The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-25
MANY STILL MISSING.
OF Those Who Were Guests at the
Baldwin Before the Fire.

San Francisco, Nov; $50 far, as now
IRE number FIVE, as followsI
1. Nj. LEIGHTHEAD.
LEWIS MYERS.
TATE PRYOR,
The bodies of Leighthead and Pryor
59 9e Oeen e9eqXere hot nat OF F a1dg
though his remains a are do9btesg9 among a
foTwarded to St Io2is' where his M5i wife
resides. It was found under, mass of
ed but was Identified BY the peculiar gold
filling of the teeth.
resident of Tennessee. He was born and
reared in Nashville, where he held the Of
was in the county Clerks Office. While
there his health failed and he went to
he became Interested in racing and since
has been actively identified with the sport,
either as an owner or an official A sis
ter, Mrs. Wilson, lives in Nashville and
he has three nephews. They all went to
Manila IN a Tennessee regiment.
There are undoubtedly other bodies to
be found Manager Lake of the burned
hotel says that many of his recent guests
have not called on him since the fire for
tnelri In aa. or 70 lnqulre ABOUT thelr per
of the persons occupying rooms were not
registered at the office.
There are .rurnors of incendiarism in con-
nection with the fire. the crime being at
tributed to a discharged employee who it
is said had made threats to burn the
place. Two fires were discovered in the
hotel and its annex on Friday night of
last week. but both We're extinguished
without doing any damage. Another
theory of the origin of the blaze is that
it was the. carelessness- of the cooks and
walters, who are alleged to have INDUCED
in a revel in the kitchen on the night be-
fore the building was burned. The fire
wardens will Investigate the matter.
w, b. Sink, the horsenan who stopped
at the Baldwin, is in bed at the Hotel
Langham with the soleS of both feet
blistered and his lungs severely burned.
His wife is also Frustrated from the shock
she received.
Charles NIcCarthy,a traveller for an east
ern whisky firm, may also have persisted
day night and has not been seen since by
his friends.
The dead body of J. NJ. Leighthead was
body was discovered in the bathroom ad-
joining his apartment, sitting in a chair,
almost as natural as life. It was par
TALLY burned and blackened by smoke,
but was easily recognizable. It is sup
posed that he fell asleep in the chair, but
was overcome by the smoke before the
flames commenced to eat at his flesh.
able body, supposed to be that of a wo-
man, was recovered from the ruins of the
theater. The idea that there are many
more bodies IN the ruins is gaining ere
dence and the firemen engaged in search
ing the accessible part of the ruins report
that a terrible odOr such as follows the
ing apparent. This is particularly true
in the debris on the Ellis street side. where,
it is believed, persons have been lost whose
identity is unknown and who were not
included in the list of the guests.
The hotel safe, containing many valua-
bleS belonging to guests, including $50 900
in cash, has been located.
Many rumOrS are in circulation regard
ing the disposition of the site. Among
those are said to be contemplating re-
placing the Baldwin with a magnificent
Southern Pacific railway, J. D. Spreckels
and James D. Phelan.