Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-07-14
Remains of Twelve Persons
Taken From the Ruins of
Chicago's Fire.
A Number of Other Bodies Be
lieved to Be Still Buried
in the Debris.
Subscriptions to Relief Fund
for Victims Families Rap
idly Coming In.

WORLD AIN 0NOCNUS. OuIy L.
Twenty-eight hours after the occur
renee of the calamity which shrouded
the handsome White City in gloom, the
most conservative estimates of the
number of killed shrinks slightly. The
dead are now known to number IL,
while two sufferers are lying in the
emergency hospital gasping away the
few hours of life that are yet allotted to
them. The mum bered dead include
those who died in the hospital from
theirinjuries and the unfortnnates whose
Charred and Blackened
trunks were taken from the mass Of
debris now adjoining the space near the
Sixty-fourth street entrance. The un-
known dead will probably be
known, but efforts will be made by the
aid of powerful machinery to lift the
network of freezing pipes, allowing the
fremen to delve still deeper for human
ity, which it is conceded by all is GER
tainly wedgea below. At daylight
Marshal King and 20 laborers were at
work on the ruins. They used their
implements we'll and by Z o'clock three
bodies were recovered from the ruins,
but they were so charred and disfgured
As to Be Unrecognizable.
One thing was quite evident, however,
and that is that the bodies recovered
were not the remains of fremen. The
position whore they were found seems
to preclude this possibility. All the
fremen that were killed are huddled at
the north corner of the shaft. The
bodies recovered were evidently not the
bodies of any who jumped o. fell from
the tower, for they were found some
distance from the tower under a mass
OF steam pipes and machinery that
must have fallen from above. On one
of the bodies was found q leather belt
to which was attached a pair of steel
pinchers, thus practically proving the
remains to be those of a lineman. That
gives color to
The Fearful Apprehension
that the firemen were by no means the
only ones who fell victims to the flames,
and the public is disposed to doubt the
declaration that employees and visitors
were out of the building before the con-
Migration had reached a dangerous
stage. The search work went on with
out n short intermission until 10 min
utes past 4 when one more body was
brought to the surface. Like the 9TH
ers it was charred beyond recognition,
the only remnant of clothing left being
apatch of linen the size of a book
which chung to the small of the back OF
the victim. The body was taken to
Rolston's morgue where it added n to
the death column.
Twelve Bodies Recovered.
At 5 o'clock the picks of the work.
men let light on another body. It was
found just under the edge of the net.
work of pipes and was extricated with
difficulty. The body was broiled all tc
pieces and Identification was out Of
thought. This makes the total bodies
recovered ~. Lewis Geddes, the painter
OF the cold storage building, is missing,
ooA "AGu OOIIu Sdu4pOCAI UuU uAnAAy
VINO were thought to have been lost
nav turned up and it is presumed that
These men have escaped.
The Relief Fund.
Subscriptions and offers of substan.
nal help came in all day to Presiden,
t1lg'nbotham, who sat at his desk in hi
sh,rt sleeves, saying little about thu
calamity but working hard. He acted
as trustee of the relief fund. The total
amount of the subscription fund al
ready amounts to &4,3lO. but it will
not stop there by any means. Thu
sPirit OF aid for the suffering families il
aoroad and everybody is anxious to con
tribute his or her money. All kinds o.
scnenes are being devised, and a mum
per of entertainments have alread,
oeen arranged. Charles T. Yerkes, tn,
street railway prince. has written
.e'.er to President Higinbotham sug
costing that the directors designate
uay at which oil Tho ro,o;o%, NJ 81.