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Helen Long

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

August 28, 1889

PLACE OF BIRTH:

City of Birth:

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DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

PLACE OF DEATH:

City of Death:

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GENDER:

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OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

MAIDEN NAME:

Long

ETHNICITY:

RACE:

NATIONALITY:

RELATED TO:

James & Helen (Welch) Long, parents
Marian Patra Long and Kathryn Long, sisters

DATE OF MARRIAGE:

PLACE OF MARRIAGE:

DATE OF ADDRESS:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

403 S. Fourth St.

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Geneva

Illinois

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ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

School Girl

AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:

Audience Member

STATUS:

Victim

AGE:

14

MARITAL STATUS:

Single

other information

MORGUE:

Rolston

IDENTIFIED BY:

Edward P Luthardt, relative of Helen Welch Long

FUNERAL HOME:

CEMETERY:

Oak Hill Cemetery, Geneva IL

OTHER NOTES:

Mrs. Long left her children to enjoy the rest of the show while she went to a store to get some packages. When she learned the theater was on fire she rushed back to find the flames sweeping everything and a mad panic ensuing while she was powerless to guide her little ones to safety. Mrs. Long has been in a serious condition mentally since the awful disaster.

James Long spent all night looking for the bodies of his daughters. Kathryn was found at Horan's funeral home and identified by Dr. Alfred Wheelock Young.† Helen was found at Rolston's and Marian's at Horan's funeral homes, both identified by Edward P. Luthardt, husband of Helen's cousin Mary.

Frank H. Blackman organized the search parties. He was the Long family physician from Geneva, Illinois.

The girls' bodies were cremated and a funeral was held mid afternoon at Graceland cemetery chapel on Tuesday, January 5, 1904. Burial was in the family plot at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Geneva, IL

CITATION:

McCurdy, p 341
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59776307/helen-long
St Charles Chronicle (St Charles, Illinois) 08 Jan 1904, Fri
https://www.iroquoistheater.com/geneva-couple-lost-all-3-of-their-children-at-the-iroquois-fire.php

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

Karl Sup, Judy Cooke, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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