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Iroquois Theater victims and subjects Index M
Mac Harg, William — consulting engineer for city council theater ordinance committee ZBG 1614
Macrane, Gilbert — see Gilbert McLean
MacKay, Roland S. — audience fatality AF 1360
Madison Street BG 1170
Magin, Bonnie — performer survivor PS 2090
Maher, W. J. — Fuller employee who installed roof vent BG
Mahler, Edith L. — audience fatality AF 1351
Mahnken, John — criminal who falsely claimed body of Iroquois victim Lulu Greenwald ZBG 2277
"Ma Honey" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Malian, Mrs. — seriously injured audience survivor, possibly Celeste Maliano, or Carmella Malan, wives of Italian immigrants, Michael and Marcaro Malan AS
Maloney, Clara Matilde Peterson — audience fatality AF 2278
Malyon, Clifton — audience survivor AS 2280
Mann, Emma D. — audience fatality AF 2283
Mann, Joseph B. — defense attorney ZBG 1456
Manning, Purdy T. or Manning, T. — possible Iroquois Theater stage clearer BG
Map showing location of Chicago buildings involved in Iroquois Theater disaster BG 1089
Markey, Louis F. Jr & Sr. — incorrectly listed as victims, found safe BG
Marlowe, Dorothy "Dotty" — Pony Ballet performer survivor PS 1704
Marlowe, Eva — Pony Ballet performer survivor PS 1708
Mahoney / Maroney, Theresa "Lulu" — performer survivor PS 2547
Marquis, Rev William S. — pastor Broadway Presbyterian Rock Island, IL
    conducted services 		BG
"Marriage is Sublime" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Marshall, Arthur — Iroquois Theater stagehand survivor WS 1518
Marshall, Benjamin — Iroquois Theatre architect ZBG 2284
Marshall Field's store — many Iroquois Theater audience survivors fled to the department store to replace lost coats and receive first aid BG
Martin, Clara Campbell — audience survivor AS 2290
Martin, Dr. Daniel R. — audience survivor AS 2289
Martin, Erle — audience fatality AF 2286
Martin, Harold C. — audience fatality AF 2288
Martin, Margurite — performer survivor PS 2548
Martin, Robert B. — audience fatality AF 2287
Marx, May — audience fatality AF 1333
Marvyne, Mary Williams — injured audience survivor AS 1369
Marzein, Mary — see Mary Williams Marvyne
Mason, Marjorie — audience survivor AS 1275
Massoney, Frank John — Irqouois Theater stage carpenter / scene shifter survivor WS 1537
Matchette, Emily — audience fatality AF 2018
Mathews, William H. — Chicago Daily News reporter covering Iroquois Theater fire BG
Matthews, W. T. — worker at Northwestern ZBG 2458
Mavor, William — Chicago councilman ZBG 1604
Maxfield, Ella — possible audience survivor / possible hoax ZBG 2291
Maxwell, Alice Ripley — audience survivor AS 2578
Maxwell, Allison — audience survivor AS 2579
Maxwell, Robert Elliot — audience survivor AS 2580
Mayer, Levy — defense attorney ZBG 1457
Mayer, Simon - police department secretary and first responder ZBG 2523
Mayhew, Ella — see Ella Maxfield
Maypole, William — Chicago alderman who helped draft new theater ordinance ZBG 1605
Mazzanovich, Max — Mr. Bluebeard stage carpenter survivor WS 1500
Mazzette, Louis / Lewis / Ludwig - performer survivor PS 2514
McAdams, Mrs. Henry and daughter — reported as possible casualties to Chicago coroner's office, subsequently reported as inaccurate.
   While husband was jailed, charged with horse theft, his wife took their toddler daughter and fled from their home in Syracuse or
   Sandwich, IL to Chicago, and declined to respond to his attempts to contact them; unknown if they even attended.		 BG
McAllister, William J. — Chicago building department ZBG 1789
McAvoy, Dan — comedian who played Mr. Bluebeard on Broadway ZBG 2292
McCahill, Edmond D. — Chicago fireman BG
McCarthy, John F. — city collector testified in coroners trial ZBG 1559
McCarthy, Thomas J. — accused ghoul ZBG 1861
McCaslin, Estella L. — injured audience survivor AS 1940
McCaughan, Helen — audience fatality AF 2211
McChristie, Anna — audience fatality AF 2410
