Website with 675+ pages devoted to 1903 Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago

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Audience stories	Performers: pg 1 pg 2
Fire in court	Stage workers
Life in 1903 pg 1 pg 2	Theater owners
Municipal response	Theater structure
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Awash in Bartletts

The name Bartlett appears frequently in reference to the Iroquois fire:

Bartlett was the maiden name of Iroquois theater co-owner, and wife of manager Will J. Davis—Jessie Bartlett Davis. For publicity purposes, celebrity contralto Jessie always included her maiden name.
Prosperous and influential Chicago industrialist, Adolphus C. Bartlett, wrote to the AFL to object to reports of bad behavior by striking livery drivers immediately after the fire. Adolphus's brother, Frederick Clay Bartlett, created murals in Chicago city council chambers.
William Alfred Bartlett, pastor at Congregational church, was one of many Chicago ministers who addressed the fire in their first sermon after the fire.
William Bartlett's wife, son and daughter died at the Iroquois.
The maiden name of Iroquois victim, Elma Julia Adamek, was Bartlett.
Among the victims were people from a village west of Chicago, Bartlett, Illinois.
A hardware store that donated lanterns and supplies to the Iroquois rescue effort was named Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co.