Morris and Jennie (Blum) Eger, parents
Rose Bloom, sister
Marian Reiss, sister
Ernest and Erna Reiss, nephew and niece
Emil Eger, brother
Daughter of Morris and Jennie (Blum) Eger. Sabine and her sisters Rose Bloom and Marian Reiss, along with her nephew and niece Ernest and Erna Reiss, were all killed in the Iroquois Theatre Fire. Sabine was 29 years old at the time of her death.
The Eger family had emigrated from Czechoslovakia, Austria in two groups, one in 1885 and a second in 1891. Morris Eger (1834-1915) married Jennie Blum (1835-1905) in 1860. Morris's company, Eger & Co., operated a pair of cigar stores in Chicago, specializing in Havana cigars. Several of his sons worked in the stores. In 1903 Sabine Eger (b.1875) lived with her parents at 3760 Indiana Avenue in Chicago and taught at the Moseley school where she had also attended high school.
Sabine's body was identified by her older brother, Emil Eger.
Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998
Name Sabine Eger
Sex Female
Age 27
Birth Year (Estimated) 1876
Birthplace Hungary
Address 3760 Indiana Ave
Race White
Informant's Name J E Traeger
Event Type Death
Event Date 30 Dec 1903
Event Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Event Place (Original) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Cemetery Waldheim
Entry Number 29238
Everett, M. (1904). The Great Chicago Theater Disaster. Chicago: Publishers Union of America, p 357
McCurdy, D. B. (1904). Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror. Chicago: Memorial Publishing Company, accessed https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39280/39280-h/39280-h.htm, p 136
Find-A-Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116891540/sabine-eger
