Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-07-12
TAKING OUT THE BODIES.
a Tangled Network That nIay Hold Some
More.

n Some
More.
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, CHICAGO, July
12.-At this period after the occurrence of
the calamity which shroudcd the hand
some White City in gloom the most con-
servative estimates of the number of the
killed have fallen of to twelve while two
sufferers are lying in the Emergency hos
pital gasping away the few hours of life
which arc Yet allotted them. The mum
bercd dead include those who died in the
hospital from their injuries and the un-
fortUnates whose charred and blackened
trunks were taken from the mass of debris
once the storage warehouse. There is a
strong belief il some quarters that several
lives We're lost of whom no account will
ever he heard, but this is speculation.
List Of The Dead Revised.
The actual known dead are as fol-
lows: James Fitzpatrick, captain en-.
gine company No. ?; John H. Freeman,
lieutenant company No. 1; William Den
ming, truck company No s; n. Hartman,
a lineman; Phillip p. Breen, truck com.
pauy No. S; Captain James a. Garvey, en-
gine company No. /; John Mcbride, pipe
man, engine company No s; John Cahill,
truck company No. S; Paul Schroeder,
truck company y. s; Burton E. Page,
| captain truck company No. s; Charles
Purvis, lieutenant engine company No I:
John A. Smith, driver, engine compa1l;
| No T.
Fatally injured-L. J. Frank, eng ne
| company No. l; Sigmund Nordrum, engine
company No. ..
The four Columbian guards who were
| reported in the list of missing have Iip. 1
| heard from, and are not hurt having be 1
on duty elsewhere.
| Condition of the Bodies Recovered.
A hard days work was put m on the p. e
! of ruins and all examined except such as
was inaccessible owing to the network of
| freezing-pipes used to make ice in the
| building. This network covers q large
| area and upon what they fear is under
meath it those who look for a larger death
list base their apprehensions Today the
men are lifting this away with machinery.
| Every body recovered waf burned 10 Gin
! der or otherwise mutilated, so as to be
| unrecoguiZable, except il a few instances.
In one case pair OF steel wire-cutters was
! found with the body, showing that it was
! that of a lineman. This also shows that
| others besides those reported as missing
! were caught by the crash
Marshal OIurrhy's Opinion.
| Marshal Murphy IS convinced that there
are more bodies under the mass of stuff.
| eve have accounted for the firemen and
| a lineman. But what of those carpenters
and painters? The joint was full of men
| when / went up there, and / noticed par
| ticularly two men carrying little blast
! stoves used in soldering. They, as was
the case with the carpenters, did not real
| iZe the extent of the danger and were
/ standing around He also believes that
the cause of the flames breaking out be
| low was an explosion of ammonia while
the operators of the ice making plant de-
| clare that such a thing was impossible
| He says there were four previous fires in
| the building and that he called the atten-
| ton of Director of Works Burnham to
each of them in wriNng.
Council of Administration.
The first act of the council administra.
tion at its meeting was to pass series OF
resolutions extending its sympathy and
| coincidence to the bereaved, attesting its
high appreciation of the heroism of the
dead and surviving, and commencing tc
| the executive committee of the exposition
the propriety of making such appropria
tion to the fund for the sufferers as il
should deem adequate; also authoriZins
President Higinbotham to present media
to each of the survivors whose conduct wa.
marked by personal bravery.