The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-12
Charred Remains of Victims
Recovered from the Ruins.
THIRTEEN BODIES FOUND.
The Number of Lives Lost May Never
Be known.
Full Extent of the Disaster Cannot BE
Ascertained Until the Mountain of
Rubbish is sifted and Carried Away
Thousands OF Sight seers.

of yesterdays disaster cannot be ascer-
tanned until the mountain OF rubbish is
sifted and carted away. In all, thirteen
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins; besides these, thr se firemen died
in hospitals. It Is now definitely known
that number of workmen employed in
the building assembled the fatal tower
with the iremen, and how many of them
were lost no one knows. The last seen of
Z. A. Drummond, who with three or
four other workmen going up ladder into
the tower with fire extinguishers. Before
they could have reached the top the whole
mass toppled over.
The center of attraction at the Worlds
, fair is something not down in the
: guide books. It is the ruins of
the cold storage building burned
yesterday with such fearful results in
loss Of life. Ten thousand people gath
cred arLcnd the debris this morning.
watching the Jearch which still goes on
for the DO les of victims. Early this
morning the remains of three more of
the unfortunates were recovered from the
ruins, so badly charred as to make re-
ccgnihon impossible, though it is not be-
lieved they were the bodies of dremen,
owing to the locality in which they were
found being some distance from the
deadly sEokestack around which the
imperiled firemen huddled on the cupola
of the balcony, and covered with mass
OF twisted steam pipes and machinery
which had fallen from above. From the
fact that one of the bodies had on
leather belt, carrying a pair of plncers,
1t is believed the victim was an electric
lineman. This discovery opens the ques-
tion of how many persons besides the
fremen lost their lives IN the burned
building.
The total dead bodies so far recovered.
number thirteen, but search in tie ruins
thus far has been very slight owing to the
heat and confusion, and there is no doubt
that the list is still incomplete. Column
bian guards on duty at the scene during
the fire, have constantly maintained that
several Worlds fair visitors and electrical
employees ana other workers were caught
in the flames, and today's discoveries
lend color to their contention. 1t is GER
tain that number of visitors and work.
men were in the building at the time the
fire broke out, therefore it has been de-
cided to make a minute examination of
the ruins foot by foot, as rapidly as
possible.
The electric light company had num-
Der of men in the lower part of the build
ing stringing wires when the fire broke
out and several of these are missing.
Four Columbian guards are still unac-
counted for. There are at least one hum
dred people who have missing relatives
or friends around the ruins this morning,
trying to identify the bodies discovered.
In numerous instances these are World s
fair visitors. whose friends do not even
know they were in the neighborhood of
the building and it is therefore probable
most of them will turn up safe.
Many inquiries come from Springfield,
H., as to the fate of Lieutenant John ii.
Freeman of fire company No. /. There is
now no longer any doubt as to his fate.
He was one of the first to reach the top of
the burning shaft, consequently one of
the first victims of the fire. His charred
body has been recovered and in some way
identified by his comrades, though the
features and form are unrecogniZabIe
Freeman had only entered the World s
fair fire department few weeks ago. He
was many years chief fire marshal of
Springfield, but recently lost his position
through a change of administration. 1t
has been definitely ascertained that only
eleven fremen lost their lives, as follows:
CAPTAIN JAMES FITZPATRICK.
LIEUTENANT j. 81. FREEMAN.
VIM. DEFINING.
p. B. BROWN.
CAPTAIN JAMES GARYEYs
l. JOHN MCBRIDE.
JOHN CAHILL.
PAUL SCHROEDER.
CAPTAIN b. E. PAGE.
LIEUTENANT CHAs. PURvIs.
JAS. a SMITH.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
EDWARD FOWLER.
JASPER STANFORD.
L. A. DRUMMOND.
JOHN MURPHY.
CHARLES HUTTON.
There are three unidentified bodies,
known, however, not to be firemen
There are seventeen wounded in the nos
pital and elsewhere. OF these, L. j.
Frank, fireman, will probably die.
CAPTAIN THOMAS BARRY, arm broken,
will have to be amputated.
MARSHAL MURPHY. chief of the
Worlds fair fire department, slightly in
jured.
MARSHAL KENYON, chief of battalion,
bruised.
With the exception of Lewis J. Frank.
ali the injured are in fair way to re-
coVery.
Three Columbian guards who went MP
the deadly cupola 10 help the firemen
draw up the hose are missing and are
supposed to have shared the fate of the
firemea. An examination OF the remains
dslnsy character and many blame the
construction department of the World Is
fair Tor allowing it to SO up in that form.
II is said the council of administration
has been warned time and again OF the
dangerous character of the structure,
including once by Marshal Murphy, and
that the council to cut down expenses or
dered the 7 ithdrawal of the Columbian
guards on DUTY there in spite of the pro-
test from the commander.
But for the favorable direction OF the
wind yesterday, it is believed nothing
could have prevented the fire from sweep
ing right through the White city.
The council of administration has been
in secret session all morning and from
the tone OF voices heard from within 1t is
evident the session was a stormy one.
Director of Works, Burnham, was before
the council an hour. He declined to say
what was asked of him but it is not
doubted that the ire was under consid-
Grafton.
The coroners jury was impaneled
viewed the bodies and adjourned till
Thursday TO give time Tor preliminary
s5DVeStigation- The coroner says he I'M
derstands that the first plans of the
burned building called for steel lath but
that other plans subsequently adopted
allowed the use of wooden lath of winch
the building was constructed.
Great crowds surrounded the morgue
al day, many TO seek TO identity bodies,
many out OF morbid curiosity. Bodies
xecorsred from the ashes have been