The Prescott daily news., 1911-03-28

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 New York, Mar 2S.-Search of the Asch building, at 23-29 Washington place. and correction of the lists at the morgue fixes at IA the number of those who lost their lives in the fire which swept the factory of the Trian- gle Waist company Included in this total is a skull whose torso has not been found, and two bodies reported by the police to be in the flooded sub cellar of the building. Fifty bodies at the morgue have not been identified There were 16 men killed and 12S women. Twelve injured are in hos pitfalls.
 Cause May Never Be Known.
 Investigation by the authorities has brought the conclusion that the fire was caused by the ignition if not the explosion, of gasoline used in heating pressing irons in the finishing room on the eighth floor. Fire Chief Croker believes aat the spark which fired this gasolir ame from a cigarette which burned long after it had been careless ly flung away.
 District Attorney Whitman said that he intended to have the grand jury make a sweeping investigation. which will be entirely independent of that of the coroner The provisions of the flaw demanding standpipes, three sep arate stairways, sprinklers, automatic fire alarms, etc. have not been com piled with in more than third of the buildings in the city.
 The single inside" fire escape in the building has been photographed for use in the grand jury investiga- tion It is so narrow that only one person could descend at time and is of the kind characterized by the fire men as utterly useless.
 One Funeral for Many.
 The various charitable organizations and civic bodoes have started to care for the destitute dependents of the vic tins and to bury the dead Mayor Gaynor headed a subscription list to be distributed through the Red Cross nf hn otif society. The various newspapers also prepared to raise funds. while the La dies Waist and Dressmakers' union prepared to bury the unidentified dead
 A large lot has been secured in the plot of the Workman's Circle. a Jew lsh sick and death benefit society in Mount Sinai to bury those unidentified and others whose friends are unable to pay the undertaken
 The union has ordered that all mem- bers refrain from working Tuesday. when it is planned to hold most of the funeral, and to participate in a mon- ster funeral procession. Other labor organizations are ordered to join, and the whole is to be made united pro- test agaist the lax laws which made the horror possible.
 53 Are Still Unidentified
 Of the 142 bodies that had been taken to the mOrgue all but s have been identified. Ever since the fire the old covered charities have been besieged by persons whose loved ones were missing, but most of the remain Ing bodies are so terribly charred that Identification seems impossible.
 At the Mercer Street police station the police have half a hundred wom- en's hats and furs, as well as other articles of wearing apparel and valua- bles, arrange 1 around the floor of the reserve squad room. These belonged to the dead, and were being held for relatives to identify. There are also In the captains safe. a number of pay envelopes and pieces of jewelry picked up in the stret after the victims Jumped
 There were 12 injured victims still in St. Vincent, the New York and Bellevue hospitals today. Of these 1t was said five are so seriously hurt that they can not recover.