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

The overcoum was probably due
to the checking Of a charred portion
, of body as a corpse.
No Light. Shed.
! The work of the day shed no light
on the cause of the flames. This prob
ably will never be known. Sparks
, from the motor driving the sewine
machines shooting through the lin
! filled air OF the operating room to
four inch carpet of scraps on tae
fire could easily have started fire
But Chief Croker was unwilling TO
, say tonight that in his opinion !;
originated in that way.
An Immense Throng.
Two hundred thousand persons,
the police estimate, filed in a serpen.
tine line to the pier from the opening
of the improyised morgue at O'Clock
this morning until late tonight The
line extended for four blocks and
tens of thousands impelled by NOR
bid curiosity were turned away by
the police.
Nearly a hundred coffins lay in a
long row along the tier awaiting re
moval or Identification of the charfed
bodies contained in them,
Forty human forms so burned
blackened and distorted that they
could not be recognized lay covered
by white canvas in plain coffins,
Unless they are identified by trink
cts and jewelry found on their black
ened limbs they will fill a single
grave of unidentified persons.
A signet ring found clinging to a
shred of flesh on a little girls finger
! made Identification possible.
Found Missing Daughter.
A man who stood in line six hours
wandered aimlessly on the body o.,
his missing daughter, he. was seeking
until with groan he identified a
piece of charred clothing as thetE
garments. He collapsed and sought
( to kill himself but the police pre-
vented him and he continued in
search for his wife, also missing.
Just Became Engaged.
A pale girl bent over a misshapen
mass looked long and doubtful Then
with final effort she grasped the
hand which protruded from the car
vas and with shrek collapsed. A
blackened mass was her sweetheart
to whom she had become engage
the night before the disaster ring
on his finger told her of his identi.
.icajon. She asked If he had o
watch 1t was brought to her, she
opened it and gazed at her own fea
lures
Women Hysterical.
Twenty Sicilian women became
hysterical upon recognizing their kir
in the pine coffins. A man who's
face was marked by tongue o
flame found his brother among thu
dead. The two had worked side BY
side pouring water upon the fire.
J A cutter identified his dead sweet
heart by their engagement ring ant
, Ter purse which contained her weeks
wages of SO,
! The bodies of two sisters honribl,
mangled that pnopped up in coffli
while sobbing brother left them t.
search for his aged mother. She ais
; perished. The fire had left hin
without a relative
Pickd up by fireman on tn
eighth floor blackened hand still
J clinging pitiful p,r,se in its griT
, They pried the fingers away and re
leased the bag which contained
small sum OF money, keys and re
! ceim made out to a A. S. Binmella
A young man found his sweet
, heart burned and blackened and fei
across the coffin in a faint.
Sobbing women became so hysteli
cal that an innrDyispd hCspital wa
J fitted up on the pier and they wer
nursed by the nurses from Bellevu
hospital Hysteria ran riot an
: nurses were busy attending thos
J who collapsed.