The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-28
THE REM AIVS RECOVERED
KELLER'sc4Aaaso soNEs FOUND
The Separate Identity of the Black and
White Victims of the Elevator Fire
Positively Established - In
quest aad other Notes.

Search for the missing body in the
gums of the Central elevator was re-
stunned early yesterday morning. The
temains recovered the day previous and
taken in charge by Undertaken Smith,
and which the jury of inquest supposed
were those of " lillian Keller, were not
inferred by the Dallas r fles, of which
he was member, as there was a grave
doubt as to their being his. In the
meantime the search was vigorously
prosecuted. A large crowd gathered
about the place, and crowded the work
ers so that two policemen had TO stand
guard to keep the curious back.
In the course of tho hunt q part OF a
watch and remnants of the coat, vest
and pants worn by Joe Evans, colored.
one OF the two unfortunates were found
buried III the grain at the spot where the
hrst body was taken out, and this, with
subsequent developments, leaves little
doubt but that the first body recovered
was that of Joe Evans, the coiored man.
About noon the efforts of the
eearchers WEI @ rewarded by the finding
of the second body about twelve feet
from where the first one was and in an
opposite direction, towards the south
side of the building, near the west end
In getting out the body mil tary but
ton of the Dallas Rifles was discovered
in the grain beside it. This, with the
shape of what was left of the
remains went to show that they
We those OF young Keller.
They were taken charge of by Under
taker Llnskie and conveyed to the
morgue at the hospital They were ex-
eeedngly offensive to the smell and
presented horrible sight. The legs
and arms were gone, the top of the skull
was missing, and the body was charred
snn blackened mass Of cooking flesh.
THE INQUEST.
justice Schulz, acting coroner, en-
pahneled q jury Of inquest, aud a num-
Dor OF Witnesses were examined:
A. j. RA1NwATER.
have seen the second body taken
out; no marks on the body to tell who it
was, yet from the general makeup of
the remains l believe they are those of
heller. military button of the Dallas
Rities, OF which Keller was member.
was found near the remains taken out
this morning. He was larger than Joe,
chs color d man who persisted, An
pther reason have for believing the
Dody found to-day was that of Keller, is
tnat parts OF watch and
pieces OF clothing of Joe Evans, colored.
were subsequently found near where
the first remains were found. The bins.
2 out one,were full of grain. The BODY
FOUND this morning was under the
stairway. think he must have made
for the stairway leading to the top floor
anu was suffocated from smoke on the
way. ! am satisfied that the remains
round to-day are those of Keller. The
little son OF Mr.. Dean, tho engineer.
was not lost in the building. He came
home Friday night.
AARON CORNELIUS.
oolored, testified: was on nv way IN
Town 10 get some groceries, when saw
Whlte man come to one of the high
windows on the west side of the elevs-
cor and stick his head out OF the win
dow; his hat fell OFT; he did not throw
IL; ladder was run up about five min
utes later by the tiremen, and one ran
up and Kicked the window out, when
nre and smoke came out
g. IL PRuHN
testified: l saw white man thrust his
head through one of the lower left win
dows; his hat tell off; thought ne
yelled fire. A ladder was run up aud
the window broken in, when the ire
burst out that end. | thought he fell
back from the window. That was the
last saw of him.
J. j. DEAN.
was engineer at the elevator. Mr..
Stearns asked me il had not better
build fire in the engine. | explained
TO him that IL would not freeze, and he
said, all right, do as you think best.
There was no fire IN the engine. went
up stairs with Keller and Evans whe /
they went TO work. left them at the
scale hopper, near the center OF the
building. l do not know where the ire
originated. The only means they had
OF escaping was by getting out on the
roof.
One or two other witnesses were ex-
amined, whose testimony was not ma
terial. The jury returned verdict in
accordance with the above facts, decid-
ing that the remains were those of
Keller.
The funeral will take nlace this o N N,