St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-14
CLAIMED THE CORPSE.
THREE DIFFERENT FAMILIES AFTER
THE SAME BODY.
AT WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS.
knights and Ladies' Of the Round
Table Have a Picuic-CoI.s Nc.
Calls Banquet-Proceed
of the Library Congresses
Life-Saving Plans.


of the Library Congresses
Life-Saving Plans.
CHICAGO, July 13.-Coroner McHaIe
and his jury met at Rolston's morgue
at 10 o'clock this morning to begin their
investigation into the loss of life by tile
destruction OF the worlds fair cold stor-
age warehouse, but owing to to the alb
sence of the witnesses in attendance at
the funerals of the dead iremen, the
the first inquest was adjourned until to-
morrow.
The place was crowded with the
friends and relatives of the victims of
the fire, but little could he done toward
identifying the remains of the eight
charred and mangIed bodies lying in the
dead room. In one instance a corpse
was claimed by three families, and the
coroner found it necessary to call
in his jury, who listened to
the descriptions of the missing men
given by their families. The jury then
examined the corpse, and decided that
it tailed with the description given of
John o. Smith. The remains were Or
The work in the ruins was stopped for
the night at o'clock. No more bodies
were discovered. The search, it is said,
has been abandoned, although the men
will work in the debris right along until
1t is all thoroughly sifted and carted
away.
A sad and startling reminder of Mon
days tragic fire came this afternoon
when the fire engines, hose carts, hook
and ladder trucks. chemical engines,
guards. ambulance and Red Cross corps
were called out to suppress a smoking
fire in the burned stables of the exposi-
ton, which had been smOldering since
the cold storage building catastrophe.
Visitors became alarmed lest there
should be repetition of Mondays hOr-
rible spectacle. Col. Brice and the
assistant director of works came
up in buggy at a gallop,
aud more guards tnrned out than
at any previous fire alarm except that
of Monday. The most impressiyely. sad
sight in connection with the turnout
was when the fire department apparatus
was seen by the crowd covered with the
black and white cOlOrs of death. Even
the whips of the drivers were wrapped
in the emblems of mourning. The fire
if it could be called Such-WaS eX-
tingulshed by chemicals, and after the
hose had been turned OH bales of hay
and straw they were thrown out by
pitchforks from the loft of the stables.
Preparations for the funeral Of the
unidentified dead of Mondays fire have
been completed. The funeral procession
will leave the fire engine house at the
corner of Cottage Grove avenue and
FOrty-siXth street at 1 80 O'Clock sharp
Friday, July IA. There will be eight
caSketS placed on calihQue drawn by
eight black horses. A detail from the
fire department will be present and a
company of Columbian guards under
Col. Rice, who will be marshal of the
procession. Fine music will be fur
niShed by the exposition. Besides cti-
zens. there will be such civic societies
in which the dead had membership.
Ceremonies of the Catholic church will
be held at the Church of Father Hischen,
from thence to Oakwood cemetery,
where the Protestants' services will be
held. The bodies will be buried in
lot donated by Marcus II. Farwell, pres
ident of the Oakwood Cemetery asso-
citation.
The director general has issued the
following order in relation to the COL
lection of subscriptions for the fire re-
lief fund:
Information has been received that
unauthorized persons are soliciting sub
scriptions for the benefit of the sufferers
Of the recent fire. desire to state that
the chiefs of the several exhibit depart
ments have been authorized to solicit
subscriptions and receive amounts for
this fund. They will report all con-
tributions to this Office, and the same
will be duly accounted for to the coun-
ell of administration having this matter
N charge. Exhibitors and others
within the several exhibit departments
are therefore requested to make their
subscriptions and remittances to their
respective chiefs.