The victims were mostly women and children who were attending a matinee. Back in 2011, I wrote about the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, 30 December 1903, and … Five hundred and seventy-one lives were destroyed by fire in the Iroquois Theater in the fifteen minutes between 3:15 and 3:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
Of the dead, less than 100 were identified last night. Eleanora Lutiger spent over sixty years overcoming obstacles and protecting her children but was defeated by … 524 memorials Victims of the Iroquois Theatre Fire On December 30, 1903, 602 people died in one of the worst fire disasters in American history, at the Iroquois Theatre in downtown Chicago. Mary Lutiger survived the Iroquois Theater fire but lost her career, senses and her mother. Horrific Iroquois Theater Fire Killed Hundreds In The Loop 116 Years Ago Today Chicago is a city marked by fire, but today the Iroquois fire has been all but forgotten, even though it remains the worst theater fire and the worst single-building fire in U.S. history. On Monday, 27 November 1903, the brand new Iroquois Theater, an “absolutely fireproof” theater, opened in Chicago at 24-28 Randolph (between State and Dearborn streets). Of the unidentified nearly all were so badly burned that recognition was impossible.