Contents Page R 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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Radcliffe, Anna / Annie — audience fatality	AF 1964
Radtk / Radtkey, Orville — injured audience survivor	AS
Rafter, Adele — performer survivor	PS 2092
Rains, John Kenton — audience survivor	AS 2492
Randall, Zula L. — audience survivor	AS 2614
Rankin, Caroline Louise- audience fatality	AF 1896
Rankin, Martha Tupper Merriam — audience fatality	AF 1895
Raymer, Abigail Abbie — audience survivor	AS 1327
Raymer, Alice Gallagher — audience survivor	AS 1592
Raymer, Ellen May Gallagher — audience survivor	AS 1591
Raymer, Mary Gallagher — audience survivor	AS 1590
Raymer, Walter — Chicago alderman and father of four survivors	ZBG 1610
Rattey / Radke, William A. — audience fatality	AF 2339
Rattray, Harry — Iroquois usher survivor	WS 2033
Rausch, Otto — Fuller Construction defendant	BG
Raving — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Raymond, Clifford S. — Chicago Tribune reporter who helped remove bodies from theater	BG
Rea, Fred H. — Northwestern observer or plank rescuer	ZBG 2455
Realization — April 22, 1916 silent film about Iroquois theater fire, produced by American Film Manufacturing Company, distributed by Mutual Film, directed by Tom Ricketts with cast of 700, starring Gayne Whitman, Vivian Rich, George Periolat, Louise Lester, Edna Frawley and Joseph Beaudry. 35mm, 3 Spherical reels, Staged in a Santa Barbara theater.	BG
Rear, William H. — theater usher survivor	WS
Reed, Elizabeth — newspaper journalist	BG
Reed, Leland / Leonard — Iroquois romance gone wrong	ZBG 2302
Reed, Nellie — performer fatality — see Grigolatis
Reeves, Leon G. — Iroquois billposter survivor	WS 1524
Regensburg, Hazel — audience fatality	AF 2263
Regensburg, Adelle "Addie" — audience fatality	AF 2262
Reid, Clara E. Marr — audience fatality	AF 2409
Reid, Col. William M. — audience fatality	AF 2408
Reidy, Anna — audience fatality	AF 2295
Reidy, Eleanor Nellie — audience fatality	AF 2296
Reidy, Mary — audience fatality	AF 2294
Reimers, Fred — audience survivor	AS 2341
Reinhart, W.W. — injured audience survivor	AS
Reinhold, LeRoy — audience fatality	AF 2340
Reiss, Erna — audience fatality	AF 1720
Reiss, Ernest — audience fatality	AF 1719
Reiss, John C. — audience survivor	AS
Reiss, Marian — audience fatality	AF 1718
Reiter, Maud — audience survivor	AS 1243
Reiter, Irene — audience fatality (sister to Maria Pet Bell)	AF 1245
Rember, Max — volunteer rescuer	BG
Remsert, C. L. — injured audience survivor	AS
Rescued from Fiery Death book — See Stanger
Revasey, Lucy — dancing performer survivor	PS 2552
Revell, Margaret — audience survivor	AS
Reynolds, Barbara L. Stang — audience fatality	AF 2234
Reynolds, Dora Lucile — audience fatality	AF 1571
Reynolds, Dora Thomas — audience survivor	AS 1570
Reynolds, Emma Josephine — audience fatality	AF 2235
Rice, Victor S. — audience survivor	AS 1272
Richards, Johnson — year later learned his estranged wife had not died in fire	BG
Richards, Lois — performer survivor	PS 2078
Richardson, Arthur H. — audience survivor	AS 1676
Richardson, Reverend Henry Lewis — audience fatality	AF 1675
Richter, Frank — policeman who worked at scene	ZBG 2629
Ricketts, Elizabeth Clingen — see Clingen
Rife, Jennie Johnson — audience fatality	AF 1654
Rimes, Bertha P. Luff — audience fatality	AF 2097
Rimes, Dr. Mervin B. — audience fatality	AF2096
Rimes, Lloyd B — audience fatality	AF 2100
Rimes, Martin L. — audience fatality	AF 2099
Rimes, Myron L. — audience fatality	AF 2098
Roche, Michael — fireman survivor	ZBG 1314
Robbins, Ruth — audience fatality	AF 1989
Robert, C.T. — injured audience survivor	AS
Roberts, Reverend Charles L. — audience fatality	AF 2351
Roberts, Theodore — audience fatality	AF 1816
Robertson, Ada — Pony Ballet performer survivor	PS 1707
Robinson, Minnie — audience fatality	AF 2353
Rodke, William — injured audience survivor	AS
Rohan, Andrew — police lieutenant participated in arrest of coroner's defendants	ZBG 1551
Romayne/ Romaine Elsie — performer survivor	PS 2079
Rogers, Rose Karasck — audience fatality	AF 2354
Roof vents — see Iroquois Theater
Rosebaum, John — audience survivor (Waveland, IN)	AS
Rosebaum, Ada- audience survivor (Waveland, IN)	AS
Rosenthal, Moritz — defense attorney	ZBG 1425
Rothe, Lillian — audience fatality	AF 1765
Rothmann, William — assistant legal counsel to Chicago fire department	ZBG 1445
Rottman, Henry "Harry" J. — audience survivor	AS
Rottman, Charlotte Thomas. — audience survivor	AS
Rowland, Bertha Feil — audience survivor	AS
Roycroft Press	BG 2677
Rubly, Louise Timpel — audience fatality	AF 1854
Ruhlman, Clara — audience fatality	AF 1871
Russell, D. A. — audience survivor, mgr National Life Insurance Pittsburgh office	AS
Russell, John J. — performer survivor	PS 2080
Rutiger, Mrs. Eleanor — see Mary Lutiger
Ryan, Joseph E. G. — Iroquois and Illinois press secretary	WS
Ryburn, Ebson — rescuer (stockbroker, 3449 Prairie Ave)	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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