McClelland, Joseph — audience fatality AF 1584
McCleery, R. C. — Mr. Bluebeard set designer ZBG 2107
McClure, George — audience survivor AS 1933
McClure, Lawrence — audience fatality AF 1934
McClurg, Roy — See Lawrence R. McClure
McCloskey, John — Iroquois Theater stagehand survivor WS 1501
McComas, Duke Simpson — audience survivor AS 2582
McCutcheon, John T. Sad family 1903 Christmas cartoon ZBG 2293
McDonald, Viola — performer survivor PS 2509
McDonnell, John C. — Chicago fireman BG
McElligott, James W. — Chicago fireman BG
McEwen, Judge Willard M. — circuit court BG 2883
McGaffey, Ernest — mayor Harrison's secretary ZBG 1587
McGann, Lawrence Edward — acting Chicago mayor ZBG 1508
McGill, Elizabeth K. — audience fatality AF 2165
McGill, Martha — injured audience survivor AS 2164
McGunnigle, Mary e — audience fatality AF 2297
McGurn, John C. — audience survivor (actor: James C. Marlowe) AS
McInnes, Dr. Robert W. — slightly injured audience survivor AS 2298
McKay, Mary F. Johnson — injured audience survivor AS 2596
McKee, James W. — audience fatality AF 1185
McKenna, Bernardt — audience fatality AF 1242
McKenna, Amy / Amie Beder — audience fatality AF 1241
McLaughlin, William Lancaster — audience fatality AF 2411
McLean, Abbie — performer survivor PS 2545
McLean, Gilbert — theater scene shifter survivor WS 1542
McMillan, Mabel — audience fatality AF 2350
McMullen, William — stage worker survivor (also see Utility stairwell) WS 2072
McNally, John J. — playwright who rewrote libretto for American audiences BG
McNeil, Seppie — Pony Ballet performer survivor PS 1705
McNichols, Daisy Smith — audience survivor AS 2616
McNichols, Ernest S. — audience survivor AS 2615
McQueen, Thomas — Mr. Bluebeard stagehand survivor WS 1502
McSweeney, Capt. Dennis — firefighter (hook & ladder company 9)
McVickers Theater audience in 1901 BG 1152
McWeeney, Patrick D. — police lieutenant who jailed bad tempered rigger Kerr BG
McWilliams, William C. — volunteer rescuer BG
Mead, Lucille — audience fatality AF 1817
Mead, Mary E. Moak — audience fatality AF 2251
Meagher, Ellen — audience survivor AS 2300
Meagher, Maria T. — audience fatality AF 2299
Medical volunteers needed — relay alert messaging BG 1196
Meehan, Harry — performer survivor PS 2513
Meeker, Clinton G — reported entire family of 5 missing.  They weren't. BG
Mellen, L.M. — injured audience survivor (Elgin, IL) AS
Melz, M. L. — injured audience survivor AS
Memhard (or Menard), Albert A- audience survivor AS
Memhard, Stuart — audience survivor AS
Memorial Plaque — see Iroquois
Mendel, Augusta M. — audience fatality AF 2412
Menzer, Annie — audience fatality AF 1888
Merriam, Fannie E. Guthrie — audience fatality AF 1892
Merriman, Louise — audience survivor, slightly injured, wife of William A. AS
Merriman, Mildred — audience survivor AS
Methodist clergy versus theaters BG
Meyer, Leopold H. — coroners jury foreman ZBG 1450
Meyer, William H. — usher survivor WS 2024
Meyers, Elsa H. — audience fatality AF 2308
Michel family, Mrs. R.S., Ruth and Louise — audience survivors AS
Middleton, Kathleen — audience fatality AF 1746
Miller, Frank — Iroquois Theater WS 1516
Miller, Helen Koehn — audience fatality AF 2413
Miller, John "Johnny" H. — violin player in Iroquois orchestra — performer survivor PS
Miller, Mrs. Henry — injured audience survivor, Ontonagon, Michigan, burned and overcome by smoke AS
Miller, Willard C. — audience fatality AF 2415
Millikin or Milliken, Anna B. — audience survivor AS 2157
Mills, Clara B. — audience fatality AF 2416
Mills, Isabella — audience fatality AF 1698
Mills, Minnie Pearl Plant — audience fatality AF 1696
Mills, Ward — audience survivor AS 1699
Mingins, Clara W. — audience survivor AS 1975
Mingins, Mildred E. — audience survivor AS 1976
Minwegen, John — Chicago alderman ZBG 1606
Minwegen, Sophia E. — inaccurately reported as a fatality AS 1607
Mitchell, Dora — audience fatality AF 2309
Mitchell, Ruth — Either a teenage audience member or a chorus girl PS
