The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-17
IA MYSTERY
 DEVELOPS Dead Woman's Body in Mans Clothes. NO IDENTIFICATION AS YET
 --s-- Boyertown Relatives Are Burying Victims of Theatre Horror. Death Wagons Started ts work Early Moving About the Town Dss- tribatins the cerpses to
 Dinersnt Homss. 

Boyertown. Pa, Jan. 1e.---This little borough which lost one-f1fteenth of its population in the opera house horror Monday night. today turned to the task of burying it's dead.
 Because of the condition of most Of the bodies in the borough, authorities have asked the brave relatives to bury the dead within three days. All night long, scores of men worked in the morgues preparing the identified bodiea for removal to their late homes or to the cemetery. As early as 6 o'clock a long line of death waEons moved here and there about the town dietributinx the corpses and before nightfall most of the dead win be ready for interment.
 There was a slight hitch in the work of removing bodies from the morGnes through the action of Coroner strassar forbidding the removal of any bodies during his absence. This was due to 6 mix-np in the Identification of the body of a boy.
 Three cEafn Body.
 There were three claimants for the body and all appeared before the coro- ner for permission to remove 1t. Each one was positive that the body was the one they were looking for. Therefore. through the apparent mistake. the cor- oner Issued the order.
 Burgess Kohier learned of this and
 
 coroner at Reading where he had gone on business connected with his oface. When tt was explained that the people who had positively identifled their dead wanted the bodies and that bodIea fss dispute would be held the coroner res acinded his order. Since then the corn- mittee working in conjunction with relatives. has removed mora than nftp bodies from the morgue. 1t fe \ com. mon sight to see the men carrying through the streets chnrFed bodies ois boards covered by . blanket or qnilt.
 force Of men started to dig graves Tn Union Csmetary this mornlnk ana they will be relieved at En4arwMas The borough has decided to buy egehf fots for, the burial og tlse aSusanntfzsd 4nna Tn the center of tho lot sulicient space will Dc left for the erection Of mon, umenl. The scenes about the uorRnem were much the same as yesterday Day. light found crowds around the en- frances clamoring for admittanee At [ o'clock the doors were opened and che gruascme work of identifginR was again taken up. It is believed that more than fifty bodies will never be- identified
 Mystery Dsveiepa.
 A mystery has developed aa q re- suit of the examination of the bodies stilI remaining in the school house. In looking over the corpses. coronox Sfrasser cnfue across one he at nrHt had reason to believe was that of a man. but on opening the coat which envelcpod the frame, he was surpri4&d to see that the body was that of a woman. Her whole body was attlred in male garments. even to the under clothing. An investigation ahowen that there was no girl in the play Mcn~ day night dressed in male attir@
 The body is one of those stiil uutden~ tifed and is hardly likely to be claim ed. The features are burned neyon4 recognition. Thus far no one In town has been found who has any reccuect- ion of a person who would answer to the description of the body.
 The death list continues to STOW and 1t Is now feared that the number of victims will reach 1s0 and posnibAy higher. Today Mrs. James Fryer who was injured by leaping from the burn- ing building. died. making the total number of known dead l72,
 q have every known reason to pea Heye." said Coroner Strasser after ulak~ ing another examination of the ruins today. that the number of dead may reach nearly 200. A number of oodiess how many we will never be able t0 tell. were practically burned to a crisp. Nothing remains of them but scatterea ashes."
 Little headway was made today m Identifying the remainder of the re- maining dead. So far ltb bodies nave been claimed