Contents Page C for 1903 Chicago Iroquois Theater Fire Website

Website with 682+ pages devoted to 1903 Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago

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Audience stories	Performers: pg 1 pg 2
Fire in court	Stage workers
Life in 1903 pg 1 pg 2	Theater owners
Municipal response	Theater structure
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Iroquois Theater victims and subjects Index C

Caldwell, Charles L. - suspected victim from Indianapolis, never attended performance	BG
Caldwell, Robert Porter — audience fatality	AF 1828
Calhoun, Claude Clayton — Iroquois Theater employee survivor	WS 2506
Calhoun, William J. — defense attorney	ZBG 1417
Callahan, Edward J. — Chicago fireman	ZBG 2462
Callan, Grace — audience survivor	AS 1767
Calven, Mrs. Henrietta of Knox, Indiana — improbable audience fatality name appeared on one early list, coroner didn't issue death certificate and Knox Stark County Democrat newspaper knew nothing of it	AIF
Campbell, Arthur W. — audience survivor	ZBG 2507
Campbell, Alexander Fergus — police inspector Fifth division	ZBG 2593
Campbell, Harry — slightly injured first responder	ZBG 2508
Cameron, William B. — Iroquois Theater stagehand survivor	WS 1543
Campion, John — 1st assistant fire marshal	ZBG 1305
Canine, Dr. Robert — audience survivor	AS 1906
Cantwell, Ella Kavanaugh — audience fatality	AF 1306
Capron, Nellie — Mr. Bluebeard performer	PS 2038
Carbon arc lamp — see Lamp
Cardona, Winifred — audience survivor	AS 1768
Carlin, Nellie — attorney who represented wrongful death claims for twenty Iroquois Theater victims	ZBG 2414
Carlson, Arvid — audience survivor	AS 2484
Carlson, Victor — audience survivor	AS 2485
Carlton, William T. — Klaw & Erlanger stage manager survivor (also see fire curtain)	ZBG 1308
Carrick, Frederick — audience survivor	AS 2601
Carrington, Elizabeth — audience fatality	AF 2433
Carrying the dead	ZBG 1109
Carson, Pirie, Scott — donated bed linens	ZBG 1208
Casagrande, Joseph B. — telegraph operator	ZBG 2004
Casper, Charles E. — possible but unlikely audience fatality name appeared on only one early list, no subsequent lists, and coroner didn't issue death certificate	AU
Cast — see Mr. Bluebeard
Caulfield, J.L. — Iroquois ticket clerk survivor	WS 2609
Cavanaugh, Catherine L. — audience survivor	AS 2602
Cavanaugh, Edward B. — audience survivor	AS 2603
Cavenaugh, Ida Frame Kellogg — audience survivor	AS 2488
Caverly, John — police court judge	AS 1326
Caville, Arthur — audience fatality	AF 744
Cawthorn, Herbert — performer survivor	PS 1310
Cecil, Nora — performer survivor	PS 1311
Census, 1890 U.S. — lost in a fire in 1921	ZBG 2885
Chapin, Agnes — audience fatality	AF 1312
Chapman, Bessie — audience fatality	AF 1782
Chapman, Nina — audience fatality	AF 1783
Chapman, Rebeckah "Ruby" Cordelia — audience survivor	AS 2489
Chester, Grace— audience survivor	AS 2470
Chester, Henry Hall — audience survivor	AS 2467
Chester, Laura W. Budlong — audience survivor	AS 2468
Chester, Ruth — audience survivor	AS 2469
Chicago Athletic Association	ZBG 1084
Chicago's Awful Theatre Horror author	ZBG 1667
Chicago Building Department	BG 2646
Chicago Cemeteries 1st anniversary	BG 2786
Chicago firemen and fire department — see Fire
Chicago — famous brands — Cracker Jack and Wrigleys Gum	BG 1135
Chicago — Cleveland Theater	BG 1094
Chicago Delaware Building — Theater Syndicate plans	BG 1188
Chicago Edison Company — donated arc lamps	BG 1125
Chicago police department	BG 2913
Chicago teachers lost at the Iroquois	BG 1218
Chicago 1903 Christmas shopping	BG 1203
Chicago's Awful Theater Horror Lest we Forget book by Henry Neil under pen name Marshall Everett and reprinted as The Great Chicago Theater Disaster	BG 2643
Chicago Tribune newspaper recommendations following its fire investigation	BG 2869
Child actors	BG 1145
Chism, John — Mr. Bluebeard stagehand survivor	WS 1544
Christian, Henrietta — audience fatality	AF 1315
Christmas 1903	BG 1203
Christopher, Belle — audience fatality	AF 1218
Christopherson, Minnie — audience fatality	AF 1739
Chorus girls — Pony Ballet	BG 1202
Church of the Epiphany in Chicago	BG 1235
Churcher, Ella H./C./M. — slightly injured audience survivor accompanied by mother and nephew, living at 850 Washington Blvd. Can't find anything about her other than Iroquois reports in books and newspapers	AS
Church sermons Sunday after fire	ZBG 1222
Cigar store that held Iroquois receipts during fire	BG 1088
Clark, Albert — Illinois state senator, helped organize triage effort at Thompsons Restaurant	ZBG 1316
Clark St.	BG 1090
Clark, Edith — audience survivor	AS 2604
Clark, Nelson C — audience survivor	AS 2605
Clark, Verde Alice — audience survivor	AS 2606
Clarke, Edward D. — audience fatality	AF 1321
Clay, Susan Susie Isabel — audience fatality	AF 1322
Claybrook, William. M. — Iroquois porter survivor	WS 2607
