Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-04
The ST. Louis Tragedy.

thus alludes to it
Scarcely are the ruins of the Pacific
Hotel cold, and the charred bones ofthe
victims sepultured, when out of the
ashes suspicion evokes a black speeter,
which men, whispering with white lips,
call murder.
The mere possibility that the recent
catastrophe was wrought by the hand of
crime was a sufficient warrant for the
most cautious, assoidous and t~ireless
inve stigation. Such an investigation
has been laboriously prosecuted by
Captain J. E. D. Cozzens, the Fire In
spector, since the morning of the calam-
ity. =
There were circumstances calculated
to excite inquiry. Five bodies were
found In one room, regularly arranged,
burnt with their clothes on. OF one of
them, only the head was burnt, and that
was nearly severed from the body, and
the clothes were much marked wi tn
blood. This body was identified as that
of Ephraim Doane, who came to the no.
tel on the previous night, having, it was
said, $4,000 in a belt on his person.
There was now no belt or money on his
person. He had retired to rest alone
in another room. OF other bodies, GER
tain were identified and known to have
occupied other rooms. Doane had ar
rived in the city on Friday evening,
and taken a roc at the City Hotel
From thence Sanders Taylor, or Sanders
alias Taylor, had brought him, paying
carriage hire and treating freely, to the
Pacific House. Taylor's room was num-
Der fifteen; Doane's was number four
teen, on the second floor of the building.
Every person on the second floor es-
capped buttwo, Lord and DoaDe, Doane's
room was bounded by two halls, the
dlning-room and Taylor's room. It was
near two entrances from Seventh-street
Why did not Doane go out, when 9th
ers, much more remote from the doors
and halls, passed his door and left safe
ly? At half-past one o'clock A. NJ.
streets. AT two o'clock A. NJ. be APP
peared to have been at Ganter's. At
about the time of the alarm of the fire
he came to Townships house without
boots on. In the morning blood was
found on the sheet, which he had ap-
parently turned down with his hand.
The Leader of the same date saws of
the victims:
OF the eleven burnt on Wednesday,
i've were unknown, and presented no
possible marks for recognition, and one
unknow upon whose body Was found
an old-fashioned English double-cased
lever watch. OF the remainder,
.wo were supposed to be the remains of
Charles Davis and Paul Schumacher, and
he other three were Miss Hunter, Dir.
and Mr.. S. Wagner, who were
Identified.
The remains of Mr.. E. J. Watkins
we're placed, yesterday morning, on the
of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
-oad, to be transported to Columbus,
Ohio. 1t was followed to the ferry
boat by a large body of the Indepen-
lent Order of Odd Fellows, Of which
The deceased was a member.
The corpse of Mr.. Ammi Lord is now
wing at the establishment of Messrs.
Smithers and Records, in a handsome
coffin, and will this morning be
accompanied by the son of the deceased
10 Cincinnati. Young Mr.. Lord ar
here on the night before the pub
ic funeral ceremonies were performed,
LhN SCSNCU III AHuiiS. du1OuS tue
'uins of the hotel, several valuable pa
'ers, which he recognized as having be-
onged to his father.
CoRREcTIoN.-In the Ereaiug Nelcs
f yesterday it is stated that DIR. Strader
id not own one dollars worth of prop
rty in the Pacific Hotel before the oc-
urrence Of the FIRE. We are requested
y his sister, who called on us last even
Is, to say that such statement is wholly