New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-20

as clerb cf the hotel.
| HrBBOLD Frederick, OF Lisbon. Iowa, guest.
MCLOsKEY, F. j.. of Longmont' Co'.' guest
| RICHARDS. william Of Denver elevator poS'
Unknown child, three years old.
Unknown woman.
The only means Of identifying the body OF the
woman Is by a gold band ring with the initials
II B." engraved thereon.
Among those who are missing and supposed 10
| be still in the ruins are the following:
| MISSING
| ADAMS. General Charles. of Denver
| BLAKE. W j.
| CORSON ~ j.
| EDWARDS f w. butcher, Of Denver
| FRENCH. F.. County Treasurer OF Gilpn County.
Col.
| GJ-MRy. Peter. owner OF the hotel and superin-
| tendent Of Construction at the CAPITOL
| NIrRpuY lanes prominent Democrat Of Omaha
| WOLFE. Mrs. g. r.
WOLFE. Grace. Ave years old, of Lincoln, Neb
| LURCH, r l., of Blaokhawk.
| Unknown woman.
| Three unknown chambermads
| INJURED.
| BURGESS Nathan.
| COLEMAN. Frederick.
| HOPKINS Bud.
| IRWIN. Alexander E.
| LETSON. NJ. +.
! MUNAL Joseph
The latest information regarding the catas-
trophe is that a sey yenteen-year-old boy, Elmer
Pierce who WAS placed temporarily in charge
Of the boiler was responsible for the explosion
| With the boiler almost at white heat ne let
cold water into the tubular machinery. causing
an immediate explosion. He escaped uninjured
and tonight was being hunted by the angry
people
The boy who was in charge OF the boiler at
| the time of the accident had attended a picnic
during the day. and was under the influence or
| liauor when he went duty as several persons
have testified How he ever managed to turn
the injector cock and escape without injury Is
mystery The boilers said to have been In
excellent condition
Late tonight many kilograms came to Police
Headausr rters from New-York. San Francisco
| Chicago and other points inqulring OF people
| registered at hotels in Denver.
Ex-Governor Routt said a United Press re-
porter to-day: 'In my opinion, the explosion
was caused by dynamite instead OF the boiler l
think 1t was done kill Mr. Gumry. You know
ne Is Superintendent OF Construction at the Capt.
| toll Building and lately discharged a number OF
men, These men have been heard to threaten
his life I do not think boiler explosion would
| have wrecked the building in the manner it did
| Few other people than fremen. the hastily
summoned rescue corps and policemen remained
near the scene to witness the recovery of the
horribly burned and distorted bodies. NJ f..
| Ietson who was the first live man taken from
| the ruins slept on the third floor and when
found was incased in a oonical mass OF mortar
and bricks that barely allowed freedom or
movement Chief Roberts. of the Fire Depart
ment first discovered him and rapidly began
| the removal of the tons OF material that seemed
| to rest directly upon his body. In heartrending
appeals he begged for something to end his life.
| The rescuers worked with will. and in two
hours had succeeded in removing enough plas-
ter and bricks from the body to allow his re-
moval His lower limbs were crushed. but he
will survive his terrible ordeal
| About 10 o'clock a womar's hand protruded
from among pile of building material. space
| was cleared around 1t. and when the form was
removed it was discovered that she was dead.
Lying beside the body was the corpse OF a child.
| The firemen kept bravely at work. superlntended
| by Mayor McMurray and Police Commissioners
Hogle. Church and Wilson. In the afternoon
women volunteers with refreshments for
the workers At 5 a. m. the body OF an unknown
| man was recovered and taken TO the Morgue. 1t
was thought to be that of F. ]. McCloskey. Half
| an hour later the body OF Conductor Burt was
discovered. Earlier in the morning were found
the bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. C.sGrener clasped
in an embrace Of death amid tons OF wreckage.
| They had undoubtedly died from suffocation
Excitement in the city tonight is at high
pitch Throngs Of people crowd Police Head
quarters and the Morgue to search for missing
| friends.
Immediately after the explosion occurred boy
| was heard wailing in the corner Of a room which
was nearly all fallen away. His parents had
| gone down with the first crash. Afterward the
| little ones cries became weaker and weaker. and
when the flames shot up into the skeleton OF the
building his voice was silenced.
It is thought tn 1t almost the entire force OF en-
| ployes I'm the building have been killed. for they
were sleeping In the portion which FELL and the re-
naming walls toppled over upon them, buryng
| them from all hope OF rescue. The force OF the
explosion and the conclusion OF the railing walls
shattered the windows on both sides OF Law
| rence-st from Seventeenth-st. 10 Eighteenth
and back OF the hotel on Larimer-st. the plate
glass windows OF all tAe business houses were
utterly wrecked. and belated pedestrians were
| badly injured by the falling Of glass and flying
debris The fronts OF many buildings In the
vicinity were very badly wrecked The hote
| structure for 100 feet along the alley and ex-
tending seventy-hve feet toward the front was a
mass OF wreckage Brick and plaster were piled
In heaps twenty feet high. and from the ruins
could be heard the means OF the injured and
dying. At 1895 o'clock Ave injured persons were
! dying.
Every engine In the city was called to the scene
| but the flames could not possibly be got under
control before many Of the injured had been cre-