The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-10-03
Three Hundred Men Work increasingly to
Clear Away the Buildings Wreck.
REMAINS BURNED BEYOND POSSIBLE RECOGNITION
Many Wonderful Escapes Reported but the Death List Is
Long and the Human Sacrifice in the Awful
Disaster Is Appalngly
Great.

"a reward If $4,000 fl hereby Of
fered tu any person Or persons fur
nishing information which viii lead to
the arrest and conviction of any per-
son Or persons who Intentionally
caused the destruction Or tile building
Of the Los Angeles Times on I he
morning Of October !. 1910.
tSigncd)
GEORGE ALEXANDER. Mayor
The body of J Wesley Reaves. see
retary to Harry Chandler, Is the only
identified one NJ far recovered Idcnt-
ity IN his ease was established more
By the place IN which II was found
and IN surroundings than hy indca-
tions nr evidence upon tho body Itself.
II was burned into fragments and 50
were the four other bodies taken
out today
First Body Found.
Tho first was found shortly after )
o'clock this morning, and between
that time and 1880 o'clock three more
were recovered all burned beyond any
\ human scmblance. One OF the bodies
| IN supposed to be that of Howard
Cordaway, young member Of the
stereotspfng force. who was caught
with many of the other victims. on
the staircase near the front of tho
building. where the great wall of
| flames entrapped Chambers sccrc-
tary. Reaves body was found lying
beside the warped frame of Il type
writer and the remains OF his chiefs
desk down In the cellar under what
once had been the general managers
office.
Stricken Relatives.
Mrs. Churchill Harvey Elder. VIII,
of the night editor. who died of his
burns and injuries yesterday. arrived
| here from San Francisco and shortly
aftcrward collapsed from the strair
under which She ha, laboreJ since
learning of the catastrophe which
brought death 10 her husband She |,
In a hospital tonight In serious con,
4 dton.
John Howard jr,. son Of ono of tin
linotype operators whose body Is be.
lieted to be In the ruins. also col.
lapsed today. Since the morning o
the explosion which took his father,
life he had been watching the ruins
and waiting for the shovelmen /,
work their way to the body. TODAY
the strain of anxiety and slecplcss
ness grew too great. and he was alst
takrn to a hospital.
Inquest Tomorrow.
Tho inquest will be held Tuesday
At that time tho committee of dyna
mite experts and engineers appOInic,
by Chief of Police Galloway to In,
vcstigatc the Wrcckage ]. In an nffor
to learn the character Of the explosiv,
used Will report their findings. Littl,
In the way of evidence that nigh
lead To the discovery Of clews TO Til,
identity nf the perpetrators has bcei
found 50 far. Detectives have spnn
many hours Of investigation at iii,
homo Of i. j. Icehandelaar. sccrntar'
Of thn Merchants and Manufacturers
association. where an Internal machin
been discovered
Remarkable Escapes.
Among ihr remarkable cscapn
chronicled since The explosion and FIR
|
his crew nf engravers. These mel
were on the sixth floor of the build
Ing. In the few seconds intervening
between tho explosion and the en-
. vclopncnt of the buildings In flames
all these men made their way Il
safety. while the linotype men and tn
printers on the second floor wer
i, trapped by the fire and perished Be
sides Long the engraving crew con
sisted of Hubert Bruce, Edward Bal
Harry Anderson and Charles Seybolf
. All went to work tonight at the tenn
porary plant of the Times. Only on
] of them. Ball. was in any way in
iured. He had few slight brulse
J on one hand.
, Similar remarkable escapes WEI
achieved by Mark Bentley, chit
] pressman of the Times. and his as
I sstants. Bentley and his men Wer
I making ready to run off a sectio
of the Sunday pap.r when the roa
, of the explosion sounded and I'll
5 floors overhead broke and splintere
$ and fell. The press room immediatel