Moak, Anna — audience fatality AF 2252
Moak, Orlena "Lena" — audience fatality AF 2253
Moberly, Edward — audience survivor AS 1949
Moloney, Alicia — audience fatality AF 2312
Monroe, Cora — audience survivor AS
Montgomery, Dr. H.L. — volunteer rescuer BG
Montague, Helen I. Johnson — audience survivor AS 2595
Montrose Cemetery monument — See Iroquois Theater Montrose Cemetery
Moody, Dr. Frank Adolph — audience survivor AS
Moody, Rosa — audience survivor AS 1386
Moohan, H. B. — improbable victim — death certificate not issued, no such
    person in 1900 U.S. Census, also checked Mohan, Mahan & H.B. 		BG
Moore, Beatrice — audience survivor AS 2153
Moore, Benjamin — audience fatality AF 1356
Moore, Catherine Ella Kittie Sayles — audience fatality AF 1357
Moore, Mary Farmer — audience fatality AF 1361
Moore, Matilda Hulda Christine — audience fatality AF 1364
Moore, Sibyl — audience fatality AF 1362
Moosman, Carrie — audience survivor AS 2445
Mora, Edward T. — performer survivor PS 2077
Moran, Helen Cora "Nellie" — audience survivor AS 2432
Moran, Thomas A. — defense attorney ZBG 1424
Morell, Gladys — audience survivor AS
Morgan, Andrew H. — audience survivor ( 496 Webster Avenue, b. 1880, England), Detroit AS
Morgan, Julia — audience survivor AS
Morgan, Myrtle — audience survivor (496 Webster Ave, b. 1860, m. Alfred Francis
    Morgan, England) mother of toddler Warren F. Morgan, sister of Marcella Warren, Detroit 		AS
Morgan, Nellie — audience survivor AS
Morgan, Warren F. Sr — audience survivor, Detroit AS
Morgan, Warren F. Jr — audience survivor, Detroit AS
Morris, Mabel A. — see Mabel Norris
Morrow, Sarah J. "Jennie" — audience survivor AS 2450
Mortell / Morrill, Mary — audience injured survivor AS
Mossler, Pauline — audience fatality AF 2187
"Mother Eve" aka "Stories Adam Told to Eve" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Motz, Jacob "Jake" — Iroquois Theater stage worker survivor WS 1519
Mowry, Fannie A. — audience survivor AS 2048
Mr. Bluebeard
    Mr. Bluebeard — cast list for 1903 Iroquois Theater engagement
    Mr. Bluebeard — costumes, primary designer
    Mr. Bluebeard — costumes aerialist gear
    Mr. Bluebeard — costumes, Drury Lane
    Mr. Bluebeard — costumes, salvaged
    Mr. Bluebeard — cinema
    Mr. Bluebeard — fires in multiple cities
    Mr. Bluebeard — music
    Mr. Bluebeard — song lyrics
     Mr. Bluebeard — orchestra in Chicago and composers
    Mr. Bluebeard — portion of performers not covered elsewhere 
    Mr. Bluebeard — programs, Iroquois
    Mr. Bluebeard — publicity, Knickerbocker Theater NYC
    Mr. Bluebeard — publicity, New York Times review
    Mr. Bluebeard — road company schedule in 1903
    Mr. Bluebeard — octet
    Mr. Bluebeard — Pony Ballet
    Mr. Bluebeard — storybook illustrations by Robinson, Heighway, Austen, Clarke and Dulac
    Mr. Bluebeard — synopsis
Mucker, C.G. — see Clinton Meeker
Muegher, Mary — injured audience survivor AS
Mueller family #1

Mueller, Barbarabell — audience survivor

 AS 2576

Mueller, Florence — audience survivor

 AS 2577

Mueller, Flossie Payne — audience survivor

 AS 2575
Mueller family #2

Mueller, Helen Ella — audience fatality

 AF 1902

Mueller, Emelia — audience fatality

 AF 1901
Mueller, Pauline — see Pauline Mueller Jacobson
Muir, Estelle Margery "Essie"  — audience fatality AF 2196
Muir, Eugenia "Eugie" Hewins — audience fatality AF 2195
Muir, Samuel A. — audience fatality AF 2194
Muker, C. G. — see Clinton Meeker
Muldoon, Rev. Peter J. — catholic bishop St. Charles Borromeo ZBG 2313
Mulligan, Amy Stillman — injured audience survivor AS 1993
Munholland, Josephine — audience fatality AF 2417
Murphy, Dewitt J. — audience fatality AF 2281
Murphy, John — newsboy reported to have sold 2,700 newspapers about Iroquois Theater fire in one hour BG
Murray, Charles — audience fatality AF 2314
Murray or Murry, Robert E. — Iroquois stationary engineer survivor WS 1811
Musham, William Henry — Chicago fire marshal ZBG 1574
Music - see Mr. Bluebeard