Chicago Death Trap Brandt Nat
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were…
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On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob s failed attempt to escape. In Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903, Nat Brandt provides a detailed chronicle of this horrific event to assess not only the titanic tragedy of the fire itself but also the municipal corruption and greed that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke and ash afterwards.Advertised as absolutely fireproof, the Iroquois was Chicago s most modern playhouse when it opened in the fall of 1903. With the approval of the city s building department, theater developers Harry J. Powers and William J. Davis opened the theater prematurely to take
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