The evening world., 1893-07-11
Mayor Harrison Says the City
Will Take Charge Of
Fair Buildings
FOR ITS own GOOD NAME,
AllIStructurt . to Be Inspected
and Made Safe for
Visitors.

WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS. CHI
CAQO, July 11.-At $40 this morning
the remains Of nve more Of the Victims
Of yesterdays fire at the cold storage
building were removed to the Morgue,
burned beyond recognition.
Added to the seven that lay in the
Morgue at midnight, this made twelve
dead 30 far taken out Of the ruins.
Only one body has been positively
identifed, that Of William Denning.
although seven firemen who called
thought they saw in one heap Of charred
remains q resemblance to their comrade,
NJ. McQuade, driver of Engine No. g.
Four Of the bodies bore little likeness
to dead humanity. One gunny sack,
when opened showed damp mass OF
charred matter. Close inspection re-
vealed black and ieshless bones. and
only by these were the firemen enabled
to tell that they had found what was
left Of a man.
During the evening many women
called-wives, mothers and sisters OF
fremsn. They were told that 1t was
useless to go below and gaze upon the
bodies as there was no hope Of identi-
flying the dead.
THE SEARCH FOR THE DEAD.
It was after o'clock last night before
the ruins became cool enough to con-
duct anything like q systematic search
for bodies. Before that time. however,
several charred fragments Of what had
been human forms had been pulled out
from the debris. each fresh ''hnd" being
accompanied by some gruesome circum-
stance.
The sounding of ambulance gongs and
the rush of the hospital stan with
stretchers, excited the crowd. which
made efforts from time to time to
break the Gordon established W. the
guards and police.
Keep back! Keep back" the officers
would cry. and then suddenly. realiz-
ing that perhaps their curiosity was
out Of place at such q time the people
returned to their places.
One Of the bodies first taken out was
fearfuily burned. Arms and legs were
missing. and the flesh OF the face had
been burned away. Somebody said the
victim was guard and that q remnant
of his coat with brass button clinging
to 1t had dropped from the shrivelled
trunk as 1t was removed from the wreck.
Fen minutes later a company Of fire.
men at work near the big smoke-sta ok
stumbled over something In the ruins.
One big pipeman took hold Of the OBJ
struction and drew from 1t a thigh bone.
This body. like the one taken from the
north front, was burned beyond recog-
milton. 1t was that Of man whose
arms had been burned Off at the elbows
The head was gone and the legs were
mere stumps.
FOOTBALL PLAYER AT WORK
Here's another body, boys" criet
big Ben Donnelly. the famous football
player, who was assisting the firemer
and guards, and who stood coatless ant
hatless In the wreckage. A half-dozei
guards sprang into the tangled mass o
IRON and tugged away at a body whicl
'ay beneath beam. When the bur
ueh under which 1t rested had beei
removed the headless, armless and leg
iess trunk was rolled up In piece o
canvas and taken away.
me morbid curiosity of the crow,
.heh began to take demonstrativ
urn Men and women tried to breal
through the lines and follow the ambu
anee corps and its ghastly burdens, bu
ne guards held them back, and sternl
.p,"handed them for their eagernes
inspect the dead. este rr
shief sweenie stood At the east from,
.he Columbus statue. His fac
s,as Z black. and the hot water rushin
'he street was up to his ankles.