Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-19

question which no one can answer with any degree of certainty.
 Mir. J. M Allen, president of the Steam Boiler Insurance company, and an expert on boiler explosions, will not accept the explosion theory until there is more definite evidence, which cannot be obtained until the boiler is reached. If, as is generally believed, the dis aster was caused by the boiler, it was prob ably caused by the night engineer going away about midnight and leaving a heavy draught on the furnace and little water in the boiler. When the day engineer came he probably turned on the water and caused the explosion.
 But he is dead and can give no evidence. It is said that Amos E. Risley, the night en. gineer, was of irregular habits. He said to a reporter about an hour after the explosion:
 II left the boiler all right at l2 o'clock last night. We never run it all night either on Saturday or Sunday nights Last night banked the fire with sixty pounds of steam on and shut the dampers In half an hour the steam ought to have been down to twenty pounds Then went to bed in the annex on the second floor. When the explosion came got out all right, but how the thing exploded 1 can't imagine"
 Risley was arrested.
 The police did good work in keeping orde, until the militia were called out to relieve them. The lower floor of Judd & Roots woo warehouse was converted into temporary morgue, where the coroner, medical examiner and assistant physicians cared for the victims until the dead could be identified and the in jured removed to hospitals. The city pro vided caskets for the unclaimed bodies.
 Most of the bodies bear comparatively few marks of burns Death seems in most case to have been due to suffocation or contusions
 Great sorrow is expressed at the death O Dr. Perrin. The Rev. Lavellette Perrin, D D., was born at Vernon, Conn, May Is, lSl6 graduated at Yale in lS40, and from Yal seminary in 1S43, ordained Dec. Is, lS4S, a Goschen, Conn, where he remained fourteel years, when impaired health led to his resig nation. After two years rest he acceptes the pastorate of the First Congregations | church at New Britain, which renewed il health compeilei him to resign. His heaitl having been restored by long European tour, he served as a pastor ill .Wolcottville near Farnliugtou, Conn.,, from 1872 until 1881 1 since when he had been pastor emeritus there For years he was one of the editors of Tn 1 Religious Herald at Hartford.
 The register of the hotel has not bee | found, and Night Clerk Perry is buried i the ruins, but estimates agree pretty closet l that that about sixty persons were in tn | hotel
 The authorities are overwhelmed with tele grams of inquiry from people in all parts c the country, who fear that friends or relative may have been in the hotel
 The street cleaning department soon ha | all their laborers on the spot helping clea | away the ruins and the work of rescue wel on steadily ali day and evening.
 The following articles were taken from th ruins or were found on the bodies of thos taken out: Book, name on fly leaf, Jane I Spencer, Norwich, Conn.,; sack coat, wit two books, name in books, A. F. Whitin tho address,; bundle of underclotLing an trunk, name on trunk, c. Jaros; also an el velope with the name Mrs. H. Jaros on i overcoat with blue muff1er and gloves, M chael Corrigan; vest with gold watch an card with the name of 4. 4. Stocker, No. Orchard place; trunk of woman's clothin with instials ''L H. B." marked on the linel There was also a large collection of articl of clothing with no name, which will be ke] for identification.
 Among the fragments blown into the vii dows of the Earl house, on the opposite side Allyn street, was piece of paper upon whie was written: ''George E. Harrington, No.
 Grand street, Waterbury,"
 A card with rubber stamp, IA s. Ferri Mo- 3O4 Washington street, South Norwalk was also found ill the room. A paper in
 wrapper addressed to Miss Bella Jaros, b< SIS, Hartford, was picked up on the street