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Lest We Forget: Chicago’s Awful Theater Horror

by Marshall Everett

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  1. 1Epigraph — Note
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Memorial Prayer
  4. 4Memorial Hymn
  5. 5Poem by a Child Victim
  6. 6Verdict of Coroner’s Jury
  7. 7Chapter I — The Story of the Fire
  8. 8Chapter II — First Aid to the Injured and Care for the Dead
  9. 9Chapter III — Taking Away and Identifying the Dead
  10. 10Chapter IV — Scene of Horror as Viewed From the Stage
  11. 11Chapter V — Exciting Experiences in the Fire
  12. 12Chapter VI — Heroes of the Fire
  13. 13Chapter VII — The Origin of the Fire — The Asbestos Curtain and the…
  14. 14Chapter VIII — Suggestions of Architects and Other Experts as to Av…
  15. 15Chapter IX — Thirty Exits, Yet Hundreds Perish in Awful Blast
  16. 16Chapter X — How the New Year Was Ushered In
  17. 17Chapter XI — A Sabbath of Woe
  18. 18Chapter XII — What of the Players?
  19. 19Chapter XIII — Other Holocausts
  20. 20Chapter XIV — Stories and Narratives of the Holocaust
  21. 21Chapter XV — Society Women and Girls’ Clubs
  22. 22Chapter XVI — Eddie Foy’s Sworn Testimony
  23. 23Chapter XVII — Effect of the Fire Near and Far
  24. 24Chapter XVIII — Suggestions for Safe Theaters
  25. 25Chapter XIX — The Sworn Testimony of the Survivors
  26. 26Chapter XX — Lack of Fire Safeguards
  27. 27Chapter XXI — Iron Gates, Death’s Ally
  28. 28Chapter XXII — Danced in Presence of Death
  29. 29Chapter XXIII — Join to Avenge Slaughter of Innocents
  30. 30Chapter XXIV — Awful Prophecy Fulfilled
  31. 31Chapter XXV — List of the Dead
  32. 32Chapter XXVI — The Story of the Burning of Baltimore

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