The morning call., 1893-07-14
FOUND A MANS ARM.
The Fatalities of the Fire Now
Number Seventeen.
Three or Four Still Unaccounted For.
The National Commission in
Favor of Fire Escapes.
Special to The MORNING GALL

CHICAGO, July 13.-The day opened clear
and hot. but the scorching rays of the sun
did not suffice to keep the people away
from the Worlds Fair grounds.
The wOrkmen on the ruins Of the cold
storage warehouse made another CHASTITY
find this morning. 1t was that Of human
arm, and from ring on the finger was
identified as that of Ralph DrummoDd.
constructing engineer of tie Cold-stOrage
Company, part of whose remains were
taken out yesterday. The total list of
fatalities from the fire now number seven
teen, with three or four still unaccounted
for 1t is now believed the total will not
exceed twenty or twenty-0ne, though there
is considerable undertainty as to the num-
Der of strangers in the building when the
fire broke out.
The gate receipts at the fair Sunday are
to be donated to the relatives of the dead
firemen. and several city theaters will also
give benefits for them, so that handsome
sum is sure to be netted. Memorial serv-
ices are to be held al the grounds Sunday.
The National Worlds Fair Commission
to-day adopted a report recommending
that fire escapes be put on the Worlds
Fair buildings on which the public are in
the habit Of going, and that body OF men
be employed and provided with imple-
ments for scaling walls and rescuing peo-
pie in the case of fire.
The preparations for the funeral of the
completed. The procession will start from
the iEe-engine house on Cottage Grove
avenue at 80 o'clock tomorrow. There
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drawn by eight black horses. Details from
the Fire Department and company of
Columbian Guards, as we'll a civic socie-
ties, will participate. Over $4,000 has
thus far been raised for the relief of the
widows and orphans.
September 80 was decided upon to-day
as Ireland's day.
Tomorrow the Worlds Fair Directors
will again take up the Sunday question,
and before adjourning it is probable an
order will be issued closing the gates on
Sunday.
The jury of awards is rapidly being
formed, and. as usual, California Is taking
front seat. Commissioner-atlarge Mark
l.. Mcdonald has for some time been
schemng for a fair representation of Cali
fornia upon the jury. William Irelan Jr.
| of San Francisco and A. F. White of Santa
Rosa have already been appointed on the
mines and mining committee, and the az
pointment of Miss Addie Elliott on the
chrysanthemum jury will proba bly, be con-
firmed tomorrow. Rumors have lately
been current to the effect that the Golden
State will be slighted, but thanks to the
efforts of Commissioner Mcdonald CaIifor-
MIA will, without doubt. obtain a promi-
nent place upon the jury.
William 1relan Jr.. who has been con-
| slant worker in the California building, is
to resign the position as manager of the
mining exhibit and superintendent of the
building, and will attend exclusively to his
duties as member Of the jury of awards.
In about three days he will leave for Cali
fornia. travelling in special car with some
Eastern capitalists. for whom he will in
spect some mining property. he will then
return to Chicago.
Everybody is looking to Alameda County
for cherries. Although the exhibit still
looks well. it will be freshened In day or
two by the addition of 119 boxes of cher
res, which are now on the way.
The feature of the literary congress was
paper by Charles Dudley Warner on the
function of literary criticism in the United
States.