Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-03-23
FIFTY -FOUR BODIES
HAVE BEEN FOUND
People Begin to Realize the Ex
tent Of Great Calamity.
sElIEvEO NgARLY 100 MlasIN0


For Bodies at Rroetson-MayOr Is
sues Call for Public Funeral Of Vic,
tins Of Disaster.
Brookton. Mass, March 22-A reali
zation Of the extent of the disaster
which had come to The city OF Brock
ton yesterday in The wrecldng Of the
great wooden shoe factory OF h. b
Grover company. and the ensuing ter
rible loss Of life came more clearly tol
the citizens today when they awolSe tcI
fnll knowledge of IRE horrors at
tendant upon a catastrophe
All night long the work OF searching
for the bodies Of Victims OF the expo
sion and FIRE continued with un,emit
ting zeal The work Was not reward
cd until after midnight BY the fndinaI
Of any additional bodies uutn a
O'Clock today when the remains Of a
human being were found IN the boiler
pit Considering the mystery at
tached to tie disappearance Of David
w Rockwell. the engineer, who was "a
charge OF the boiler which exploded.
the police believe the body found to-,
day was that "a the engineer.
Rockwell sas reported TO have been
rescued yesterday badly injured and
later % have died but the police were
not able to subsequently locate bisI
body II SEEMED moro nbely TO the
police today thai Rockwell near AL
ne was 70 the explosion, was the hrstl
to meet death Tho body Of Steven
Snow, Sc years old ono 81 me oldest
workmen ia the GlOyor plant. was
identified today by his sou.
The finding Of The remains supposed
to be that Of CHE engineer. made the
flityfourth body thus far tabeu from
the ruined factory The nsnres AL
hand early today showed that about
two hundrel ana sixty pertons were al
work n .be factory when the explo
sion occurred had been accounted forl
and that between 30 and 100 poraonal
are missing
Mayor Keith issued q notice today
requesting every clergyman 10 the city
70 meet with him Of O'Clock Gifts ~
tenoon AZ the City Hal 70 make ar
rangemoafs for public funeral services
for the victims OF the accident sug
gestng Thursday Afternoon os a de-
sirable time for them 10 b. held BE-
added also that &c seemed best 10 bury
those bodies whose identlncauon rond
be Impossible In the city cemetery a.
Aielrose. Mayor Keith said ihc iakingl
over Of the ruins would be resumed 10 |
day with larger force 81 men az
work he expressed the opinion that
perhaps a considerable number Of bod |
les would De found IA thar portion Of
uhe plant not yci explored
A more careful search Of me boiler
DO 10 which ihe remains wero found
today resulted 10 ne Endlne 81 81
watch. he rubber heel Of shoe and
torn piece Of clcih.ng. al 81 which,
when shown % Sire nofHgeil mel
wife ~ The engineer were identified
IS her ss beloneng 70 beg husband /
Then the p9liee found pan ora chaifl
Niih a priv 81 q hnmno frame 10 B,l
fiOm Nhici they Inferred fhsl Roct /
well eas s.tiinT beside bls boiler uhuhl
fhe explosion came aud aas tnied .n
aantly The police are satisfied fha'
ere fe8ori yesterday thai tho englneel
had been nkeu o1f olive was Ore 81
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other SmDloye
Wfh fsfercnce 20 tle eanse ~ fhe
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