The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-14
Police Chief Cowles Believes Blaze Started from Gig arctic Which Prisoner fossed from Him-Inves- tigation.
Special from United Press,)

(SDec1al IfOII1 On1C6Q Fr0SS.t
 New Haven. April 14-Overthrowine the report given out this morning at the fire commissioners office that the lives in the fire that destroyed a large section of the New Haven jail had been found, the body of Fireman John Buckley was found in the ruins short " after noon today. It was identified by d ring. The hremen admit that two more bodies are still to be found.
 Coroner Mix. Chief Fancher and the New Haven commissioners arrived at sllnrise today and began an investiga- ton Into the cause of the blaze.
 The cause of the fire is still in doubt, although a majority cling to the theory that crossed wires in the chair factory started the flames.
 All the injured fremen are reported today as doing nicely. While two of them, Cornelius Shugrue and Thomas 1 Waugh. are still in St. Raphaefs hos tpital the others were all able to re- sshngrue and Waugh. whose injuries fWeFe more serious than the rest. are npw expected to recover. although 1t Is { feared the latter will be blind for life.
 Ry0rwalk April 14-Eubert w. Clark of Sonth walk. who is president of presed the deepest regret at the severe loss of life among the New Haven G1T5l11G8.
 me deaths of the six New Haven nremen. in addition to being most sad. will mean the depletion of the State saa each death a a meaning e $ GOO Ii in all. be- be- sides the benefits which will be paid 60 the several other members of the 15epartmenf who were injured fighting
 It was explained at the fire com missioners oflce following the finding of BuckIeyss body, that at first all the bodies were believed to have been found. The remains, however. were 4n such an unrecognizable condition search to be made today believing that possibly ethr bodies or parts Of bodies might be found. The re- l,isssss pieeenaaI cal and pc positive identification has only been made of the bodies of Eieufenant Doherty and Fireman Buckley Only four bodies are now thought to have been recovered. 4 careful examination of the re- mains found yesterday was made this morning and Chief Faneher was told that further search of the ruins would be necessary before the author ities could be certain that al lthe bod les had been found.
 The 6rernen are now digging in the ruins for the remains of the two re- 1naininE bodies they still believe to be missing.
 sonal Investigation today and upset the generally accepted theory as to the origin Of the fire by declaring his be- lief that a prisoner started the blaze by f1inging his lighted cigarette or cigar into Inf1ammab1e matter in the NofEshop
 1T found no absolute proof for this theory said Chief Eow1es., '.but I can scarcely believe that there was much possibility for crossing wires in the workshop. In my opinion about the only way for the fire to have started would have been from a lighted cigar Or efgarette.s
 The Jail officials strictly prohibit smoking and it is expected that Esowles, statement will result in an znwestigation to determine whether pri- soners found 1t possible to smoke in their cells or in the workshops.
 The attention Of the authorities was also called today to great piles of lumber stacked between the rear of