The Iroquois Theatre Fire

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

On December 30, 1903, the Iroquois Theatre, in Chicago, caught on fire, during a standing room only performance. It would become the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history. A total of 602 people died as a result of this tragedy.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome once again to History Dwebs. I am Tim and welcome to our podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.
0:14.1	And today we have another story in our creepy Christmas stories since it is the month of December and we're going to talk about the
0:23.5	Iroquois theater fire this is a fire that took place at the Iroquois theater
0:27.4	on December 30th 1903 in Chicago Illinois a lot of people were attending the theater as
0:33.8	it was over Christmas break and it resulted in the death of 600 and two people.
0:40.4	So it was a pretty big fire.
0:42.2	We're going to talk about that before we do.
0:44.8	Please allow me to introduce our panel.
0:47.0	We have with me the very lovely and talented, the Queen of Mean, the Mistress of the Macab,
0:51.4	the Impress of Evil, Satan's dirty little secret,
0:56.2	pill-popping, penis-loving, Brandy.
0:59.2	Hey, Brandy, how are you today?
1:00.6	I'm good, Timmy. How are you?
1:02.6	I am well. Are you excited about this topic?
1:05.7	I couldn't be more thrilled.
1:07.7	We're talking about a fire where people burn up at least 600 over 600 people
1:12.6	burn up and die right doesn't that get you in the holiday spirit you know nothing better yeah
1:20.2	okay and of course we're joined by as always by uh two brandy's's left or right or something.
1:28.3	It's my left.
1:29.4	Okay.
1:29.8	Good.
1:31.3	Your other right.
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