New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-22
FIFTY-FIVE BODIES FOUND
Torty-eight Persons Still Missing at
Brockt0n, Mass.

Brockton Mass March H-Fifty-fve dead six
teen identified and forty-eght missing is in brief
tonight the situation following yesterdays catas-
trophe. For the first time since the explosion
the city seemed to-day 10 realize the calamity This
has been brought about by the positive identihca-
ton by bits of clothing otherwise of several
bodies and the failure return home of those who
had they survived. must have before this sought
their friends.
A snowstorm that early to-day covered the grew
some wreckage tonight turned into a disagree
able rain but Drawing the elements We're two dis
tinct groups. In the vicinity of the morsue We're
huddled men, women and children, still hoping
against hope that the chance discovery of bit OF
familiar clothing or object of personal belonging
would lead to the Identification of their dead
At the ruins OF the factory a hundred men.
drenched to the skin. toled increasingly amid the
half burned timbers for fragments OF flesh and
one, which. when found, were hurried TO the
morgue to be scanned by those waiting there.
That the ffty-ive dead represent the total num-
Der OF victims familiar with the disaster be-
lieves. 1t is extremely doubtful. however that
more than fragmentary pieces of other bodies will
be found Medical Examiner Paine said to-
night that he believed other bodies had been re-
duced TO ashes. and that the number Of victims
might never be positively known. He did not be-
lieve that further Identification of the charred re-
mains at the morgue probable. Every body
which had on it any trinket piece of clothing
has been more or less positively identified. Re-
mains which have been placed in boxes and marked
Unknown are in such state that there is
possibility of their being recognized.
This afternoon the first of the funerals of the
victims held, Governor Douglas being among
those who followed the body to the grave The
funeral that of Jerome Mayo finisher in the
factory and brother-n-law of c. l. Fish. a close
friend of the Governor. The services which were
held at an undertakers rooms were conducted by
the Rev. ". NJ Morrison. of the First Universalist
Church.
At the request OF Mayor Keith, clergymen Of all
denomina tions assembled in the aldermen's cham
Der at City Hall this afternoon to arrange for A
public service for the victims 1t was decided tina
the service should be held at 2:3O o'clock Thursday
afternoon in the City Theatre. Two clergyman one
Catholic and the other Protestant will speak
An overflow service will be held at the Porter
Congregational Church at the same hour After
bodies of the unidentified dead taken TO the Mel
rose Cemetery, where the burial will take place
The lot selected by the city officials for this purpose
adjoins that apart for veterans of the Civil and
Spanish
nal and labor organizations take action in re-
gard TO the disaster and in every instance arrange
ments made to offer assistance to the city Of
cials in relieving the distress of bereaved families
Grover Company vino has been Ill for several
weeks. Informed to-day of the loss of life
which attended the destruction OF his factory. He
was temporarily overcome but was better tonight.
Captain Grover told yesterday of the destruc-
ton of his factory. but not of the loss of life At
that time he exclaimed: II glad lives were
lost. Had there been should have felt it my duty
10 care for the families long as I lived"