The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-24
TT WAS 4 HOLOCAUST.
Three Lives We're Lost in Fri
day Nights Fire.
THE cHARRED REMAINS FOUND.


The startling DISCOVERY vns made yessef.
day afternoon that the burning Of ths stet-
son 4 Post row On Friday night was not
only . condagYation In which about City
thousand dollars worth 81 pFopsrty vas DE-
stroyed, but that it was also holocaust in
which three human beings INST terrible
death.
This discovery was made about O'Clock
yesterday evening by Chief Kellogg and
Assistant Chief Bassise. Of the IRE depart
ment, who while looking over
The ruins Of the building accident
ally came upon thTss charred skeletons
The fremen had mounted 10 the porch ex-
tending the entire length Of the building.
part OF which had burned away, taking .
general survey Of the building. Directly
In front Of them was the roof Of what bad
been an open area way extending from the
rear porch shout thirty feet in length and
about fifteen feet wide. The greater part
of this had been burned away leaving
platform resting upon few haif-burned
strineers This WAS over the restaurant
which had been occupied by 4. Tanguschi-
The discovery was made simultaneously
and both men came at once to
the conclusion that the objects in
front Of them must be human re-
mains. Carefully they made their
way TO the spot. where most horrible and
sickening sight presented itself before
them. The bodies had been literally
cooked and were unacceptable.
The three bodies lay in . row only few
feet apart, each with the head to the south.
One was evidently that Of . woman
and the other two were of
Il vx~
men were in position showing that they
had probably died cissped in each other 3
arms, only Involuntary disentangling
themselves in the throes Of death. The
other body WAS found about three feet
away.
After the discovery Of the bodies and the
circulation Of the report that the
bodies had been found, . large
crowd gathered at the ruins, and before q
O'Clock. when the bodies we're removed 20
the undertakers, fully 600 curious people
had ciambered over the blackened boards
TO get look at the charred remains. No
one knew who they were and the most
persistent inquiries for long time failed to
even give clue to their identity. The fact
that no one had been missed indicated that
the remains were probably those OF
strangers.
THE FIRST cLUE.
The finding OF transfer check under
meath one of the bodies, Was the first clue
from which the identity Of the bodies was
learned. 1t was check No. e07 and it was
learned ct the transfer company's office
that this number called for . small trunk.
The clerk remembered distinctly of two
men coming into the Office Friday morning
with four checks. They had come to
Seattle in an early boat from Tacoma and
had exchanged their baggage checks for
transfer checks previous 10 this. The
owner Of check 207 gave his name - Mr..
Jones and the other man whose name sp-
peared on the baggage way bill ~ N. G..
Mayse. had transfer checks Nos.
203. Df and EOS. He gave
orders TO send bis baggage
down 10 the dock and to have Il checked
for Snohomish, via the steamer Munroe.
which was to leave Saturday morning
The transfer man Understood that Mr..
Mayse was also going on tho boat and that
Mr.. Jones would stay In this city for
awhile. Neither OF these men
have called ut the Office since that
time. The description of these
two men. especially of the younger one, or
Mr.. Jones. Tailed exactly with the descrip-
ton given by Mrs. Geyer Of Mr.. Jones, her
new tenant. and there Was no shadow OF
doubt that the Mr.. Jones who had the
check at the transfer once was the Mr..
Jones who occupied room Is in the Stetson
& Post block the night of the fire.
THEIR IDENTITY ESTABLISHED.
The first straight evidence toward estab-
lt.txs sh~t ~ t~.x,
did not come out until late in the evening,
when Mr.. Il. NJ. Fredericks, . printer. re-
siding at the Leland house, hearing the
stories. suddenly realized the victims were
probably his friends Mr.. and Mrs. Mayse,
and Mr. Jones. Close inquiry and an
examination Of the place by Mr.. Frede-
ricks proved his suspicion to be fact. His
story is rs follows:
81 came on to this country by way of the
Short Line from Denver, Colorado, and il
was on the train that my wife and met
Mr.. and Mrs. Mayes and the young Mr.
Jones.
They were coming from some small
place in Arkansas. where they had been
farming and were going to Marysville,
Washington, TO work in q hotel there, run
by certain Mr.. Holt
The husband was going as cook, his
wife a. housekeeper, and. believe. the
young man was going to try TO get some
sort of position around the house. But
he WAS very conservative man, and had
very little to say about himself Mr.
Msyes was man of about middle age,
short. and fair complexion and brown
hair. The young man was very tall. and
had dark complies ion and dark hair.
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