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Iroquois Theater victims and subjects Index B
Babes in Toyland ZG 1162
Bagley, Helen — audience fatality AF 1202
Bahr, Edward — audience survivor AS 1391
Bahr, Frederick — audience survivor AS 1392
Bailey, Edward Payson. — audience survivor AS 1950
Bain, William — Iroquois assistant electrical engineer survivor WS 1205
Baker, Adelaide — audience fatality AF 1204
Balcony — see Iroquois
Baldwin, Helen E. Paris — audience survivor AS 1206
Ballet of Ferns — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Banshaf, George — audience fatality AF 1210
Barbour, James J. — assistant state attorney ZBG 1416
Barker, Ethel M. — audience fatality AF 1211
Barker, Norton — audience survivor AS 1393
Barnard, Archie — see Bernard
Barnes, Albert Crane — states attorney, primary prosecutor ZBG 1213
Barnes, Mary Elson — audience survivor AS 2502
Barnheisel, Freddie R. — audience survivor AS 1215
Barnheisel, Charles H. — audience fatality AF 1214
Barr, Frank — stage carpenter survivor WS 1627
Barry, Nellie — audience survivor AS 1220
Barry, Wilma — see Wilma Porter
Barry, William H. "Billy" — prior chief inspector in building department ZBG 1787
Barsness, Nellie — audience survivor AS 2088
Barsness, Jennie — audience survivor AS 2089
Bartsch, William C. — audience fatality AF 1227
Bartine, Grace Suiter — feared victim but was at different theater ZBG 1623
Bartlett, Arthur — audience fatality AF 1225
Bartlett, Alvina- audience fatality AF 1223
Bartlett, Emma Ulrich Dolsen. — audience fatality AF 1183
Bartlett disambiguation
Bartlett, Emma — audience fatality AF 1224
Bartlett, William A. — see Church sermons
Battenfield, John — audience fatality AF 1229
Battenfield, Robert — audience fatality AF 1231
Battenfield, Ruth — audience fatality AF 1230
Battenfield, Sarah Murray — audience fatality AF 1228
Baumel, Sophia — young woman injured by falling Iroquois sign ZBG 1630
Beahm, Ethel — audience survivor AS 1397
Beahm, Susan — injured audience survivor AS 1398
Beam, Walter — volunteer rescuer AS 2631
Beaumont, George — architect advising Chicago city council
   special committee on new theater ordinance 		ZBG 1593
Beaute, Daisy — performer survivor PS 1407
Beath, Irene — audience survivor AS 1341
Beauty & the Beast — glass palace BG 1226
Beck, Dr. Carl — skin grafts for Edna Hunter ZBG 1631
Becker, B. B. — see Boecker
Becker sisters — see Maggie and Katie Kennedy
Beder girls — see McKenna & Vallely
Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous — See Mr. Bluebeard music
Beil & Mauch — architectural sculpting contractor — see Iroquois Theater Indian bust
Bein, Hermann — audience fatality AF 1632
Belasco, David — theatrical producer — see Chrystal Haerr
Belasco, Zaza — bogusly reported to have been a Bluebeard survivor  ZBG 1633
Bell, Maria Pet — audience fatality (sister to Irene Reiter) AF 1244
Bell, Samuel — performer survivor PS 1634
Bellaire, Florida — chorus girl survivor PS 1635
Beller, C.C. — injured audience survivor — name only appeared in out-of-Chicago newspapers so may have been a typographical error on AP wire AS
Ben Hur ZBG 1038
Benjamin, Lillian "Lilly" Beach — audience survivor AS 1684
Bennett, Frank I. — Chicago alderman who contributed to new theater ordinance ZBG 1595
Berchem, Jules — cast Iroquois memorial plaque sculpted by Lorado Taft ZBG 1963
Berg, Hilma Johnson — audience fatality AF 1246
Berg, Victor — audience fatality AF 1248
Berg, Olga — audience fatality AF 1247
Berger, Julia M. — audience survivor — for eighteen months AS 1252
Bergch, Anna — audience fatality AF 1249
Bergch, Arthur, Jr. — audience fatality AF 1250
Bergch, Arthur Sr. — injured audience survivor AS 1251
Bergin, Michael — Iroquois Theater tage worker, survivor WS 1481
Berkery, Charles J. — Chicago fireman ZBG 1957
Bern, Herman — see Herman Bein
Berrien, Helene E. — audience survivor AS 1660
Berrien, Otillie. — audience survivor AS 1661
Bernard, Archie — Iroquois house electrician chief WS 1430
