The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-23
Alfred 6altiel Of Philadelphia
Added to the List.
4 SUSPICION or DYNAMITE,


A big. black streak Oh a wall os white.
capped by torn ard shattered masonry.
window frames edged with = few pieses Of
cracked glass. a sidewalk, the big r1Anks
OF which arc ripped ard splinaefsd. ard a
half buried boiler were the grim objects
that met the sight % thousands who
d0cked 10 the corner of Washington street
and Second avenue south yesterday 20 view
the scene OF Tuesday nights deafn-deslng
sxptoston.
In Inc morxnc lay the bodies 81 two
young men, .hei. bones broken. their bodies
bruised. while one poor fellow tossed on a
6Ad At Providence hospital IN Gear:um. how
1ring between life and death
The list of the dead now includes
d. ". Jacobs, travelling salesman for
F1orxheim Il Co. - Madison street, Chr
caKo.
Alfred Haltiei. travelling salesman for The
International Art Company. and Waiver
ly place, New York.
Louis Aanaii, an Italian saborer. is the
one who ties at Providence hospital. The
attending physician has some hope that he
viii recover He IL pis!sui l4ight however.
AZ he tossks about be s1utters words the
meaning OF which are last In incohereBcy-
His eyes are black and blue. HIS body is u
mass os bruises and his left leg IL broken
tn several places. He has suffered Internal
Injuries beyond a question of doubt
Death came to the rescue OF Alfred Sal
tel al AZ O'Clock yesterday morning HIS
friend and companion. Jacobs. had passed
away. conscious TO the last moment when
he said 10 those al his bedside. Don't tel
any aged mother" But saItiel never rst-
He'd The explosion that hurled him hieeu
Ing and managed Into the street had done
Its work. He never knew what struck
him.
=. ". Beail. OF ST. Louis. who travels
Tor g. 3. q. W. seiieFsnsrhern, os fiiov~
ersvilIe. y. r., Is getting along nicely 4,
the Seattle hotel. notwithstanding 4 Report
last evening that he was unconscious aud
might die.
lin head Is badly bruised. both ankles
arr sprained. his knees are skinned ana
one wrist Is severely twisted That ne
WIS not Instantly killed Ia little less thaS
miracle. be was walking between Ia
ceas and Saltiel when the explosion .o.ak
place. ard was almost directly over the
heller He says that he believes MS big
kiondiko ulster saved his life He has
an aiisiistinct recollection OF striking the
ground after going high In the air, but
everything was SO sudden that he cannot
give any description Of the sensation Of
being blown up. IL must have been tin-
conscious for about twenty inmates. said
Mr. Beaii. II recall hearing some one
say, Well. ! guess he's done for. I won
dered what It ali meant, for the moment,
and replied Well, 1 guess no.. I'm bet
ter than a hundred dead men, When I
looked around there lay poor Jacobs. SAL
ttel and another man. We had been car
rfed into a restaurant after being picked
up in the street"
Went High im the Air.
Mr.. Beall was undoubtedly the one who
Is described as going high In the air. He
struck the telegraph wire aud. turning a
komefsauit, came back 10 earth. HE struck
on beth feet, and after running few
steps Into the street plunged headiong 10
the ground, whore he lay like a dead man
His father. F. II. Bealt. Is on. of the
1asl-knoun men IN ST. Louis. ana lives
al saa5 Bartmer avenue. II. W Beaii Is
u meinAer OF the jefferson Club of ST.
Louis. and has an extensi,e circle OF
friends
H. Moss. n travelling man of Lancaster,
Pa. ana Albert swanson, Of &c Maynard
avenue. were not injured seriously. Mess
VAS out yesterday.
The remains Of Jacobs will be gent 10 his
old home in Quincy, Ill. for insermen,
lie was member % The Elks lodge Of
SesIaila, Mo His mother and brothers
live az bonneville. Mo. The members of
the local lodge OF Eiks VIII meet AZ Bon
ley 4 Stewards undertaking rooms AZ s;ss
this afternoon TO attend services over ia
cohs' remains.
No arrangements have been made for
the burial af Saltiefs body. II viii prob
ably he sent East Although he travelled
fcr a New York Arm. he lived In rhiaaet-
pSia. according % Information received at
Bennev a Stewards yesterday afternoon.
The official investigation into IN. cause
of the explosion viii take place this after
NOON a. o'clock AT Ronney s. Stewart <
undur the direction OF Coroner Sparisng
The e.roncr visited the scene of the ex~
pioSsen yesterday morning atcuusfsa agad
by Ierufy teeanet Dr VIII Powers II
have no opinion 90 offer. said the eoroneT
Several experts viii be called al the tn
quest ia give opsnienx as 20 th. cause ~
the explosion, The coroner denied posi-
tsxesy that he had said ANYTHING about
having Dave blake, proprietor ef the
house With which star hoiter was connect
eli. arrested. ~ have no isaa how such
report got onf.' said the cetomer
There sre theories galore To account Tar