The Detroit times., 1908-01-14
CHARRED BODIES
Of 80 ARE
RECOVERED
AT LEAST 100 MORE coRPsEs LIE
IN CHASTITY HEAPS ON FIRST
FLOOR OF soYERrowN OPERA
HOUSE.
IDENTIFIED DEAD.

Alice and Mary koghel, or Potts
Mrs Becker. of Boyertowk, with her
three young children; Mrs. Leidy, Boy
ertown. with her Ave children; Miss
three children. of Boyertown; Laura
Chin, Boyeftown; Mrs. Ada M. l.. Moy-
er. Besertawn; Anna Leidy. Boyer
town FLORENCE Weand- BayertoMn1
Maggie Lefevre. Boyertown; Miss Lei
bach BoYertoMn; Mamie Fomo, Boyer
town. Mrs. Frank Cullen. Boyertown;
Lulu tagley. Boyertown; Mrs Daniel
Gabel, Boyertown: Daniel Kramer,
Boyertown; Mrs. Daniel Kramer and
daughter Lottie, -BoyertowniF Fred
Gottschall, Boyertown; Mrs. Fred Colt
schall, BoyertoWn; Elisha Reinert, Boy
ertown; Harry Toms, Boyertown; Mrs
Harry Reinardt. Boyertown; Mrs. Geo
Romig, Boyertown; Herbert Godscha,l,
Boyertown. Mrs. Herbert Godschan,
Blanche Hoehl, Boyertown; Mabel
Hoehl Boyertown; Ellen Godsehall
Beyertown1 Mabel tran. Boyertown;
Mrs. ]. J. Becher, Boyertown; three
children of Mrs. Becher; Lottie RAIDER
Boyertown; John RAIDER. Boyertown;
Chas. Leyer, Boyertown; Daniel krause
Boyertown, Morris Anderson. Boyer
town, James Anderson, Boyertown;
Mrs. James Anderson. Boyertown; two
children and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
Boyertown; Mrs Carrie Weand Boyer
town; Franklin G.. Leidy Boyertown,
A. Foreman, Boyertown; Mrs. Fore
man, Boyertown. Chas. Lowcry Boyer
tOWu, Jennie II 0nZef boy eFlOWnr shfo-
Mary Tabor. Boyertown; Mary Fore
man. Boycrtown: Mrs. Harry Foreman,
Boyertown. two children OF MIR, ana
Mrs. Foreman, Boyetown; daughter
Of Amos EnEle: Clarence Haltzman.
Boyertown: May Bauman, Boyertowni
Mrs. Ephraim Johnson, New Berlin
VILE: Mrs. Amos Hartman, New Der.
Invite; Miss Johnson. u daughter OF
Mrs. Ephraim Johnson; wife of DIR.
Francis, New Berlinville; Frank Boyer.
New Berlinyille: VIM Boyer, New Der
-. AT..KF nF1 W.
Anna norr New Berllnville: Mrs Anna
Bauman, New BerlinvilIe: Herbert
Johnson. New Berlinville. Mrs. Herbert
Johnson. New Berllnville: daughter OF
Wm Boyer New Berlinville: Mrs. Reu-
ben Hoffman, Giliettevillei Oscar IA.
Mencl. Gilletteville; Miss Lizzie Zeig-
vile; Mrs. E., Z. Mayors. Washington.
Tss@ss THE LAYERS.
Emma Drake. Annie Johnson. Edna
Crause, Mabel Noster Annie FREEMAN,
George Rongny! Letta Hand. Carrie
I.orah. Sheldon t'rucn, Howard Wren.
Clarence Scauser. Robert Kern. Sichad
Schwenk. Wilmer Leidy, James Fitz.
VIM and irwin Brown Kelly Boyer
Aneas Thompson, Sallie Houseman'
Mark Foy Geo So;, MSssT H Tsnnr Geo so'i 3
Houly. Richard Turner
BoYERToWN, Pa, Jan. ID
The bodies Of % women and chill
dren, charred beyond recognition,
have been taken from the stu
smouIderinq ruins Of Rhodes
opera house, up to 2 O'Clock. and =
on the first floor, lying In a heap
and twisted and eontorted from
their death agony are at least
100 more. Piled in ghastly heap
they Ile-n1en, women and chill
dren--wniIe workers with shovels
loosen the CHASTITY heap and drag
out the bodies, which are taken to
morgues. where identification can
only be made from trinkets.
n. {. Smith, operator Of the pic
ture machine, Is under arrest.
The bodies recovered are laid In
long rows In the morgue and on
the street.
BOYERTOWN, Pa, ian. 14.-One
hundred and sixty persons. according to
officials of the Reading railroad. mostly
women and children, were trampled
and burned to death. and 200 were In
jured. many fatally, in a fire which
destroyed the Rhoades opera house
here, last night.
The catastrophe resembled the lro-
quois horror in Chicago and the Slo-
cum disaster In New York, where hun
dreds of women and children perished.
Nearly every family in the little vii
lage OF $500 inhabitants is bereft and
tContinued ON second PsEep.