The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-06
Nv Associated Press.


Cleveland, Ohio. March 1.-The
+ c5a.h roll tonight resulting from the
s n in the CollinwUod school yeSter
s day numbers l64.
. Or these, l31 have been Identified
a. the Lake Shore mOrSue. while q
bodies remain there in condition OF
nutilation, probably foreye. beyond a
chance OF being recognized. 1t is be
ieyed all bodies thai can be removed
from the ruins have been taken out.
Fire Marshals Brocket and Feigen-
baum examined the doorway today,
and state they are convinced that the
d0or opened outward. but whether
+ was locked they have not been able
q determine. Janitor Herter still in
s;sts the door was open.
BlaCkened Bodies.
The bodies are so blacksned by fire
and sEl&a, 50 battered and bruised by
camping feet that there is no human
f1ancs OF their identity being estab-
,sled by anything. Ii is only by
MEALS Of some small article of wear
Eg aDuarel that their names can be
sscPrySined.
The cause of the fire which caused
M frantic panic, a narrow hallway
and doors which Is claimed by many
we're made TO opan toward the inside,
FL S mystery. II was at first sup
fosed that it came from an overhead.
e. .'-Aa"e or an exploded boiler in
Il 5asement OF the schoolhouse
Possible Cause.
!, mas been established that there
Va no explosion. and the ianitor OF
The s. hool, Fred Herter. three OF
whose children died w;;::..Gin arms
length OF their fathcrr. declares that it
coa'd not have come from the furnace
fe.-eTiay the weather we.s compare
lively warm, besides the last few days
preceding it. He de-
Cares he maintained the fires at
lowe heat than usual throughout the
early Part of the morning. Fearing he
Tad not sufficiently warmed the build |
iGg. N was. according to his story, |
q his way to open the furnace drafts |
end increase the heat when he was |
or by three little girls running from |
ne has ment who told him there was |
A~n below. These three little girls |
7-e ROM being sought by the pOA-e |
a>i he fire commissioners. II Is con-
S.1e~ed entirely possible by certain
members CT the CSIlinwocd school
farl that they may have. through !
c0a'essress, started the blaze that
COST the lives OF 50 many children.
Incendiary Origin.
l.. r. Gardner, a member of the
schcOl beard, is positive in his asser-
Ten that the fire was of incen1iary
Q. sin. In that portion of the building
Nne.e It was dts OVered there are no
Electrical wires, there was no waste
o. rags. there was no direct means of
coating heat. 1t is therefore believed
. W. Gar dner aud by others thai
The three little girls may, if they are
e'er found throw some light on the
SlSe Of the awful tragedy of yeSter-
tr.
There were in the building at the
me he fire was discovered between
S-o and 500 pupils. They were under
1e control Of nine teachers. Two OF
are among the dead that lie this
:. 1.c1h!NT in The temporary morgue in ;
,.e warehouse of the Lake Shore and
A.cH.san Southern railroad at Colling- (
NCoa
!ne school was overcrowded and
quarters had been provided for the I
'.-StF children in the attic. Strange i!
=. ~ NAY seem, more of the pupils es- ]
r. ,7cm this part of the school '
~ nan from any other.
-. - ca.ld-an were under good dis
SUI they had been practiced fire.
IT -'i' N ~ fire drill their teachers
,c ,,''D1 exception retained their SELF
g.. On, showed great courage III
M e. imminent death, and yet
49, 's7 h''f Of these little ones
~. lA-e deaths because of faulty
ING a-.2ngemenfS.
.,5 >.tIcl house was two stories
=, a1t IN height. the walls being
/. = and concrete. Inside it was
r. which burned with almost
a '+-'a9ia rapidity. The entire in
,7,- was mass OF smoking ruins,
- III The cellar within thirty min L