Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-21
List of Dead In Cedar Rap
ids Fire Now Numbers
TWO DEATHS OCCURRED TODAY
Finding of Transfer Register and
Identification of Bodies Found Yes
terday Now Certain That G. E.
Holmes and chas. Cook are Among
the Victims.
Special to Times-Republ.can.


Cedar Rapids, Feb. o1.-The death
roll OF the hotel disaster here is now
/ increased to six. L. C. Burnett, hide
buyer for Chicago firm, and whose
home is at Nebraska City, died this
morning. Two hours later DR.. g. s.
Grove, of this city, died from his in
lu1ies. Late last evening body, sup
posed to be that of 6. E. Holmes, resi-
dence unknown. was taken from the
ruins. This brings the death list up to
six, four of whom met death in the
/ building and two who have died of in
i jurfes received while attempting to
escape. The unearthing of the trans
/ fer register has, 1t Is thought, settled
\ the identity OF two of the dead now ly-
/ ing at the Beatty undertaking rooms.
1t is believed that the bodies are those
Of Charles Cook. a Rock Island engi-
neer. and G. r. Holmes. The residence
of neither is known. The transfer does
not bear the addresses of the guests,
but simply their names and the rooms
1 to which they were assigned. Charles
Cook was a small man, as is one of the
bodies at Beatty's. Cook was last seen
with w. A. N1owery, another of the VIC
4 tins of the holocaust, shortly before the
| fire broke out. The bodies of the two
men were found lying close together.
4 1t is believed that Cook had gone to
| Mowery's room and that the two per-
| ished together, in room 80. 6. r.
| Holmes was assigned to room 3. and 1t
was directly under this that the body
| believed to be that of Mr.. Holmes was
I found With the identity Of these two
| established. there are still two miss
| ing. They are S. Jackson and A. p.
johnson, tho as in the case of the other
| two men. their addresses are unknown.
! The transfer was gons, over carefully
by MIR. Young and Marshal KoZlovsky
land 1t is almost certain that no other
lives. with the possible exception OF
| these two, were lost.
| The corrected list of dead reads:
| w. A. Mowery, What Cheer.
| T.. c. Young. general foreman OF w.
/ T.. Telegraph Company, Minneapolis.
Charles Cook. address unknown.
l G. e. Holmes, address unknown.
L. C. Burnett. Nebraska City, Neb.
| G. S. Grove. Cedar Rapids
/ AT 1880 last evening the remains OF
e. G. Young, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
1 foreman for the Western Union on the
| Rock Island system, wore discovered
in the electric light search among the
| ruins When the charred body was
taken to the undertaking establishment
Iit was found that the man had sue
ceeded in putting on his clothes. These
were but partially burned and In the
| pocket of his coat was found his book
of passes on the various railroad sys-
| TENS with his name plainly written
thereon.
J Workmen are still searching the deb
ris and it is expected that two addi-
tional bodies will be found. OF the
forty-two injured. all with the possible
exceptions of Miss Burns, the head
waitress, Conductor Strickland and b.
f. Taylor are expected to recover.
\ Most OF the patients in the hospital
are doing well. The recovery of Louis
Thompson is considered doubtful. L..
1B. Stuart, OF Monmouth, who broke
both legs jumping from the third story.
iiwill recover DOC" Strickland, the
Northwestern conductor who was con-
sidered in a dangerous condition will
recover, and has been taken to his
home at Clinton. Vina Burns one of
the dining room girls who made the
terrible leap from the third story, has
developed serious symptoms tho her life
is not despaired Of
! A little group of men stood at the G.
& N. w. depot last night and thanked
God In shaken sort of way for their
good fortune in escaping the fate of the
men who lay UP at the morgue. Some
IoP ha1
hotel and told the story of their res
cue or escape in voices that trembled
with the recollection Of those few ter
rible minutes that they will never for
Iget. Others had been prevented by de-
Ilayed trains from reaching Cedar Rap
ids and their language of thankfulness
over their delay was more fervent than
Athey had used the evening previous
iwhen they found themselves laid out"
at Belle Plaine, Dysart and other
/ points near the Rapids. Over and over
again they told the story as new au-
ditors came crowding UP and there
was never lack of audience for an in
stant.
uoiLitzyonainc mtfaocm hcmfetaocm
Cedar Rapids was dazed all day yes
lterday The city was simply horror
w
rescue mechanically but effectively.
/ Never had such a calamity fallen upon
the city The streets We're crowded with
the inhabitants of the adjacent towns
and of the city proper. Thousands
crowded about the smoking ruins of
the hotel and stared at the workers
lin the basement. Hundreds Of women
stood all day and Watched the work,
unfed, with the mud and water half
way to their ankles. AS the workers
ICame upon a woven wire mattress or
1.-THE tangled pipes of an iron bed the
Icrowd rose on tiptoe and thousand
|necks craned for Il glimpse at the ex-
Injected horror. And when the horror
came at last end the awful thing be-
meath the wire mattress was dragged
forth and kindly covered from the sun
shine and the sight of mankind the
faces of the great crowd went sud
Idenly white and woman across on
the First Avenue side cried outas wita
la hurt and ran staggering toward the