The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-03-27

20 Down in history as the fire disas
ter Of Washington square entered
upon its aftermath tonight with So oi
nearly $50 victims identified.
Tie official death list has beea
Iessened rather than increased. The
revised list shows 141 dead tonight
with twelve women and girls a
deaths door in the hospital.
One hundred and fifty all told will
perhaps conservatively cover The
casualties when those whose horrible
hurts and burns prove fatal shall
have joined their workers at the
morgue.
Female Victims 10 to l.
A careful counting still rates the
female victims young and old sr
proximately 10 to every MAZE
Broadly speaking they are Jewish OF
Italians living on the east side or
in the Italian quarter near the scene
of the fire. With all the dead re
moved from the building the coroner
began an investigation, one Of sew
eral to be conducted by officials.
An inquest will be held and its re-
suit will be placed before the grand
jury. Many grand jurymen visited
the scene and Distrit Attorney Whit
man announced those responsible viii
be prosecuted
Thursday night mass meeting
will be held at Cooper's Union to
agitate far more adequate protection
of so called fire proof buildings.
The United Hebrew Charities and
IHdbrow burial societies announced
tonight they were ready to relieve
any distress caused by the fire.
The Independent Order Of Bnai
Birth has opened subscription fund
throughout New York and adjoining
states for the sufferers.
Directors of the Metropolitan opera
house have offered the building fred
for a benefit prformance.
Officials Make Statement.
Dr. George Clush, chairman of an
investigation committee, appointed by
the Cloak, Suit and Shirt industries
union of New York, last September
to investigate and remedy sanitary
and protective conditions of the mem
bers of that union, gave out a state.
ment with a long list of factory
buildings which he said failed to com
ply with fire regulations. He adlled
What was the expected has hap
pened. The ilimsy fire protection in
the large buildings of New York has
caused what | predicted.
"If however this building was the
only one unprotected the condition
would not be so terrible The fact
IL that there is hardly a large loft
building in New York which is better
protected against fire.
In a statement to the press issued
today Borough President McAnepy
said the five hundred firemen recent
ly detailed by Fire Commissioner
Waldo fer the purpose reported $50,
buildings lacking adequate fire es
capes. The building department has
already investigated 700 of these anc
reported only 10 per cent of them
were in violation of the building code
He said the building in which Sat
urdays disaster occurred Is no
among the cases reported by the fir.
department.
Digging For Bodies.
Mr.. McAneny urged a thorough re
vision of the code relative to fire
escapes to a commission of building
and fire experts to be appointed by
the city.
While crowd of morbid thousands
was held back by the police the fire
men with graphing irons and fire
hooks sought victims in the flooded
cellar Of the building all forenoan
A steam pump emptied the basement
of water and the firemen believe,
when they rested at noon they wouit
find no more dead.
Tonight however they carried ou
another body making three recovere,