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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]
Prinzler had been in Chicago on December 30, 1903, and, by some fortunate twist of fate, escaped becoming a victim of the tragic Iroquois Theatre Fire which claimed 600 lives. [3] Prinzler, personally moved by the experience and loss of life, committed his thinking to developing door hardware that could remain locked from the outside while ...
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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The Palisades and Eaton infernos have decimated more than 30 historic architectural structures in what preservationists are saying is the single worst loss of properties in the L.A.’s history.
They were part owners of the new Iroquois Theater in Chicago, which suffered a catastrophic fire in 1903 that resulted in more than 600 deaths and brought Klaw & Erlanger bitter criticism. In the same year they opened their flagship New Amsterdam Theater in New York, where the Aerial Gardens became the longtime stage for the Ziegfeld Follies. [1]