Berry, Carleton C. — injured audience survivor AS 1257
Berry, Margaretha "Maggie"- audience fatality AF 1254
Berry, Emma — audience fatality AF 1256
Berry, Otto G. — audience fatality AF 1255
Best Russell Cigars — held Iroquois receipts during fire ZBG 1088
Beautel, Joseph Benjamin — Chicago police officer first responder ZBG 1966
Beutel, William — audience fatality AF 1689
Beutel, Emily — audience fatality AS 1690
Bevis, Edwin J. — Iroquois Theater stage carpenter survivor WS 1482
Beyer, Otto H. Henry — audience fatality AF 1259
Beyer, Wilhemina "Minnie" Meisner — audience fatality AF 1260
Beyer, Grace — audience fatality AF 1243
Bezenek, Joseph J. — audience fatality AF 1358
Bezenek, Nellie Moore — audience fatality AF 1359
Bibel, Charles — audience survivor AS 1695
Bibo, Helen — audience survivor AS 1942
Bickford, Glenn — audience fatality AF 1262
Bickford, Helen — audience fatality AF 1263
Bickles, John — See John Pickles
Biegler, Susan Marshall — audience fatality AF 1264
Billionaire, The — see Jerome Sykes
Billy Gray, U.S.A., O.K — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Bircker, J. W. — injured audience survivor, 1454 Graceland.  No such address in 1903 Chicago and no Chicago newspaper lists included this pair
    (see Rona below). 		AS
Bircker, Rona — injured 14 yr old audience survivor.  (see J.W. above) Looked for a Ronald Bircker too.  None.  Typographical error seems likely AS
Bird, Marion — audience fatality AF 1184
Bissing, Harry — designer of Iroquois Theater special lighting ZBG 1431
Bissinger, Tessie — audience survivor AS 1265
Bissinger, Walter — audience fatality AF 1266
Black, Charles W. — audience survivor (newlywed to Mary Flannagan of Sturgis, Michigan) AS 2435
Blackman, Ethel — audience fatality AF 1268
Blackman, Gladys — audience survivor AS 1269
Blackman, Geoffrey E. — audience survivor AS 1270
Blair, Clyde A. — audience survivor AS 1274
Blair, Mae — extraordinary Chicago Lawn telephone operator ZBG 1985
Blake, Freeman K. — Chicago alderman who fought for sprinklers ZBG 1617
Blanch, Ada — see Ada Cecelia Blanch Adams
Bliss, Harold F. — audience fatality AF 1691
Bluebeard — see Mr. Bluebeard
Blood, Clarence — audience survivor AS 1988
Bloom, Rose — audience fatality AF 1717
Blum, Rose — see Rose Bloom
Bodies awaiting identification ZBG 1012
Boeker, Bernard Berthold — audience survivor AS 1408
Boem (or Boeam), Paul — improbable audience fatality. Appeared on early lists, no death certificate issued, possibly confused with Paul and Marie Brennan  who lived at same address: 608 West Fulton .  No Paul Boem or Boeam living in Chicago in 1903. AU
Boettcher, Norine H. Baker — audience fatality AF 1276
Boggs, Esther — performer survivor PS 1284
Bogg, Mamie — audience fatality AF 1278
Boice, Sarah Belle Chipman — audience fatality AF 1722
Boice, Elizabeth Bessie Stoddart — audience fatality AF 1723
Boice, William Hasbrouck — audience fatality AF 1721
Bolte, Charles Guy — audience survivor AS 2425
Bolte, Guy — audience survivor AS 2428
Bolte, Jessie Jane Willard — audience survivor AS 2426
Bolte, John Willard — audience survivor AS 2427
Bolte, Linda W. — audience fatality AF 1751
Boltie, Helen — improbable audience fatality name appeared in Everett book and one newspaper list but coroner did not issue death certificate and there was only 1 family named Boltie in U.S., in W. Virginia AU
Bond, Lucile — audience fatality AF 1363
Bonds, setting — see Court
Books in 1903 ZBG 1060
Borresen, Christ — injured audience survivor AS 1726
Botsford, Mabel A. — audience fatality AF 1692
Boukidis, Thomas — fruit retailer on Randolph who gave shelter to fleeing victims ZBG 1996
Bour, Dorothy — audience survivor AS 1286
Bowen, George C. — audience survivor AS2471
Bowers, Carrie — audience survivor AS 1994
Bowers, Jemina "Mina" Richards — audience survivor AS 1995
Bowman, Beatrice M. — audience fatality AF 1753
Bowman, Josephine — audience fatality AF 1752
Bowman, Lucien — audience fatality AF 1754
Boyden, Florena "Flora" Warner — audience survivor AS 1999
