Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-07-15
IIANYARE MISSING
Suspicion That Several Beside worlds
Tai: Fircman Lost Life ut
the Fire.
Three Co!'necs Found in Ei..." rent
Part Of the Building -One
Liii.H,an.
CEc Hundred Persons at tie Cold
Storage lu:!,iing Looking For
Missing Friends.

WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, July 10
The most interec ting exhibit at tint
worlds far ground is one not sched
| uled in the official guide book. 1t il
| the ruins of the cold storage structure
destroyed by fire. and 10000 people
crowded around the debris eagerly
watching the search for dead bodies.
Early in the morning three more dead
bodies We're recovered from the ruins,
but they We're SO much charrel and d S.
figured as to make recognition ahso.
lutrly impossible One thing seems
quite evident. however. and t.lati, that
tie bodies recovered are
Net Those cf Circlnan.
Tie locality in which they were found
ss'ems to preclude this possibility. All
the frr!nen who lost their l;yrs were
Iuddied IN one p'ace-in the dreadful
f,et1'ap at t top Of the .haft ana as
they fell victims. ona by one. TO the
flames. their bodie7 ma rral}y fell some
Y hare witl,i,l the s,uall circle surround
ing tie emok~s1ack. The Ialics i!st
recovered Were evidently not tEe re-
mains Of any who jumped or ell from
the shaft. because they We're found at a
somewhat relno'e distance from this
% mt and rn;ler a mass Of steam ripe
and maciin 'rv that ,nu t hive fallen
from above. Of one Of the DO j IS was
fcu d leather he.t, to which was
attached & pair Of ste j l,inchers, thus
practica ly rro-inr the ie.lla.t-s 10 be
those o. :; iincr;a9.
Co'nr TO :::o apprehension.
The disc0v"rv gave fresh color, to the
fearful apprehension that the firemon
We're BY no means the c:!ly onas who
fell victims to tie flan"s, and lie public
at once became disposed to donlt the
declarations made by Tie s,l1 eryisin5
firemen that all employees a:ia visitors
We're out Of The luiidilg b''ora !ha con
faeration Eal r,ac:ied a dangerous
stage The total Of dead bodies reco7-
ere a this inn rpa he, Is though the
search in the ruins was thus far very
slight owing TO il heat and con usion.
There sc 'nIel no doubt g death list
was still decidedly incomplete.
The Co!I1nb:an guard. Who worn on
duty a the scene of the tii aster have
constantly r!aint;.inel that several
worries fair visitors and elect -ici Y men
s'!d other workinei> Were caught in tile
fi::,;es. and t e '1n"Xf2ectad ii; -cove-v Of
the bodies under E,e ,uins. and the fact
that one is nndonlt" ly that o linz
nan gives crednllce TO thei. de.lira-
tons. Cert il it i; there were numer-
CT visitors and work,ne:l in lie b.1iIl-
ing at tie time the fire broke
ont, and the statnn Ants OF the
Culun lian guards that many Of them
W re caught in he flames WAS received
so seriously thai il WA, drcil, Il that
"x lninat On foo; b. foot Of the
I::raln:l o: ruins and debris would I've
rlle before the dav is out. The E.es-
tric Light company hal a ru;ler OF
mon III tie lower part of the building
: ringing wr.'s at the tiMla the fire
b oke out and several Of these are nj IS
Jig
F"u1 Columbian quarts were unac-
,orn ed fer and tier coml,an n,,S are
naturally very sol-ti Gus as to their