)

	Iroquois Theater Fire
		The primary danger came from the stage scenery consisting of many canvas backdrops painted with highly flammable oil paints and suspended in midair close to a large number of hot lights.
		Neglect of all of these factors contributed to the huge death toll in the Iroquois Theater fire.
		The largely undamaged building reopened less than a year later and operated as the Colonial Theater until it was torn down in 1925.
	www.ezl.com /~fireball/Disaster02.htm (644 words)

	Daily Herald - Members of Springville family perish in Chicago holocaust
		Lulu, who was a talented actress, and her two children, Melba and Boyer, loved the theater and attended a December 30, 1903, performance of Mr.
		He hurried to the theater, and for a short time, he assisted in front of the building with the injured and the dead.
		The frenzied, panic-stricken masses hurrying toward the theater exits had trampled upon the small body to such a great extent that his face was not recognizable.
	www.heraldextra.com /content/view/176327/4 (2145 words)

	Fire Code for Software
		In Europe and America 500 fires left theaters in ruins between 1750 and 1877.
		Consider the 1903 Iroquois theater fire in, of course, Chicago.
		Yet 5 years after Iroquois a fire in Cleveland took the lives of 171 children and two teachers.
	www.ganssle.com /articles/FireCode.htm (1975 words)

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		In the loss of life the burning of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago on the afternoon of December 30, 1903 stands without a parallel in such catastrophes.
		Sixty men and women, who had escaped death in the fire, were there to witness it, to count their blessings, and to recount the tales of heroism and horror that occurred on that frightful, fateful day.
		Bluebeard," the attraction at the Iroquois theater on Dec. 30, 1903, shuddered in retrospect.
	www.lowellpl.lib.in.us /iroquois.htm (2995 words)

	Inside the Field Guide to Chicago Hauntings
		The Iroquois Theater Disaster was a terrible fire that shouldn't have happened.
		The theater was going to hold about two thousand people, mostly women and children who were on the holiday break from school.
		The front doors of the theater had this clever design that were to swing inward not outward.
	www.ghostguides.com /books/inside.html (1684 words)

	Newspaper critic shapes Chicago style of theater Newspaper Research Journal - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This study of coverage of the local theater scene from 1975-85 in three Chicago dailies found that one critic, Richard Christiansen, had the strongest influence on the development of the Chicago Style that flourished in the off-Loop theaters.
		In Chicago, the pivotal event might have been the repeal of restrictive fire codes that had been in place since the tragic Iroquois Theater fire of 1903 that had killed 600.
		For media scholars, the crucial question is the degree of influence the press exerted on the growth and style of Chicago theater in this important period.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3677/is_200204/ai_n9037359 (801 words)

	Cinema Treasures \| Colonial Theatre
		Though the auditorium was heavily damaged by the fire, the Iroquois was structurally sound, and was rebuilt and reopened less than a year later, as Hyde and Behman's Music Hall.
		The Iroquois Theatre fire was a landmark event that caused cities across the nation to institute or increase their theatre safety laws.
		The Colonial (AKA Iroquois) was built without sufficient exits, and some of the exits were locked shut at the time of the fire.
	cinematreasures.org /theater/3696 (1909 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903: Books: Nat Brandt,Perry Duis,Cathlyn Schallhorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In "Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903", Nat Brandt provides a detailed chronicle of this horrific event to assess not only the titanic tragedy of the fire itself but also the municipal corruption and greed that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke and ash afterwards.
		Advertised as "absolutely fireproof," the Iroquois was Chicago's most modern playhouse when it opened in the fall of 1903.
		Despite overwhelming evidence that the building was not complete, that fire safety laws were ignored, and that management had deliberately sealed off exits during the performance, no one was ever convicted or otherwise held accountable for the enormous loss of life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Chicago-Death-Trap-Iroquois-Theatre/dp/080932721X (500 words)

	NYC Hotels - The Iroquois - New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Iroquois is a newly remodeled luxury first class 5 star deluxe retreat with the style and manner of an elegant private mansion.
		The Iroquois New York has the intimate charm of an elegant European hotel.
		Located within strolling distance of Fifth Avenue shopping, the bright lights of Broadway and the international corporate offices of midtown, The Iroquois is at the epicenter of all that is exciting about New York.
	www.iroquoisny.com /homecontent2.html (240 words)

	Learned From Fire Disaster
		The Iroquois Theater was one of the great entertainment venues in this thriving industrial center.
		The Iroquois Theater was built of fire-resistive materials.
		There are also a number of classic fires in places of public assembly that have led to upgrades in fire and life safety.
	www.firefightercentral.com /history/learned_from_fire_disaster.htm (3656 words)

	ABC7Chicago.com: Tragic similarities: Iroquois Theater fire, E2 nightclub disaster
		February 18, 2003 - The Epitome nightclub tragedy of 2003 and the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903-- they happened 100 years apart but a common thread is interwoven through the two deadly events.
		A century ago in 1903 the Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street was the sight of our country's worst ever theatre fire-- 602 people were killed when an explosive fire roared from the stage area into the audience.
		Some people were burned to death and the people up in the balcony, mostly women and children, started to run to exit the theatre and they got caught into what they thought were narrow stairways.
	abclocal.go.com /wls/story?section=News&id=174653&ft=exLg (316 words)

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