Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-23
one of the Victims Of the
Clifton Hotel Fire as Yet
Unknown
INVESTIGATION is BEING MADE
A. P. johnson Still Missing, But it is
Not Certain That the Unidentified
Body is His = He is Supposed to
Have Left Cedar Rapids After the
Fire-lnjured Doing Well.
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Cedar Rapids, Feb. 2S.-All efforts to
identify the remains of one of the VIC
tins of the Clifton Hotel fire have so
far proved futile. The number of dead
is six and it is not thought any others
will be found in the ruins. The injured
are all doing well with the exception of
VIVA Burns, the head waitress. who is
now suffering with pneumonia in addi-
ton to her burns. The physicians,
however,. think she has an even chance
to recover. The death list now reads
as follows:
w. A. Mowery, stockman, What
Cheer. Iowa.
E. G. Young, general foreman for
the Western Union Telegraph Com
many on the Rock Island system, head
quarters. Minneapolis.
S. Jackson, travelling salesman for a
Cincinnati house.
Lewis Chester Burnett Nebraska
City, Neb., travelling agent for II. G.
Elkan & Co., Chicago. died at Mercy
hospital.
DR.. S. G. Grove, dentist, Cedar Rap
ids.
One unidentified.
AT the morgue is this unidentified re-
mains of what is believed to have been
u young, powerful man.
1t was at first believed that this was
A. p. Johnson, but it is now learned
that Johnson went into /, clothing store
after the fire and bought a new suit of
clothes. He is Il grocer of Eagle Grove.
1t was also for a time supposed that
these remains were those of man
named G. r. Holmes. 1t now develops
that this entry on the register was fic-
titious, and that the man who thus
registered is a patient at st. Luke's
hospital. All efforts to identify the
remains of this last victim have up to
the present been futile.
The other remains which We're SO
long unidentified have been positively
found to be those of Sam Jackson, j
wealthy wholesale cigar man of Gin
cnnati. The number of his watch and
the description of his teeth were OBJ
tained by long distance telephone from
his wife, and the remains were shipped
10 Cincinnati Sunday afternoon.
The rooms of the sufferers In the
hospitals were banked With flowers and
fruit carried by hundreds of people on
Sunday. Fraternal organizations raised
handsome sums of money for some of
those who are in need.
Electrician Tom Sloss. of the Cedar
Rapids Electric Light and Power Com
pany. is very positive that the fire
could never nave been caused by any
crossed electric wires. AS a matter of
fact there has never been but one fire
from this cause in the city, and that,
was in Christmas window when cot
ton wool had been pinned to the in
candescent wires and the current short
circuited. The electric wires entered
the Clifton building on the third story
in that part of the building where the
walls are still standing and the main
cut off boxes were also in that part
of the building, on the upper floors.
There We're two small cut off boxes in
the basement, both in perfect order,
each equipped with a five ampere fuse.
The wiring was almost new, having
been put in within the past two years.
TT would be as impossible for fire to
start from crossed electric light
wires" said Mr.. Sloss, as it would be
to produce fire by rubbing this table
with my hand. Had the wires acct
dentally become crossed the fuses
would have blown Immediately and
there could have been no fire. People
entertain very queer and erroneous
impressions about fire from electric
wires, but anyone who knows anything
about electricity knows very we'll that
fire could never have started in this
manner"