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The fire caused 602 deaths and 250 non-fatal injuries. [1] It ranks as the worst theater fire in the United States, surpassing the carnage of the Brooklyn Theatre fire of 1876, which claimed at least 278 lives. [2] For nearly a century, the Iroquois Theatre fire was the deadliest single-building disaster in American history. [3]
A very early example of a safety curtain installation in the United States was at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre (New York City) which opened in 1873. [7] Chicago's 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire resulted in over 600 deaths when the theater's safety curtain got stuck midway down, along with other structural deficiencies in the building. [8]
1903 – Iroquois Theater fire, Chicago, Illinois, on December 30, at least 600 died. 1904 – January fire in the Turin National University Library, Turin, Italy, resulted in serious damage to the Manuscripts Department. 1904 – Sibley fire, in Rochester, New York, on February 26. [5]
The Great Chicago Fire, its 150th anniversary approaching Oct. 8, deserves attention, but this has always been — more so than any place I can think of — a city defined by fires, punctuating ...
The cemetery is also the final resting place of 64 victims of the Iroquois Theatre fire, in which over 600 people died. Several graves, gravestones and monuments from the old City Cemetery, originally located in what is now Lincoln Park were relocated to Rosehill Cemetery.
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Anyway, so I went back and read the cited source. Nowhere in Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 does Nat Brandt state that the corpses were piled 10 high. The reality was much worse than the article's previous "10 high" - he states the following(in the 2006 version, so the pagination might be different from the 2003 edition):