December 5, 2025
Tag: 1903
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The Iroquois Theatre Fire
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Chicago, December 30, 1903. Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. That’s the way the lead story in the Chicago Sun-Times began on the morning of December 31, 1903. A grusome story of death and suffering that need not have happened.…
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July 23, 2023 5 Comments
It may be that hundreds of Civil War stories have gone unnoticed by historians. Except for the watchful eye of two Connecticut soldiers who served with the Union Army in the Charleston area, during the war, this story of “The Swamp Angel” is one we would never know about.