Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-22
Rescue Gangs Hunt for Sur
vivors of Crib Flames in
Hope That Men Are Still
Alive.
UNIDENTIFIED DEAD
TO REST IN ONE GRAVE;
DEATH LIST INCREASES
Officials Fear That Many Workmen
Spent Nights in Crib and May
Have Perished in Flames That De-
strOyed Building.
OBJ AssoeiAtsd Prsss.l

CHICAGO. Jan 1--Presicent Joseph
TAndrea. president OF the Sewer and
Tunnel Miners association, expressed the
fear today that the death list in yester-
DAVIS accident may reach leo.
u am told ne said. that there
were about Us men working at the crib
when the fire started IL this proves true,
the umber OF dead viii easily reach one
hundred Many OF the men who are
missing are Undoubtedly at the nattom
of the lake and their bodies viii prob
ably never be recovered Our organization
WIN make an Investigation"
Suffocated i'm Shaft
shortly after the fire which burned the
temporary crib structure and compelled
the workmen who were not entrapped by
the flames TO jump into the lake and try
TO float on blocks Of ice, IL was dis
covered that the smoke had descended in
70 the shaft and had suffOcated several
men. but the hope was still sustained to-
day that the smoke did not perhaps pen
citrate far into the shaft All the air
pumps we're kept working and il was
believed that some men would be found
stiTf living
!. George ". jackson, OF the construction
company which built the crib. today in
formed the coroner 1t would be impos-
sfble for several days 10 give a complete
list OF the dead Many OF the workmen
had the choice OF remaining at the crib
and OF having their food furnished by
the company instead OF going home
every night
May Hold Single Funeral
whether or not many OF the men were
taking advantage OF this arrangement
al the time OF the fire can only be learn
ed By application to their homes.
As IL viii be impossible to identify
more than a few OF the dead. II is prob
able that a single funeral viii be held
for all Of them ne interment WIN be
al the same cemetery and- probably a
single tombstone cOmmemOrating the
tragedy viii serve for all.
Bodies in Sacks
Inside the undertaking rooms. like the
granary OF some terrible Bluebeard. rested
forty-seven sacks. each containing the
unrecognizable body-in many cases only
the torso-of those who met death in the
charnel house I'm the lake. In the street
a quiet, grief-strieken crowd stood talk
ing softly in groups or Flooding up and
down the slippery walks
ANY news7 was a query always an
swered in the negative as some wife or
mother sought to learn Of husband or
son had been recognized or otherwise
identined.
Poor Andy cried one watcher. a
friend OF Andrew Anderson. who is among
the missing He hadn't been here long,
and it's hard on his mother and father In
Brooklyn
No Human Semblance
Unless very persistent. inquirers are not
allowed within the mOrgue. The bodies
have no human semblance. all look alike
and where possible Il was desired TO spare
friends and relatives the shock OF gazing
on the awful spectacle
There Is no hope OF knowing father.
son or brother" said Coroner Hoffman as
he began the work OF securing jury to
visit the scene OF the holocaust
In the lake the tug MOrford continued
it's search among the Ice foes for bodies
OF any who may have been drowned