The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-08-23

the Others Have Perished-Mass Of De-
bFis Twenty Feet Hish-PrspTietoFs OF
me Hotel Were AmOHg the Victims,
DENVER, aug. Ca portion of the
GumTy hotel, the scene Of Friday
nights frightful disaster, is still stand.
ing, gauRt and sinister, constantly
threatening TO crash down upon those
delving in the ruins, at any moment
The search for victims has been carried
on with the utmost energy constantly
since the explosion occurred and was
continued Monday night with the aid Of
70 arc lights. Flmes broke out agresh
81 the wreckege Monday night and the
ere engines were again pouring forth
water, still further impeding the work
of rescue. The list of dead and missing
now numbers %, making the disaster
the worst that ever occurred in the city.
Only Is bodies have been recovered,
being those Of Manager Greiner and his
wife, clasped in each others arms; Gore
Robert, a Rock Island railroad condao-
Tor; Mrs. George R. Wolfe and daugh-
ter; Fred Hubbold, and Win Richards,
the elevator operator Of the hotel; E, L,
McCloskey of Colorado Springs, a
wealthy owner Of Cripple Creek mines,
and James Murphy, who died while be-
ing taken out.
The dead already taken ont and iien-
titled gre:
FREDERICK HoUBBOLD, manager opera
house, Lisbon, Ia.
R. G. GREINER, manager of GuHry hotel,
Mrs ROBERT C. GRENER.
JAMES MURPHY, contractor. Denver
GEORGE BURT, Rock Island conductor.
i. +. MCCLOsRY, mine owner Cripple
Creek.
MRS g. r. WOLFE, Lincoln, Neb.
CHILD OF Mrs. WOLFE.
WILLIAM RICHARDS, elevator pilot
B. F. LORAH, Central City, Colo.
W. +. EDWARDS butcher Denver.
FREDERICK FRENCH, treasurer of Gipin
county, Colorado.
MYRON Z. HAWLEY, Union Pacific clerk.
Among the missing is now included
Elmer Pierce, the night engineer, who
is said to have re-entered the hotel just
before the explosion occurred. 1t is TO
this mans careleSsness that the disaster
is attributed, The bodies Of Peter
Gumry and General Adams are still in
the ruins. Judge James GIynn, who
was at first supposed to have been in his
room at the hotel, turns out to be at
HOlyoke, Coo, where he was spending
Sunday with friends.
The scene surrounding the death Of
jane Murphy, contractor, was heart.
rending. Tie tremeu engaged in the
rear Of the building heard the agonizing
cries from the man that he was burning,
and asking them to continue to play the
water. After a few hours heroic work
the iremen reached him. His lower
limbs were pinioned between heavy
iOists. After the most hercUleau efforts
with dense smoke binding them the
fTemen released MuTphy's left leg. AT
this moment a sheet of flame compelled
them to withdraw. Murphy then Of
fered his rescuers 81, 600 to get him out
and piteously demanded that they chop
his leg of. a second later the west wall
collapsed and covered Murphy with tons
of ruins, Nr, Murphy came to Denver
from Omaha six years ago.
Mrs. George R. Wolfe, from Lincoln,
Neb., visiting Mrs. Schmittell, was a
victim Of the catastrophe She was ac-
cOmpanied by her 5.year-old daughter
The whole rear half Of the hotel was
blown to atoms and the front portions
are merely shattered and burned fTag-
ments of a house. The force of the ex-
plOsion was so great that for two blocks
on Lawrence street and for some dis.
tance on LaTimer street every window in
the business blocks lie shattered in
pieces upon the pavements IL was a
catastrophe complete aud pitiiess in its
horrors.
The total loss caused by the fire aud
explosion is about S75,0OO The Gumry
hotel was worth about $685. 900.
SEARCH FOR BODIES SUSPENDED.