Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-22
DIGGING AWAY AT THE RUINS
Fire Broke Out Again Which Stopped
Work for a Time.
SEVEN ADDITIONAL BODIES RECOVERED
g. II. wolfe Identities the Remains of
His wife and Child ana starts
Home to Lincoln with Them
-Four Bodies Unidentified.

DEAN EN-, aug, Els-1He DOuy VI tGLtTdl
Charles Adams was taken out of the ruins
of the Gumry hotel at 2 O'Clock this after
noon.
The fire which has been smouldering in the
debris has broken out afresh and is now
burning briskly, 1t threatens to communi-
cate to the front portion of the hotel, which
is still standing, and destroy all that re-
mains of the hotel. There are still several
bodies buried under the ruins.
The fire is under control. 1t was set by
City Building Inspector Cutshaw.
Workmen digging in the ruins had dis
covered a body, believed to be that Of Gen
eral Adams, Just before the fire was started,
but were driven away by the flames before
they could extricate the corpse.
Coroner II. II. Martin has the following
prominent business men as a jury to in
v~estigate the Hotel Gumry disaster: r.. w,
Speer, X. C. G. Cooper, T. b. Cronte, Il. L.
Edbrook, Frank Demange and Charles Bah
cock. The inquiry, which will begin this
evening, will be thorough and searching.
Seventeen bodies have so far been taken
out of the ruins. Several removed early to-
day are so burned and manned as to be al
most unrecognizable and have not yet been
positively identified. G. r.. Wolfe, a cigar
dealer of Lincoln, Neb., has identified the
remains of a woman and child found in the
ruins as his wife and daughter, and will
take the bodies to Lincoln for burial.
At noon today three more bodies had been
recovered, making the total number twenty.
OF the seven taken out yesterday four have
been identified as A.. NJ. Munroe of Colorado
Springs, formerly of Carthage, o., and Lizzie
Lager, Louise Reinguber ana Emma Mile
thaler, chambermaids. The other three have
not been positively identified, but one is
believed to be the body of Peter Gumry.
Including the body Of General Charles
Adams, which had been partially uncovered
and identified when the fire started In the
ruins this afternoon, twenty-one bodies have
been taken from the wreck of the Gumry
hotel.
In eXcavating the ruins things have been
found which raise the presumption that w. b.
Owen, a wealthy man and mayor of Hobart,
Ind, is among the killed, although his name
does not appear on the register. There have
been found in the debris two shirts on which
are stitched the initials "W. b. o" a vest, in
the pocket of which were business cards
of w. b. Owen, president of the Terra
Gotta Lumber company, the main office Of
which is in Chicago, and a canvas bag filled
with samples of fine sand and clay. Mr..
Owen generally notifies X. A. Young, secre-
tary of the company, when he is about tC
come here, but he had not done so this time.
1t was always his custom to go to the Brown
hotel. Secretary Young says he cannot be
lieve that Mr.. owen is in Denver now
alive or dead.
latest remains 10, be taken out are al
most unrecognizable. One Of three unidenti-
fed bodies proves to be that OF Peter Gumry.
One of the other bodies is believed to be the
remains of A.. S. Blake of Pueblo, and the
last is the body of William Decker, bell boy
or w. ]. Corson of Pueblo. Friends of w. j
Blake of Florence, Colo, are convinced that
he was also in the Gumry when the explosion
occurred. Day Clerk Garvin says the names
Of j. s. Kirk and j. II. Brown of Omaha
Neb., and Miss Jennie b. Howard of Boston
Mass, are in the handwriting Of Will Rich.
ards, the elevator pilot, and were probably
fictitious. This leaves only w. B. Owen
w. Harvey and w. A. Dodd, or Todd, to bj
accounted for.
Coroner Martin is still Of the opinion tina
there are many more bodies in the ruins.
Mr.. over has been interested in some
experiments with clay for the making OF
brick, and it was natural, Mr.. Young says
that he would bring with him to Denver
samples of the kind of clay used in his big
vitrifed brick plant in Cleveland, o.
CHICAGO, Aug. CIV. b. Owen is not
one of the victims Of the Denver hotel hor.
ror, as he was at his office in this city yes.
terday. He did not come to his office to.
day, and his associates were at a loss tC
know who the man is on whose body Mr.
Ovens cards were found, unless he wa!
the latter's son, a solution they feared, was
the true one.