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Iroquois Theater victims and subjects Index L
Lake, Ada B. — audience survivor AS 1253
Lake, Orlena Moak — audience fatality AF 2250
Lake View High School BG 2719
Lamp — see Iroquois Theater Equipment
Lancaster, Helen Hutchinson — audience survivor AS 2581
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain - district court judge BG
Lang, Florence — audience survivor AS 2154
Lang, May — audience survivor AS 2155
Lang, Rosa — audience survivor AS 2438
Lang, Vera  — audience survivor AS 2439
Lange, Agnes — audience survivor AS 2254
Lange, Agnes — audience fatality AF 2120
Lange, Emma — audience survivor AS 2440
Lange, Herbert — audience fatality AF 2119
Lange, Hortense — audience survivor AS 2441
Lange, Irene — audience survivor AS 2442
Langford, Leroy P. — Iroquois Theater stagehand survivor WS 1535
Langstaff, Lottie — audience survivor PS2472
Lanning, Judge William — discharged Iroquois Theater corporation in bankruptcy BG
La Rose, Josephine Emma — audience fatality AF 1366
La Rose, Laura Elvena — audience fatality AF 1367
La Rose, Matilda Louise — audience fatality AF 1365
Lasky, Mrs. — audience survivor AS 2255
Lassmann, Susie — see Susie Lefmann
Laughlin, Edward — see Loughlin
Laughlin, Rupert D. — audience survivor, an upholsterer who attended matinee with his niece AS
Lawrence, Anita  — audience survivor AS 2222
Lawrence, Ella W. — audience fatality AF 2256
Lawrence, Gertrude — performer survivor PS 2076
Lawrence, Martha Ellis — audience survivor AS 2223
Leach, Frances Ann Maddox — audience fatality AF 1941
Leaton, Fred W. — audience fatality AF 2418
Leavenworth, Carrie — audience fatality AF 2257
Leiber — see Lieber
Leverton, J. — Theater stage clearer WS 1515
Lefmann, Susie Wood — audience fatality AF 1401
Legal — see Iroquois Theater fire legal
Lehman, Marietta — possible injured audience survivor AS
Lehman, Frances M. — audience fatality AF 1932
Leiber, Anthony J. — Chicago fireman BG
Leinschukt, Alma — see Linchusky
Leland, Reed A. — rescuer ZBG 2302
Lemenager, Dorothy M. — audience fatality AF 2304
Lemenager, Jessie F. Bouchier — audience fatality AF 2303
Lemenager, Wallace H. — audience fatality AF 2305
Leonard, Gracie — fictional audience fatality made up by Jean Cowgill ZBG 2530
Lense, Julius A. — Chicago Building Department inspector, friends with Edward Loughlin ZBG 1788
Leopold, Selma — audience survivor AS 2190
Lest We Forget — see Chicago's Awful Theater Horror
"Let Us Be Jolly As Long As We Can" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Levenson, Rose — audience fatality AF 2419
Levett/Levitt, Ernest/John — Iroquois usher/ticket taker survivor WS
Lewis, Belle — injured audience survivor AS
Lewis, Frank B — Iroquois Theater carpenter survivor WS 1517
Lewis, Harry B. — assistant states attorney at mayor Harrison's arrest ZBG 1557
Lewis, St. John — scenic curtain painter ZBG 2268
Lewke, Otto — physician affiliated with coroners office, at scene BG
Libonati, Ernesto M. — orchestra survivor PS 1413
Libonati, Michael Ernest — orchestra survivor PS 1414
Lickowitz, Elmer — Iroquois usher survivor, age 17, admitted running away from theater when fire started WS
Liddell, Beatrice — Pony Ballet, performer survivor PS 1703
Liebert, George Max — painting contractor who helped escapees ZBG 2258
Lietzau, Winifred — injured audience survivor, burned on face and arms AS
Lillian, Elois — ballet performer survivor PS 2543
Linchusky, Alma — audience injured (or Linsohusky, Linschumly or Leinschukt) (connected to Hansens in Racine?)  reported fatality initially AS
Linden, Eleanor Ella — audience fatality AF 2125
Lindley, Erasmus C. — defense attorney ZBG 1426
Lindsley, Minnie — not a victim but subject of peculiar story from Davenport sister BG
Little, C. — rescuer (head cook at Thompsons restaurant who went up a ladder on restaurant roof to help audience jump into his arms) BG
Little, Richard Henry — Chicago Tribune reporter who helped remove bodies from theater BG
Livingston, Alpha — audience survivor from Omaha, Nebraska AS
Livingston, Daisy E. — audience fatality AF 2264
Livingston, Jean B. — audience survivor AS 2261
Livingston, Lester — audience survivor AS 2259
Livingston, Madeline — audience survivor AS 2260
Livingston, Meyer — Klaw & Erlanger auditor BG
Lobdell, Adeline — audience survivor (b 1887) AS
Lloyd, Caroline "Carrie" Cloud — audience survivor AS 2622
Lloyd, John Leslie — audience survivor AS 2621
Long, Claude — advertising bill poster for Iroquois BG
Long, Helen — audience fatality AF 2269
Long, Kathryn — audience fatality AF 2270
Long, Marian — audience fatality AF 2271
Loomis, Angie — audience survivor AS 1399
Loughlin, Edward — Chicago building inspector ZBG 2272
Love, Margaret — audience fatality AF 1195
Lovett, Edward or Ernest — Iroquois usher survivor WS 2027
Lowitz, Minnie Heinemann —- audience fatality AF 2420
Lowitz, Rachel "Rae" — audience survivor AS 2421
Lozardy, Victor — see Victor Bozardt
Lucas, Lucy — audience survivor AS
Ludlow, Marjorie Ford — audience survivor AS 1686
Ludwig, Carolina "Lina" — audience fatality AF 1665
Ludwig, Eugenie "Gina" — audience fatality AF 1664
Ludwig, Hermann "Harry" — audience fatality AF 1662
Ludwig, Sarah "Sadie" — audience fatality AF 1663
Lukowitz — see Von Lukowitz
Lutiger, Eleanor — audience fatality AF 2273
Lutiger, Mary — seriously injured audience survivor AS 2274
Lutz, John, Harriet and Gertrude — plans cancelled, did not attend Iroquois BG
Lydston, Dr. George Frank — physician who directed doctors at John R. Thompson restaurant BG
Lyford, Calhoun Theodore — audience survivor AS 2584
Lyford, William Hartwell - audience survivor AS 2585
Lynch, Nellie — performer survivor PS 2544
Lytle, Ethel — Mr. Bluebeard dancer, performer survivor AS 2275
Lytle, Louise J. Moore. — assistant to Pony Ballet WS 2276
Lynchings & hangings in 1903 BG


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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