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Iroquois Theater victims and subjects Index W
Wachs, Ella Flentye — audience fatality AF 1402
Wade, James J. Jr. — owner of James J. Wade & Sons Company BG
Wagner, Cal — Iroquois Theater employee survivor WS 1532
Wagner, Mary Anna — audience fatality AF 1931
Wagons carrying the dead BG 1109
"Wake Up Mammy Malinda" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Waldman, Sam / Simon — audience fatality AF 2118
Wall, Helen — Mr. Bluebeard performer survivor PS 2537
Waldron, Anna — audience survivor AS 1984
Walker, Judge Charles M. — circuit court ZBG 1443
Walsh, Ethel — audience survivor AS 1773
Wann, Mrs. A.F. & daughter — audience survivors AS
Warden, Henry — London insurance theater fire protection advocate BG
Warner, Josephine — audience survivor AS
Warner, Robert — audience survivor, for a while AS
Warren, Bessie — performer kept home from stage by illness day of fire PS
Warren, Grace — ballet performer survivor PS
Warren, Marcella or Mariola — injured audience survivor (Detroit) AS
Washburne, Hempstead — mayor Carter Harrison's legal advisor ZBG 1555
Washington, Frieda J. — audience fatality AF 2121
Washington, Johnny N. — audience fatality AF 2122
Washington, Unidentified sibling Anna or Lawrence — audience survivor AS 2123
Watches stopped BG
Water problems at theater — see Iroquois Theater — water
Watkins, Edward — rescuer, passenger agent for Illinois Central RR BG
Wayburn, Ned — Mr. Bluebeard choreographer WS 1566
Wayland, Shipley — volunteer physician at scene of tragedy BG
Weber, Adolph — audience survivor AS 1982
Weber, Carolina — audience fatality AF 2396
Weber, John J. — audience survivor AS 2395
Weber, Johann Joseph — audience survivor AS 2444
Weber, Joseph — audience survivor AS 2443
Weber, Leona — audience survivor AS 1983
Weck, Erick — audience fatality (name spelling uncertain) AF 1903
"We Come From Dalmatia" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Weimers, Ida — audience fatality AF 1852
Weinberg, Rachel — audience survivor AS
Weinfeld, Hannah — audience fatality AF 2397
Weiskopf, Irma — audience fatality AF 2129
Weismann, L.A. — volunteer rescuer at Hallwood Cash Register ZBG 2589
"Welcome Fatima" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Wellington Hotel in Chicago at Wabash and Jackson BG 1228
Wells, Donald — audience fatality AF 1750
Wells, Livingston D. — audience survivor (spice salesman from Indianapolis) AS
Welton, Susie Alice — audience fatality AF 2398
Wendling, Peter — Chicago alderman ZBG 1612
Wermich, Maria Kautenberger — audience fatality AF 1643
Werskowsky — see Witkowsky, Yetta
West, Sherman — audience survivor AS
Wetmore, Marjorie — audience survivor AS
Wetmore, Frances Estella. — audience fatality AF 2399
Wey, Augusta Frederick Fred A. — observer ZBG 1824
"What A Beautiful World it Would Be" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Wheeler, Dr. Roy M. — audience survivor AS
Wheelock, Carrie — audience survivor (wife of George K. Wheelock, Chicago Sewer Bureau engineer) AS
"When the Colored Band Comes Marching Down the Street" — see Mr. Bluebeard music
Whitcomb, Anna Belle Holland — audience survivor AS 2204
Whitcomb, Henry D. — Bloomington, IL author who described scene as he imagined it BG
White, Florence O. — audience fatality AF 2232
White, Harriet "Hattie" — audience fatality AF 2400
White, Katherine — audience survivor AS
White, Mary Elizabeth Yawkey — audience survivor AS 2113
White & infant, Mrs. Hiram — never attended theater that day. Mistakenly listed in many victim lists BG
Whitehead, Virginia — audience survivor AS 1953
Whiteside, John Jay — audience survivor AS 2493
Whiteside, Ruby Mae Cady — audience survivor AS 2494
Whitford, Anna Belle Holland — audience survivor AS 2204
Whitford, Annabelle Moore — Mr. Bluebeard performer survivor PS 2095
Whitten, John — stagehand survivor WS 1533
Wickersham, Lillian "Liddie" Hammond — fatality AF 2463
Wiemer, Mrs. Thomas — see Ida Weimers
Wiertz, William — stage worker survivor WS 1568
Wigfall, Amelia — audience fatality AF 2009
Wilber, Carrie — misreported fatality BG
Wilber, Cyrus — Chicago fireman BG
Wilcox, Mrs. Eva M. — audience fatality AF 2401
Wild, Nellie — injured audience survivor AS 2403
Wild, Rita — audience fatality AF 2402
Wile, Aimee — audience survivor AS 1403
Wile, Harold — audience survivor AS 1404
Wile, Ruth — audience survivor AS 1405
Wilhartz, Eliza Stein — audience survivor AS
Williams, Edith — performer survivor PS 2083
Williams, Erwin — audience survivor, age 8 AS
Williams, George D. — Chicago building commissioner ZBG 2404
Williams, Grant — audience survivor, age 39 AS
Williams, Dr. Helen — audience survivor AS
Williams, Howard John — audience fatality AF 2225
Williams, Lydia E. Russell — audience survivor, age 35 AS
Williams, Moses — painting contractor at Northwestern BG
Williams, Norene — aerial ballet performer survivor PS 2556
Williams, Russell — audience survivor, age 11 AS
Wilmarth Company, W. T. — Iroquois Theater lighting supplier BG 2637
Wilson, Francis — see Theater Syndicate
Wilson — twelve possible survivors and improbable fatalities BG 2807
Wines, Edward J. — performer survivor PS 2084
Winder, Barry — audience fatality AF 2406
Winder, Paul — audience fatality AF 2405
Windfall, Mrs. A. C. — see Amelia Wigfall
Winslow, Charles E. — audience fatality AF 2407
Winterbotham, John R. — audience survivor AS 1954
Wire, Eva — see Eva Hire
Witherspoon, Robert L. — day labor worker hired to help clear theater BG
Witkowsky, Yetta — audience fatality AF 1849
Witz, Louis — owner of saloon, accused ghoul conspirator ZBG 1862
Wizard of Oz ZBG 1162
Wolf, Sarah "Sadie" Leopold — audience fatality AF 2186
Wolff, Harriet — audience fatality AF 1839
Woods, Caroline Emma — audience fatality AF 2371
Wood, Nina — chorus girl survivor PS
Woodstock, Illinois survivors BG
Woodward, Edith Norton — audience survivor AS
Woodward, Matthew C. — lyricist Let Us Swear It In Pale Moonlight ZBG 2087
Work, Mrs. J. W. — injured audience survivor AS
Wright, Frank Lloyd Jr. — audience survivor AS 2127
Wright, John — audience survivor AS 2126
Wright, Neely Cooper — audience survivor AS 2504
Wunderlich, Helen M. — audience fatality AF 1806
Wunderlich, Libbie Perle — audience fatality AF 1805
Wynne, Ethel — performer survivor PS 2085


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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