Boyden, John — audience survivor AS 1998
Boyle, James — newsboy who found victim's ring ZBG 1779
Boynton, Ray S. — Iroquois usher survivor WS 2021
Bozardt, Victor — Mr. Bluebeard octet performer survivor PS 1288
Brackebush, Fred M. — Iroquois Theater ticket clerk survivor WS 1755
Brady, John T. — Chicago policeman or fireman ZBG 2060
Brady, Leon — see Leon Frady
Brady, William A. — theater producer ZBG 1289
Brandt, Anna — performer survivor PS 2068
Bray, Harriet — audience survivor AS1395
Bray, William — audience survivor AS1394
Brennan, Agnes — listed as fatality but did not attend ZBG2066
Brennan, Maria Hogan — audience fatality AF 1290
Brennan, James Paul — audience fatality AF 1291
Brennan, Annie J. — performer survivor PS 2526
Brennan, Mary May Eliza — performer survivor PS 2525
Brennan, William F. — commissioner of public works ZBG 1507
Bressen, Mrs. A. — injured audience survivor — name only appeared  in a few out-of-Chicago newspapers so may have been a typographical error on AP wire
 AS
Brewster, Mary Julia — audience fatality AF 1697
Brinsley, Emma L Newman. — audience fatality AF 1293
Brown, Arthur C. — orchestra performer survivor PS 1715
Brown, Arthur G. — escape witness AS 1741
Brown, Edith — audience survivor AS 2002
Brown, Harold — audience survivor AS 1777
Brown, Hazel Grace — audience fatality AF 1776
Bruce, Joseph H. — audience survivor AS 1943
Brydges, Dr. James Charles — physician working on victims at Thompsons restaurant ZBG 1780
Bryden, Mrs. John — See Birdie Dryden BG
Bryden, Taylor — See Taylor Dryden BG
Brydon, R — possible Iroquois Theater employee BG
Buchan, Annabelle — see Annabell Whitford Moore Buchan
Buckingham, George T. — states special prosecutor ZBG 1419
Buckley, Edward — Chicago fireman ZBG 129
Buckley, Lawrence — deputy Chicago coroner ZBG 1294
Buddeke, Blanche — audience survivor AS 2466
Buddeke, Kate Hamilton — audience survivor AS 2058
Buehrmann, Margaret — audience fatality AF 1297
Bullard & Gormley Hardware lantern donator BG 1069
Bullen, Mabel — audience survivor AS 2042
Bullis, Ruth R. — audience survivor from Decorah, Iowa AS 2516
Burdick, Helen — audience survivor AS 1835
Burial permits BG 1100
Burgess, Dr. William — San Antonio resident incorrectly named as an Iroquois Theater victim ZBG 2587
Burke, Bertha — audience fatality AF 2041
Burnett, Clyde J. — volunteer rescuer at Hallwood Cash Register ZBG 2588
Burnside, Esther — audience fatality AF 1300
Burton, May — probably made-up survivor ZBG 2587
Busback, Lewis — see Louise Buschwah
Buschwah, Louise Alice — audience fatality AF 1301
Bush, Louise — see Louise Buschwah
Bushnell, Milton B. — witness in Chicago graft investigation ZBG 1784
Bust on front of theater — see Iroquois Theater bust
Butler, Bennett — audience fatality AF 1302
Butler, Edward - fictional rescuer created by journalist ZBG 2532
Butler, Herman — audience survivor AS 1944
Butler, Orlando H. — Iroquois Theater stage clearer survivor WS 1483
Butler, Lucretia E. — audience fatality AF 1303
Byrne, Consila — audience fatality AF 1737
Byrne, Mary — audience fatality AF 1738
Byrnes, Peter — coroners juror ZBG 1455


A note about sourcing.  When this project began, I failed to anticipate the day might come when a more scholarly approach would be called for.  When my mistake was recognized I faced a decision: go back and spend years creating source lists for every page, or go forward and try to cover more of the people and circumstances involved in the disaster.  Were I twenty years younger, I'd have gone back, but in recognition that this project will end when I do, I chose to go forward.  These pages will provide enough information, it is hoped, to provide subsequent researchers with additional information.


I would like to hear from you if you have additional info about an Iroquois victim, or find an error, and you're invited to visit the comments page to share stories and observations about the Iroquois Theater fire.


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