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Iroquois Theater victims and subjects Index S
Sachett, W - see Sackett, Lester
Sackett, Angelina Steward — audience survivor AS 2065
Sackett, Helen — audience survivor AS 2063
Sackett, Mary Lee Woleben — audience survivor AS 2062
Sackett, Lester — audience survivor AS 2061
Sallers, William — Iroquois staff fireman WS 2316

       Sallers claims gates did not cause deaths

 BG 1001

       Sallers recommended by Campion

 BG 1075
Sailor, Helen — audience survivor AS 1774
Sammons, Mabel — audience survivor, from Winona, MN AS
Samuel, Mattie Hays — audience survivor from Louisville, KY AS 1465
Sanborn, Grata Eugenia "Jean" — audience survivor AS 2044
Sanborn, Harold — audience survivor AS 2043
Sanchez, Frank J. — Couch Place rescuer, employee of C. H. Slack Co. BG
Sands, Amelia T. — audience fatality AF 1807
Sands, Jessie "Kitty" — audience fatality AF 1808
Saville, Warren E. — audience fatality AF 1298
Sawyer, Mrs. J. — Improbable audience fatality, death certificate not issued BG
Saxton, George — see George Schneider
Sayles, Willard — former Iroquois usher ZBG 2059
Sayre, Carrie — audience fatality AF 2006
Schaffner, Minnie H. — audience fatality AF 2355
Schalck Louise — audience survivor AS 2480
Schalck Michael — injured audience survivor AS 2479
Schedule, performance — see Mr. Bluebeard road company
Schlesinger & Mayer store — see Carson Pirie
Schmidt, John — Iroquois Theater stagehand survivor WS 1525
Schmidt, Rosamond — audience fatality AF 2215
Schneider disambiguation BG 1209
Schneider, Dora J. Mueller — audience fatality AF 2365
Schneider, Dora J. Mueller — audience fatality AF 2364
Schneider, George Griner / Grenier — audience fatality AF 2356
Schoenbeck, Anna — audience fatality AF 2357
Schoenbeck, Elvina — audience fatality AF 2358
Schreiner, Arlene — audience fatality AF 1960
Schreiner, Irma May — audience fatality AF 1961
Schreiner, Mamie Ludlow — audience fatality AF 1959
Schuettler, Herman F. — Chicago assistant police chief BG
Schulte, Lillia — possible cast member PS
Schroeder, Harry / Henry — performer survivor PS
Schweitzer, Emma — audience survivor AS 1440
Scott, Clarence Burr — audience fatality AF 1745
Scully, John E. — alderman who sold Iroquois Kilfyre tubes ZBG 1470
Seating — see Iroquois Theater
Sebree, James K. — see Saratoga Hotel and Restaurant
Secrist, Hattie — audience fatality AF 2366
Secrist, June — audience fatality AF 2367
Sederberg, John J. — Chicago policeman BG
Seeger, Henry — dancing performer survivor PS 2553
Seelig, Mrs. D. — injured audience survivor, dangerously burned AS
Seely, Mrs. M. or D — injured audience survivor (duplicate of Seelig?) AS
Sexton, George — see George Schneider
Sexton, William H. — assistant corporate counsel advising theater ordinance committee of city council ZBG 1615
Seymour, Fred "Slim" — boss Iroquois flyman, taken home sick from the Iroquois the day of the fire, with Joe Daugherty filling in for him WS 1503
Seymour, Joseph — Iroquois usher fatality WF 1812
Seymour, William T. "Harry" — performer survivor PS 2102
Shabad, Myrtle — audience fatality AF 1938
Shabad, Theodore — audience fatality AF 1939
Shaffer, Carroll — audience survivor AS 1987
Shane, S.I. — volunteer rescuer BG
Shean, Lou — chorus member survivor (same Lou Shean related to Marx brothers?) PS
Shedd, Katherine — audience survivor AS 1951
Shedd, Charles — audience survivor AS 1952
Sheridan, Andrew J. — audience fatality AF 2368
Sherman, Edward — Mr. Bluebeard property man survivor WS 2039
