Iroquois Theatre fire

When

30 Dec 1903

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

41.88° N, 87.63° W

Description

deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history

Deaths

605

1903 building fire in Chicago, Illinois

The Iroquois Theatre fire was a catastrophic building fire in Chicago, Illinois, that broke out on December 30, 1903, during a performance attended by 1,700 people. The fire caused 602 deaths and 250 non-fatal injuries. It ranks as the worst theater fire in the United States, surpassing the carnage of the Brooklyn Theatre fire of 1876, which claimed at least 278 lives.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в результате пожара в театре «Ирокез» в американском городе Чикаго погибло более 600 человек, 250 человек получили травмы и ранения”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page