Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-14
Fully 100 Missing.
But Probably Safe.

Boston, April 13.-With nightfall the
| work among the ruins ceased. All
electric light, telephone and trolley
wires were down throughout the ter
ritory and although linemen had been
busy during the day, the blackened
waste lay in darkness, the glimmer oil
q lantern of some patrol being the on
ly signs of life where but a few nights
ago TIL, innumerable picture theatres,
stores and homes lit up the street
brightly
Search for the missing among the ru-
ms was abandoned sun down.. The
territory was so densely populated that
it will take long time to examine the
ruins thoroughly. People hunting for
missing relatives and friends had to
confine their efforts to the hospitals.
bureaus and the many neighboring
cities and towns.
While the list of dead still remains
at three it is believed that there must
be more somewhere among the black
ened timbers and stones.
So far as can be learned there are
fully 100 missing. The work at reduc-
ing this list necessarily proceeds slow
ly. Families scattered widely in the
first excitement and so many We're the
places of refuse offered in the thickly
populated metropolitan district, dis
trict second only to New York in point
of population and covering wide area,
that the work of systmatizing a search
proceeds with great difficulty. In q
large majority of cases fathers and
brothers sent the children and women
out of danger early in the cOntlagratiOn
and remained behind until the last
moment in the hopes of saving some Of
their possessions. The fire travelled so
rapidly that they had to make hasty
escapes were unable to rejoin the
others of their families.
Offices for registration purposes to
assist in reuniting families and trac-
ing the missing were opened by the
different committees, police and news
papers and during the day and night
many of the missing reported them
selves.
All the patients treated at the sew
eral hospitals were reported as doing
nicely and it is believed that no fur
Their fatalities will result among the
injured Two women were reported to
have gone insane during the day as
result of their experiences.
One gratifying feature of the situa-
ton is the fact that all the homeless
people are well housed. So far as
known no one is sleeping out of doors
or in tents. Ample accommodations in
the halls, public buildings and private
houses of the neighboring places were
furnished for all refugees. Provisions
poured into the relief stations from all
sides and during the night meetings of
citizens in various cities and towns
of the state took steps to organize re-
lief work. House to house canVasSes
will be made for financial aid, food
and clothing. Mayor Beck of Chelsea
has especially emphasized the need of
children's clothing and in many of the
public schools tomorrow appeals for
articles of this kind will be made. 1t
is believed that Massachusetts will be
amply able to provide for the suffere-
RS, but Acting Governor Draper, May
or Beck and other officials, as well as
the citizens generally, express their
deep gratitude at the spontaneous Of
fers of aid that came from all over the
country.
The 1O5th Co. of United States Ma
rines at the Charlestown navy yard
received high praise for their work,
These young fellows were found al
ways in the midst of the fire and un-
til the arrival of heavy reinforcements
OF the National Guards of the state did
heroic work in restraining the crowds
ana i'll carrying people and household
goods from blazing tenements 1t was
largely through their personal efforts
tnat the loss of life was kent aS Low
as it was