Clayton, John Vinton — audience fatality	AF 1855
Cleland, Elizabeth — Iroquois employee dressing room matron survivor	WS 1484
Clendinin, William — Fireproof magazine editor	ZBG 1299
Cleveland Ohio theater Mr. Bluebeard fire report	BG 1095
Cleveland, William "Billy" — Chicago theater owner caught in new fire ordinance conflict	ZBG 1844
Clifford, May — dancing performer survivor	PS 2527
Clingen, Bessie — audience survivor	AS 1324
Clingen, Elizabeth Bessie E. Ricketts — audience fatality	AF 1323
Clingen, Margaret Edith — injured audience survivor	AS 1325
Clingman, Walter D. — coroners juror	ZBG 1452
Clinnin, John V. — passerby who rescued several victims	ZBG 2610
Clothing — see Fashions
Clune, James - Chicago policeman who worked Iroquois Theater fire	BG
Coffeen, Lester — audience survivor	AS 1945
Coffin Supply	BG 1100
Cogans, Margaret — audience fatality	AF 1850
Cohen, Mary — audience fatality	AF 1848
Coke Shampoo advertising	BG
Cole, William W. — Circus pioneer, one-time employer and financial backer of Will J. Davis	ZBG 1313
Coleman, Thomas J. — fictional stage electrician created by journalist	ZBG 2528
Coleman, Winnie — audience survivor	AS 1221
Collins, Arthur — Mr. Bluebeard producer Drury Lane	ZBG 2104
Collier, Henrietta Engleheart — audience survivor	AS 1480
Collins, Charles — newspaper reporter	ZBG 2611
Collins, Kenneth — audience survivor	AS 1793
Colonial Theater — see Iroquois Theater
Columbia Theater — Another theater that burned on Will Davis' watch	BG 2627
Combs, Harry J. dentist who identified victim's body	ZBG 2519
Come Buy Our Luscious Fruits — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Comelli, Attilio — Mr. Bluebeard costume designer	ZBG 1845
Comerford — see Jean Cowgill
Construction, Fuller — See Iroquois Theater
Conlon, Michael "Mickey" — Chicago alderman	ZBG 1596
Conway, Charles H. — accused ghoul	ZBG 1860
Cook, Sadie — audience fatality	AF 1354
Cooper, Charles Fisher — audience fatality	AF 1818
Cooper, Helene S. — audience fatality	AF 1863
Cooper, Margery C. — audience survivor	AS 2503
Cooper, Ralph — see Ralph Kompare
Cooper, Willis W. — audience fatality	AF 1819
Copler, Lola — see Lola Kuebler
Corbett, William J. — rescuer	ZBG 2617
Corbin, Louisa — audience fatality	AF 1277
Corbin, Norman — audience fatality	AF 1280
Corbin, Vernon W. — audience fatality	AF 1279
Corcoran, Florence — audience fatality	AF 1694
Cordner, Edward Q. — Abe Erlanger's secretary, officer in original Iroquois Theater incorporation filing	BG
Corrigan, Michael J. — Chicago fireman Engine 13	ZBG 1539
Coroner — see Court, Coroners jury and John Traeger
Corsets — see Fashions
Costumes — see Mr. Bluebeard
Couch Place — see Iroquois Theater
Coulter, Lila Hazel — audience survivor	AS 1792
Coutts, Robert H. — audience fatality	AF 1865
Council, Walter — volunteer rescuer	ZBG 2618
Court Change of venue affidavits dispute BG1224 Chicago city council and alderman what they did and didn't do BG2889 City of Chicago not liable ruling BG1086 Coroners jury BG1108 Grand juries I & II BG2883 Individual liability suits against Iroquois Theater BG2984 Initial bonds posted BG1058 Will J. Davis acquitted BG1164 Judge's acquittal ruling Roundup of attorneys BG2701 Summary of legal events relative to Iroquois Theater BG2869
Cowgill, Jean — Chicago journalist	ZBG 1904
Cracker Jack and baseball — see Chicago
Crane, Richard T. — Chicago industrialist hired fire investigator, John R. Freeman	ZBG 1546
Cregier, Dewitt, C. — Chicago city custodian	ZBG 1505
Crocker, Melissa J. Lillie — audience fatality	AF 1907
Cross, Dr. J. G. — treated victims taken to Marshall Field	ZBG 1955
Crowe, Robert Emmet — prosecuting attorney	ZBG 1449
Crowley, Alice — audience survivor	AS 1911
Crowley, Fannie — audience survivor	AS 1910
Crowley, Marie — see Ennis, Marie Crowley
Cubbon, Albert A. "Bert" — painting contractor rescuer	ZBG 2452
Cubbon, Charles Henry — painting contractor rescuer	ZBG 1919
Cubbon, Walter F. — painting contractor rescuer	ZBG 2453
Cullerton, Edward F. — Chicago alderman who primarily represented theater owners	ZBG 1616
Cummings, Edna — one of several aliases of a con artist who claimed to have been injured at Iroquois	ZBG 2608
Cummings, Edward — see James E. Cummings
Cummings, Irene — audience fatality	AF 1203
Cummings, James E. — Iroquois Theatre stage carpenter survivor	WS 1433
Cummings, Joseph A. — coroners juror	ZBG 1453
Cummings, Roger N. — Iroquois Theater stage employee survivor	WS 1434
Cunningham, Mabel Mae — audience survivor	AS 2620
Cunningham, Robert Davidson — audience survivor	AS 2619
Curran, May — thought to be at Iroquois but not. Sad story.	ZBG 2505
Curran, William — inspector Chicago electrical department	ZBG 1856
Curtains — see Iroquois Theater

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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