Sherman House Hotel — temporary emergency center BG 1213
Shiners or Shinners, Alice — audience fatality AF 1851
Shott, Fred — Iroquois Theater stagehand, rigger, survivor BG
Shott, Fred — Iroquois Theater stagehand, rigger, survivor WS 1526
Sickford, Harry — Mr. Bluebeard performer survivor PS 2554
Sickinger, Frank — Iroquois stage worker survivor WS 1527
Sidney, Violet — performer survivor PS 2550
Siegel, Henry — Iroquois Theater stagehand, rigger, survivor WS 2070
Sill, Lucy — audience fatality AF 2369
Simpson, Ada G. Markham Litch — audience fatality AF 2370
Sims, Mabel Holland — audience survivor AS 2205
Simsrott, Albert F. — Chicago policeman ZBG 1970
Singer, Albert — audience survivor AS 2050
Skarupa, Nellie — audience fatality, name probably false AF 2422
Skin grafts BG 1139
Slater, Una — audience survivor AS 2647
Sleck, William — performer survivor PS 2081
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast BG
Slosson, Frank — audience survivor AS 2003
Smeal, Florence A. — audience survivor AS 1271
Smith, Anna — audience survivor AS
Smith, Ben M. — superior court judge ZBG 1462
Smith, Bruce — Mr. Bluebeard set designer ZBG 2106
Smith, Charles F or T. — Iroquois Theater stagehand survivor WS 1528
Smith, Eunice M. — audience survivor AS 2459
Smith, George E. — audience survivor AS
Smith, Maude Ganong — audience fatality AF 2175
Smith, Maurine W — audience fatality AF 2176
Smith, Robert — heroic Iroquois elevator operator survivor AS 1529
Smith, Ruth Margaret "Bonnie" — audience fatality AF 2372
Smith, William J. — fireman AS
Smith, William Sooy — civil engineer who studied Iroquois after fire ZBG 1448
Snow, Bernard — Chicago alderman ZBG 1611
Snow, Harry — volunteer rescuer at Hallwood Cash Register ZBG 2590
Spalding, Herman — Chicago health official who brought hundreds of medical personnel to scene of fire ZBG 2301
Solomon, Benny — opera glass seller BG
Solomon, Frederick C. — composer of Mr. Bluebeard music for American audiences ZBG 1709
Solon, Frank W. — assistant superintendent street cleaning ZBG 1506
Songbirds of Melody Lane" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Sorge, Mrs. Adolf. — audience survivor (husband an engineer) AS
Spankuch, Otto — deputy coroner who served warrant on mayor Harrison ZBG 1550
Specht, Eva — audience fatality AF 2334
Specht, Iona — audience fatality AF 2333
Spencer, Charles C. — attorney for victim damage suits ZBG 2599
Spencer, Gertrude Coale — audience survivor AS
Spencer, Josephine — audience fatality AF 2217
Spiker, C. A. — injured audience survivor from OH AS
Spindler, Burdett — audience fatality AF 1656
Spindler, Etta Ella Johnson — audience fatality AF 1655
"Spoony Mooney Night" — see Mr. Bluebeard
Spring, Edwina C. — audience fatality AF 2375
Sprague, E. — audience survivor AS
Spring, Ellen Newton — audience fatality AF 2374
Spring Florence Scovell — audience fatality AF 2376
Spring, Winthrop N. Sr — audience fatality AF 2373
Springer, Alice — injured audience survivor AS
Springer, Joseph — physician affiliated with coroners office, at scene BG
Sprogle, Howard O. — defense attorney ZBG 1427
Squire, Olive E. — audience fatality AF 2282
Stafford, Bessie E. — audience fatality AF 2326
Stafford, Rose Harbaugh — injured audience survivor AS 2172
Stagehands at 1903 Iroquois Theater BG
Stage vents BG
Stage work in a 1902 theater BG 2808
Stage workers at tavern when fire started? BG
Stagg, Amos — U of C coach of 2 survivors BG 1050
Stahl, John P. — Chicago fireman BG
