The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-11-15
DEATHS CARNIVAL.

Il Knsns -rh.rt. -rhr.. isoiscs Recovered.
" hen Regard for the safety Of IT."
| sesrehsr. demanded y Cesaii"n OF OPP
~rsttoa- While Dangerous Walls We're
>h.r-d Up
nErEoIr. Mich. Nov. Sup TO
o'clock this afternoon evey body taken
from the ruins had been identified by
friends aud relatives But one body
lacked MITIGATION for long. This
was that ~ Kate Hitler. the twentieth
recovered. whose brother was pro-
prietur of the book bindery in which
the great force Of women worked.
About o'clock this afternoon "A small
boy edged his way into the morsue
past the guards. and when his eyes
fell on the charrcd remains Of the un-
known he declared 1t To lac his sister.
! HIS father was sent for and made the
Identification authentic.
one body recovered from the ruins
to-day was that ~ young woman,
sitting bolt upright in a chair as she
had been when the explosion took
place. She had been suifocated.
About 1 o'clock the body % George
Hitler. who operated the book bindcry.
Was taken out. lie had taken his
third degree in Masonry Monday
night. and his lodge had relays of
members on constant watch with MEM
oranda of identifying marks. IL WI,
identified immediately. his bply being
IN good state ~ preservation. death
having come from the crushing OF his
skull.
Al this point the work of recovery
had To be stopped 70 permit of the
snoring ~ walls that threatened the
safety of the workers. Thirty-threc
Of thirty-nine missing had been re COW
cred
Nelson I.acroix. Journal pressman.
counted among the missing. turned
/ out 10 have been home sick in bed at
the time Of The disaster. and Lizzie
Taylor was con.ounded With Lizzie
Wiedbusch.
The cause OF the fatality was de-
veloped to-day when piece of one OF
the boilers was uncovered by the
wrecSers. The boiler had been torn
in two in the middle. tubes. rivets AMI
plates parting a. clearly as il they
were cut by cold chi>el. A piece OF
this boiler had evidently been driven
in each direction by the force OF the
explosion.
The portion found disclosed to the
expert eny incers who examined il at
once that the cause Of the explosion
was low water. The iron showed that
il had been superhea.ci and the alb
>ence Of scale confirmed the opinion.
( The city boiler inspector coincidei
with this view aiter his examina
ton. This throws the responsibility
upon the engineer and the owners
of the building. the former OF
4 whom had been repeatedly warned
that lie was too careless by neighbor-
ing engineers. while the owners of
the property had been given at least
one formal notice that he was negli-
( gent. The owners of the property are
the heirs az the late Congressman
Newberry. who was in his lifetime the
business partner of Senator Mcmillan.
The engineer. Thomas VI. Thomp-
son. to-day made his first statement of
his view OF the disaster. He was the
inventor of the burner for fuel OIL to
furnaces and these burners were used
on the boilers Thompson has chad
charge Of the boilers since $50. and
supervised their removal from another
building four years ago. lie was
away from the engine room at the
time. but only few minutes before
he had looked at his guages and found
them satisfactory. lie was letting
steam out Of one boiler with sixty five
pounds pressure into another in which
fifteen pounds of steam was on and
everything seemed to be working
smoothly.
One theory is that the water from
one boiler siphoned into the other
through the feed-pipe because 81 un-
equal prcSsurcs.
After tho coroner's inquest the mat
ter 81 the responsibility will prooably
bc taken up by the grand jury now in
session.
A. all the families OF the victims are
in humble circumstances. Cen. II. A..
/, Alger has headed a movement to raise
n fund for their relief, some of the vic-
Tins being the sole support of aged
, parents. The fund promises to be a
large one
The portion Of the Journal building
which survived the explosion was to-
day condemned by the building in
spectors- There is not close joint in
the whole hvc-story structure. The
whole building was moved on its
foundations. apparently. and the wall,
are ''buclsled" half foot. while all
are rent