Like the disaster of the Titanic nine years later, which was considered “unsinkable”, the Iroquois Theater was advertised on it’s playbills as “absolutely fireproof”. The memorial is the new Iroquois Memorial Emergency Hospital at 87 Market Street, which was dedicated yesterday and which was erected with funds raised by the Iroquois Memorial Association. The investigation showed that the fire was sparked by an arc light which ignited scenery curtains. Chicago experienced the worst theater fire in U.S. history. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people, two thirds of whom were women and children, were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob's failed attempt to escape. Haunting Iroquois Theatre Photo Details Posted on April 16, 2014 November 16, 2015 by adam I’ve been examining the big, big panorama of the Iroquois Theatre after the fire that you can download from the Library of Congress – the one taken just days after Dec 30, 1903, when a fire there killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 people. It remains the fifth deadliest fire in U.S. history. THE LOOP — Hidden away in a corner of the City Hall lobby is a bronze bas-relief tablet dedicated to the victims of the Iroquois Theater fire, which took place 113 years ago today.

The Iroquois Theater opens and debuts its first show, Mr. Bluebeard. Chicago Iroquois Theater Fire 1903, Chicago, IL. Mr. Blue Beard, Iroquois Theatre, 1903. Built at a cost of $1.1 million to host theatrical extravaganzas produced by Klaw & Erlanger.

On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. Seven years after the Iroquois Theater fire, in which 600 persons lost their lives, Chicago’s long planned memorial of the catastrophe was dedicated. December 30, 1903: A fire tears through the Iroquois Theater. Chicago death trap : the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903. Source: Historic Programs Digital Collection, Special Collections. The theater management was required to practice fire drills with ushers and theater personnel. This definition is mild when placed in the context of the Chicago’s Iroquois Theater Fire of 1903. The Brooklyn Theatre fire was a catastrophic theatre fire that broke out on the evening of December 5, 1876 in the city of Brooklyn (now a borough of New York City).The fire took place at the Brooklyn Theatre, near the corner of Washington and Johnson streets, with over a thousand guests attending. The conflagration killed at least 278 individuals, with some accounts reporting more than 300 dead.