The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-21
This is the thirteenth body found and

identified.
Mrs. Celia Decker wired Chief Could
ing from Butte Mont, today asking
for news of William Decker, whc,-was
bell boy at the Gulnry at the time of
the explosion. 1t is likely the boy
persisted.
Mayor McMurray today received a
telegram asking the whereabouts of
Robert Seneca Haight, who was for
many years treasurer of Gilpin county.
Mr.. Haight registered at the Gumry
August s with his wife The message
is from his sister at San Francisco,
who was notified that probably Mr..
Ha1ght was not in the hotel Sunday
night
S. A. Abbey, supposed to have been
among the dead in the ruins, turned
out to be alive, telegraphing from
Pueblo that he left the hotel the night
before the explosion. He occupied the
room in which Lorah and French
were killed
Work was resumed excavating in the
ruins this evening, the most danger
Gus part of the side wall having been
removed. AT 1:30 p. m. the workmen
We're apparently close. upon three more
bodies in different parts of the build
lng A gold watch and memoranda in
a vest, evidently belonging to A. M.
Munroe of Carthage, Ohio, have been
found. Also personal effects belonging
to Albert S. Blake of Pueblo. The ru-
NOR that the engineer has been seen
awe is not verified.
Many More Bodies.
Work on the ruins was suspended and
the search for bodies discontinued this
afternoon until the walls, which, threat
ened to topple over and bury the work
men could be pulled down.
u IS believed there are at least ten
more bodies in the ruins and several
Gays VIII probably -elapse before all can
be, recovered.
The body. of James NJ. Murphy was
shipped tonight to Cincinnati. where his
brother, Joseph Murphy, lives: the body
of George Burt, the Rock Island railroad
conductor, was shipped to Chicago; the
body of Myron Il. Hawly. The Union Pa
cifc railroad clerk. was sent to Omaha
by request of his wife who was in Chi
cago when he met his DEATH the body
of Frederick Houbbold was sent to Lis
bon, Ia, where he resided and the bodies
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert C .Greiner will be
sent to Grand Rapids, Mich, where they
formerly lived
The anxiety felt regarding ]. A. Brown
and j. l.. Kirke, Of Omaha was some
what relieved this afternoon when it was
learned that the room which they oc-
cupied Saturday night was occupied Sun
day night by William Decker, a bell boy
Brown and Kirke may have left the hotel
Sunday.
They Want Him.
Fire Chief Roberts says that he saw
Elmer LoeSher, also known as Pierce, the
young engineer Whose carelessness caus-
ed the explosion. walking rapidly away
from the scene OF the disaster~about ten
minutes after the fire department arrived.
Detectives are searching for him.
Mayor McMurray, who has remained at
the scene of the catastrophe directing OPP
erations, has announced his intention of
sending a communication to the city
council demanding stringent Iegisla-
ton in regard to the inspection of boilers
and the issue of engineers papers.
The Denver branch of the National AS
ISOLATION of Stationary Engineers will
meet tomorrow evening to take action re-
garding the explosion. The les members
are eXasperated at the laxity said to ex-
list in Official circles in the matter of
boiler inspection.
Tonight three bodies have been re-
moved, and at 1:30 three others are. in
sight, one woman and two men. The
brother of A. S. Blake states that the
first body found tonight is not his rel
ative. 1t may be w. J. Corson of Pu-
eblo. None of the other five can be
identified