Turners gymnasts were among Iroquois Theater victims

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Milwaukee 1904 newspaper story about Turners in Iroquois Theater fire

Marshall Everett on Turners in Iroquois Theater book

Tuirner Association story about Iroquois Theater fire victims

Two Chicago Turners, James Schneider and Herman Dreisel, died in the 1903 Iroquois Theater fire. Both were of German heritage and got to Chicago by way of Clinton, Massachusetts and St. Paul Minnesota. In Chicago they taught in public schools and at Turnverein gymnasiums.

They attended the theater matinee with their wives and family members of Dreisel's wife who were visiting in Chicago over the Christmas holiday from their home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Six in the party died in the theater auditorium and one, James Schneider, made it out and to a hospital where he died from severe injuries.

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