The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-24

ST. LOUIS, Jan, 2s.-fhree more
deaths this morning at St. Joseph's
Hospital, Alton, Ill, increased the
death roll Of Saturdays horror 70
twenty, Tho additional dead are;
James N, Murray, Upper Alton, H.,
county ASSESSOR aged forty. He leaves
family. a
Charles Haller, farmer, aged twenty
one.
Joseph Hermann, the little boy whose
suaerings have heretofore been de-
tailed,
Every physician within reach is en-
gagged in the work OF alleyiatins the sui-
ierings Of the burned and blackened
victims, and all find their efforts all but
unavailiug, The wounds of many are
too deep for anything but death tore
lieve.
Relatives OF the victims from other
points are arriving at Alton to see their
injured and identify their dead.
The brother OF Edward Maupin, from
st. Charles, was this morning shown
the blaCkened mass Of his brether's
body, but stricken with grief, confessed
his inability to say that he was his
brother. Identification was entirely by
metallic evidence.
Mrs. j. W. Montgomery, of Atlanta,
Ills, reached the hospital only TO find
that her son, n student Of shurtleff coll
lege, would in few hours be borne
homo corpse.
Coroner Kinder's day has been
gruesome one. He has concentrated
his efforts upon the inqueats made nee.
essary by the terrible disaster, and has
not yet completed his work. The mat
Ter OF responsibility has not yet been
decided, but switohman Grattan is still
missing, and Is likely to continue so.
1t would hardly be safe for him 10 re-
turn in the present condition OF mind
OF the victims OF what is believed to be
his carelessness.
Funerals OF tho victims were held in
number OF instances to-day, among
them these:
Henry Ponning, from the. hospital;
John Lock, from St Patrick's church;
Ed Miller, from tho morgue; William
Miller, from his homo ut Wann; John
Wilkinson, fromthe Cathedral at Alton,
Charles UT, from his residence at
Alton; Willie McCarty, from ST. Pat
rick's church.
Matthias Mauzo will be buried to.mor-
row.. The body of II. Cornelius, a stu
dent at Shurtlef college, was this morn
ing shipped to his home in Iowa.
At the hospital OF ST. Joseph scenes
continue OF the most pitiful character.
Tho wards are full Of cots, on each .
sufferer at the point of death, bandaged
and swathe1 beyond recognition, at
tended by relatives watching the uncer-
tain breathing, and now and then in
quirins Of the doctor in grieved tones
what the chances are.
Under tho influence OF morphine are
most OF the victims, who can hope for
nothing but surrender sooner or later
10 the call OF death. w. I. Richardson,
John Burke and Frank schulling have
surprised tho doctors by the vital tenac.
ity, but death is for them but little
way off DR.. Gregobaum, in charge,
says all tho wreck patients in the hos
pital were about equally injured, and
tho coming OF death will vary in time
only from the physical power OF tho
victims, but will surely come. The hos
pital is like dead house. The odor Of
burned flesh 10 present everywhere, and
to the entering visitors strikes like q
deathly chill upon the nerves with ita
horrible intensity.
Ono incident Of the disaster 10 the
fact that so far as now known not q
single woman or girl was burned!
1t ia now determined that no more
bodies will be found at or near the
sceno Of the explosion, thorough
search having demonstrated this. The
people OF Wanu have cleaned all the
particulars Of the disaster and are satis-
fed there is nothing further 10 be
learned. Many OF the less seriously In
jured are bolng nursed at their homes,
and this makes II sure that the exact
number Of injured will never be known,
though walk through the streets
shows at nearly every window passed
bandaged head or hand Of the lesser
burned.
Two moro victims will probably be
dead before this dispatch is printed
Herman Valentine and Otto Hagerman,
who were announced this afternoon az
In dying condition.
A report that has been published
that q student Of Wyman Institute was
burned 10 death and that Others are
missing Is unfounded. All the boys
are at the academy. None Of thom are
injured, and mono Of them was within
three miles Of Wann at the time Of tho
accident