The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19
SIXTEEN DEAD AND 66 MISSING
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the police and corps of inspectors to
| guarantee against the possibility of
| making away with any valuables
they may find. Nearly every guest
who was saved lost expensive jewelry
or jewels. Some lost diamonds to the
value Of MANY thousands.
In front of the building a one-story
frame house has been erected This
will be the office of the contractor and
the police headquarters also. To this
all valuables will be taken.
When the hour of the change of shifts
arrives the men coming off duty will
be ca He'd into this place and searched
for valuables. No laborer will be per-
mntted to leave his work and go out
side the lines or communicate with a
person inside the lines while at work.
The last will and testament of
Benjamin E. Jones, executed May II,
1884, was found this afternoon. 1t dis
poses or quarter of a million dollars
in property. Attached to it was a
codicil which provides for the DISPOSE
ton of other property. The will was
turned over to the building department
Near the same spot some railroad
bonds We're picked up. They were wet
and badly burned. What bonds they
We're could not be determined
Some of the bodies in the ruins may
be recovered by Monday or Tuesday
1t Will take a week to get at some of
them and perhaps it will take twice
as long to get at those in the cellar
Every preparation has been made for
the handling of the bodies. Wagons
with stretchers will be inside the
lines and the coroner will take. charge
of the bodies at once
The Gould home was a point of in
terest today. Several hundreds of
persons who managed to get inside the
lines waited around in hope of catch
ing glimpse of the woman whose
charitable acts yesterday and today
We're so spontaneous
The police threw a guard around the
house. 1t had been slightly damaged
by fire. Miss Gould and her brother
Frank occupied the house Friday
night, although they had permitted it
to be turned into a hospital and
morgue during the fire. Today three
men were slightly hurt while working
about the walls. They were taken to
the Gould home and waited there until
the arrival of an ambulance.
ROBBED THE DEAD.
A. A. Minis Of this CITY, said he went
to the hotel yesterday afternoon, ar
irving at o'clock. He went up in the
elevator to go to the rooms of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Wellman, who are missing.
al Tie luIru llOOT he anu the hler per
sons in the elevator heard thu shouts
of fire and the elevator stopped at the
third floor. He got out and ran to the
front of the house and to the fire
escape. In the end room he saw a
man, a stranger, and one who did not
appear to be a guest of the house
grabbing UP valuables in the room like
a miser. He said he was astounded at
the sight.
II caught the man." said Mr.. Minis,
land said, why don't you try to save
some lives instead of robbing dead
people?'
The man turned his face to me and
gave me a look that seemed to be that
of murderer's. Then he dashed out.
He was about 90 years of age and
dark. I'm sure he. was not a guest of
the hotel
Commissioner Scanned said today
that the burning of the Windsor hotel
was about what he had expected. He
declared that it was one of the worst
fire traps in New York, and added:
There are other hotels in this city
as bad as the Windsor. IND unless the
proprietors put their p.dces in proper
condition for saving life L will publish
a list that | have in my possession