Staininger, Alice — injured audience survivor AS 2465
Staininger, Nellie — severely injured audience survivor AS 2464
Staininger, Thomas — possible audience injured survivor AS
Stanger, Wesley A. — author Rescued from Fiery Death ZBG 2475
Stanhope, Leon — Chicago building inspector ZBG 1858
Stark, Mathilde Minnie Givin — audience fatality AF 2377
Steinbeck, Elizabeth — audience survivor AS 2460
Steinmetz, Emma Garner — audience fatality AF 1864
Stephenson, Mary E. Baldwin - performer survivor PS 2056
Stern, Ernest — audience survivor, trial witness, 3423 S. Park, related to distiller Harry Amson Stern AS
Stern, Francis — not an Iroquois attendee, deceased day before fire, on 12/29, so name appeared in newspaper lists BG
Stern, Martin — audience fatality from Saukville, WI AF 2379
Stevens, Benjamin and Thomas S. — attorneys for Mr. Bluebeard cast members BG
Stevens, Viola Plowden — audience survivor AS 2598
Stevenson, B.P. — injured audience survivor (Madison, WI) AS
Stewart, Mary Elizabeth Sullivan — audience survivor AS 2424
Stewart, Miss — see Ella Sullivan
Stillman, Cara — audience fatality AF 1991
Stillman, Minna — not at theater as reported ZBG 1992
Stirling, Mrs. Henry and two children — audience survivors AS 2982
Stoddard, Donald Austin — audience fatality AF 2380
Stoddard, Zadel "Della" — audience fatality AF 2381
Stranger, Nellie — injured audience survivor AS
Stranhope, Nellie — injured audience survivor AS
Stratford Hotel BG
Stratman, Ruth — audience fatality AF 1572
Stratton, DeForest A. — injured audience survivor AS 2000
Stratton, Gladys Mary "Mattie" — injured audience survivor AS 2001
Straus / Strause — also see Strouse
Straus governess, identify unknown — audience survivor AS
Straus, Louise — audience survivor AS 2266
Straus, Madeline — audience survivor AS 2265
Strawbridge, Mary Adele Adella Hammon — audience fatality AF 1187
Strawbridge, Mabel — audience survivor AS 1188
Strong, Elizabeth K. — audience fatality AF 2145
Strong, Florence May — audience fatality AF 2144
Strong, James — audience survivor AS 2143
Strouse, Jack E. — performer survivor PS 2082
Stuart – see Stewart
Studley, Rev. George H. — audience fatality AF 2352
Sturgis, Charles L. — Iroquois stage worker survivor WS
Suetsch — see Jeanette Quetsch
Supernumeraries & child actors BG
Sullivan, Ella — audience fatality AF 2423
Sullivan, James — audience survivor AS 2496
Suiter, Angelina David -feared victim but at different theater ZBG 1624
Sutton, Harry P. — audience fatality AF 1766
Suttler, Mrs. L. J. — see Edith Tuttle
Svenson / Swenson, B.H. or B.V. — audience injured (professor of engineering at University of Wisconsin), severely burned on face and shoulders AS
Swartz, Frances Irene — audience fatality AF 1681
Swartz, Marjorie — audience fatality AF 1682
Swayze, Eloise Gertrude — audience fatality AF 1775
Sweeney, Charles — stage flyman survivor WS 1504
Swenie, Denis J. — Chicago fire chief 1879-1901 BG 2606
Swenson, Bernard V. — audience survivor AS
Swick, William — injured audience survivor ZBG 2111
Swift, Anna May — injured audience survivor AS
Swift, Georgia — audience survivor AS
Sykes, Jerome — Billionaire cast — funeral in progress when fire started, attended by Iroquois Theater manager ZBG 1743
Sylvester, Electa — audience fatality AF 1345
Syndicate — see Theater Syndicate
Synopsis of Mr. Bluebeard play — see Mr. Bluebeard synopsis


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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