what I'm reading 📚... One Afternoon at the Iroquis

this is the most flammable goddamn scenery I ever saw...Will J. Davis, Iroquois Theater Owner I came in from Apple River to see the sights in Chicago, D. W. Dimmick sighed. I have seen all I can stand. a rather stout woman went down, someone stepped on her skirts, crowd knocked her down the stairs. she weighed over 180 +30 or more pounds of winter street clothing. used her steel tipped umbrella to break glass and made it out alive. bodies disappeared. bodies were burnt, disfigured, trampled, mangled, missing clothing. some couldn't be identified.