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قراءة كتاب "Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror
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"Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Page | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| THE STORY OF THE FIRE | 33 |
| Wave of Flame Greets Audience—Few Realize Appalling Result—Drop Where They Stand—Many Heroes Are Developed—Dead Piled in Heaps—Exits Were Choked with Bodies—Survey Scene with Horror—Find Bushels of Purses. | |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| FIRST AID TO THE INJURED AND CARE FOR THE DEAD | 51 |
| Great Piles of Charred Bodies Found Everywhere in the Theater—Moan Inspires Workers in Mad Effort to Save—None Left Alive in Gallery—Dead and Dying Carried into Nearby Restaurant by Scores—Terrible Reality Comes to Awestricken Crowd—One Life Brought Back from Death—One Hundred Feet in Air, Police Carry Injured Across Alley—Crowds of Anxious Friends—Balcony and Gallery Cleared—Finance Committee of City Council Acts Promptly. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| TAKING AWAY AND IDENTIFYING THE DEAD | 67 |
| Heartrending Scenes Witnessed at the Undertaking Establishments—Friends and Relatives Eagerly Search for Loved Ones Missing After Theater Holocaust. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| SCENES OF HORROR AS VIEWED FROM THE STAGE | 77 |
| Story of How a Small Blaze Terminated in Terrible Loss—Orchestra Plays in Face of Death—Clown Proves a Hero—All Hope Lost for Gallery. | |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| EXCITING EXPERIENCES IN THE FIRE | 86 |
| Experience of Chicago University Men—Bishop Braves Danger in Heroic Work of Rescue—Women and Four Children Suffer—Learns Children Have Escaped—Finds His Daughter—Mr. Field's Narrative—Narrow Escapes of Young and Old—Pulls Women from Mass on Floor. | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| HEROES OF THE FIRE | 94 |
| Piles of Dead in the Gallery—Eddie Foy's Heroism—An Elevator Boy Hero—Two Balcony Heroes—The Musical Director's Story—Child Saves His Brother. | |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE—THE ASBESTOS CURTAIN AND THE LIGHTS | 105 |
| Account of the Fire's Origin—Were Electric Lights Turned Out?—Statement of Messrs. Davis and Powers, Managers of the Theater—First Reliable Statement as to Why the Curtain Did Not Come Down—Another Story as to Why the Curtain Did Not Lower—The Theater Fireman's Narrative—The Stage Carpenter—The Chief Electrical Inspector's Tale—One of the Comedians Speaks—About the Lights. | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| SUGGESTIONS OF ARCHITECTS AND OTHER EXPERTS AS TO AVOIDING LIKE CALAMITIES | 116 |
| Robert S. Lindstrom's Suggestions—The Architect Speaks—Examination by Architectural Editor—Proposed Precautions for New York Theaters. | |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| THIRTY EXITS, YET HUNDREDS PERISH IN AWFUL BLAST | 123 |
| Horrible Sight Met the Firemen upon Entering Auditorium—The Gallery Horror—Girl's Miraculous Escape—An Account from the Boxes—Inspection After the Fire—A Young Heroine—A Narrow Escape—Finds Wife in Hospital—A Miraculous and Unconscious Escape—Little Girl's Marvelous Escape—Four Generations Represented—Daughters and Granddaughters Gone. | |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| HOW THE NEW YEAR WAS USHERED IN | 137 |
| Mourning in Every Street—Noise Seems a Sacrilege—Mayor Asks for Silence—Merriment is Subdued—City of Mourning—Business World in Mourning. | |
| CHAPTER XI. | |