Showing Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 by Nat Brandt
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Chicago Death Trap 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 horri... Full description