THE people

Burdette Spindler

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Status:
Victim
DATE OF BIRTH:
April 30, 1894
City of Birth:
, , , 
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
City of Death:
, , , 
GENDER:
M
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
H. Burdette Spindler, Bert Spindler
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
 Lowell, 
 IN, 

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
9
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Lowell Memorial Cemetery, Lowell, IN
MORGUE:
Carroll
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

"Mrs. Spindler was found at Jordan's morgue at 10 a.m. Thursday; Burdette at Carrol's morgue about 1 p.m. same day. "

"...born April 30, 1894. He was a perfect boy, a real boy in every fibre of his being. He enjoyed all sports that are natural to boys and lived a healthy joyous boyhood. To know him was to be interested in him and to love him. His class at school, his Sunday school class, his playmates, the Junior League, his teachers, and every other man on the street will miss him. Even the dumb animals, whom he petted, will know that the world is not the same since he is gone." Lowell (IN) Public Library, History Pages

"Edgar C. Frady, president of the Strohber Piano company, is prostrated over the loss of his wife and his only son, Leon Edgar Frady.  When Mrs. Frady gave a theater party she was accompanied by her son [Leon], her mother Mrs. J. G. Johnson, two sisters Mrs. Jennie E Rife 645 45ht street, Mrs. J. H. Spindler of Lowell IN and Mrs. Spindler's son Burdette.  Of the party only Mrs. Johnson escaped death and she is in critical condition at St. Luke's Hospital." (Chicago Tribune)

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 2 Jan 1904, Sat · Page 5
Chesterton Tribune (Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana) 8 Jan 1904 [Volume 20, Number 40, Page 1, Column 6]
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45396129/h-burdette-spindler
Lowell (IN) Public Library, History Pages https://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/lowell-history-pages/iroquois-theatre-fire-1903/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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