Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-09
All Men and all but One Woman
In Department Store Ac-
counted For
TWENTY DEAD IN The RUINS.
About Thirty Cash Boys Are Still
Missing Following the Albany,
n w. Disaster

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search carried on since early morning
has revealed the fact that all men and
all but one woman employed IN the
department store Of the John G. Mey-
ers company. which collapsed yesterday,
are accounted for. About 30 cash hots
out Of 10 have not yet reported, but
II Is thought scarcely possible that
many OF them are IN the ruins for the
proportion Of boys thus far known to
be killed and injured is small,
These facts lead to the belief that
the number OF deaths viii prove less
than was feared The dead found thus
far number 10 and there is hope that
not more than half dozen bodies are
sull IN the wreck.
DEATH LIST DOUBLED.
This morning found 200 men still toll
ing over the wreckage OF the John G..
Meyers company department store,
where "a hours ago occurred the saddest
catastrophe in the history OF old AL
bany Eleven dead bodies. many of
them mangled beyond recognition. have
been taken from the ruins thus far
and one woman died after being carried
TO the hospital The known dead list
which last night numbered only five.
has been more than doubled by the
addition Of the following, all employees:
Mary McAver died at hospital.
Anna eastman.
Theresa Spannbauer.
Eta Sprinks
Grace y. Erner.
Helen Malone
John f. Powers. cashboy
In addition to these it Is almost ceS-
tain that Is or 20 bodies still remain
in the twisted mass Of beams, wires,
plaster, brick and Hath, that was once
the main portion OF one Of the city's
largest stores.
HALE or DEBRIS RAISED.
A days work by skilled hands from
the wreckage crew OF the New York
Central and Delaware & Hudson rail-
roads has resulted In raising barely
half the debris
shortly after daybreak the searchers
found the twelfth body 1t was Miss
Helen Malone, young girl who shar-
ed the cashiers gallery ON the main
floor with Anna Whitbeck, Minnie Bull
man and Alice sharp and was crushed
beneath the same girders that killed
her three companions.
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The injured In the hospitals are doing
we'll with two exceptions. Miss Ella
Donohue, one Of the first survivors to
be taken out of the wreck has her spine
fractured and cannot live. Mrs Borst,
of Window. Mimi. who was one of the
few shoppers injured is also reported
20 be In a critical condition. She has
been visiting Mrs. Richard W. Brass,
wife of a well known attorney. The
two women wore out on an early shop
ping tour
Mrs, Brass was also injured but after
being In the wreck several hours was
removed without serious wounds
The only addition TO the list Of in
jured is Thomas Rogers, fireman,
who was painfully though not seriously
bruised and cut while at the work OF
rescue
CORPSES DISFIGURED.
II is thought scarcely possible that any
Of those now imprisoned In the debris
can be alive. Since midnight only dis
figured corpses have been taken out.
Fifty women employees are stlll unac-
counted for, and as the firm has a COM
plete list Of those grave fears are ex-
pressed for the safety Of the majority.
a large percentage of those In the CEN
trail portion Of the building, which COL
lapsed, were women.
The number Of men unaccounted for
Is about the same but the loss Of the
firms books makes anything like "A
complete record of the male employees
inaccessible. II is thought that nine
tenths OF the bodies remaining in the
ruins are those of women.
WHO is RESPONSIBLE?
Now that the first shock of the hor-
ror is passed the people of Albany have
begun TO ask who is responsible. Mayor
Gaus Chief Higgins Of the IRE depart
ment ana Commissioner Cautine OF tho
department Of public safety, believe
that the accident was caused directly
by workmen eXcayating beneath the
basement floor. who undermined one Of
the Key DrlCk piers IN the center OF the
building and their belief Is generally
shared Mayor Claus said today:
every guilty person will be prose-
cuted as soon as we have placed the
responsibility for this disaster. which is
the worst Of It's kind that has ever be-
FALLEN the city"
INVESTIGATION DUE.
An investigation win be begun as soon
as the work Of rescue Is over
The work under way when the build
ing collapsed was IN charge OF Con-
tractor John Dyer, Jr OF the 81 men
employed by him on the building, every
one escaped. In View OF the fact that
nearly all Of them were in or under
the basement In the very center Of the
structure, their escape Is almost mrac-
ulous.
shortly after 10 o'clock the thirteenth
body was found and identified as that
OF Miss Winifred Kelly by her father
who had watched by the wreckage all
night
Two School Teachers Drown.