Arizona republican., 1911-03-27
THE GUILTY
 MUST SUFFER Prosecutions Will Follow
 New York Disaster THE DEAD ARE NOW All
The Living, Yet Dying, Will Bring the Total Death List to 150-Mass Meet ing To Take Action to Prevent Repetition.


 go down in history as a most hor-
 rible fire disaster in Washington
 Square entered upon its aftermath
 tonight with eighty-two of nearly 150 victims identified.
 The revised count shows If dead tonight with twelve women and girls at deaths door in hospitals. One hundred and fifty all told will per haps conservatively cover the casual ties when those whose horrible hurts and burns are fatal, shall have joined their fellow workers in the pine cof- fins at the morgue.
 Careful counting rates the female victims, young and old at approx imately twelve to every one male. Broadly speaking the victims were Jewish or Italian.
 With all the dead removed from the building, the coroner began an investigation into the disaster An inquest will be held and its results will be placed before the grand jury Many grand jurymen visited the scene and District Attorney Whitman announced that those responsible for the loss of life will be vigorously prosecuted.
 On Thursday night mass meeting will be held at Cooper Union to agi- tate for the more adequate prOtec- ton of so-called fire proof buildings. The United Hebrew Charities and the Hebrew Free Burial societies an- nounced tonight that they would re- lieve any distress caused by the fire.
 While the crowd of morbid thousands were held back by the police, fire men all morning w4th graphing irons and fire hooks sought the victims in the flooded cellar of the building. A steam pump emptied the basement of water during the morning and the fire men believed when they rested at the dinner hour that they would find no more dead. Tonight, however. they carried out another body, making three recovered during the day.
 The work of today shed no light up on the cause of the blaze. Probably it will never be known. A spark from a motor driving the sewing machines shooting through the unchanged air of the operating room to the finch carpet of scraps on the floor could easi ly have started the fire, but Chief CrOker was unwilling to say tonight that in his opinion it originated in this way
 Two hundred thousand, the police estimate. filed in a serpentine line to the pier from the opening Of an inn provised morgue at l o'clock this morning until late tonight At times the lines extended four blocks away | Tens of thousands of those, impelled by | morbid curiosity, were turned away.
 Nearly all of a hundred collins lay in a long row upon the pier awaiting re- moval or identification of the charred | bodies they contained
 Forty human forms so burned, black | ened and distorted that they cannot be | recognized. lay covered by white can vas in plain pine collins apart from | those less horribly mangled. Unless identified by trinkets or jeweIry found | on their blackened limbs, they will fill | a single grave of unknown dead. i
 A signet ring, found clinging to a i shred of flesh on a little girls finger made identification possible where all other means had failed A man who had stood in the line for six hours. aimlessly among the bodies. seeking his missing daughters until with a groan he identified the heap of charred clothing as her garments. He collapsed and sought to kill himself, but the police prevented him and he continued his search for his wife, who IS also missing.
 A pale girl bent over mis-shapen mass. long doubting, and then with a final effort she grasped a hand which protruded from beneath the canvas. With a shriek she collapsed. The black ened mass, she sobbed, was her sweet heart to whom she had become en- gagged the night before the disaster A ring on a finger told his identity. She asked if the dead man had watch They brought it to her and she opened t and gaZed at her own portrait Twen- ty Sicilian women became hysterical upon recognizing their kin in pine cof- fins
 A man whose face was marked by a scar of flame found his brother imong the dead. The two had worked side by side pouring water upon the fire. A cutter identified his dead by an engagement ring and ler purse. It contained her weeks wages, $s. The bodies of two sisters. horribly mangled, sat proped up inl ,offins. while a sobbing brother left hem to search for his aged mother. who also had perished. The fire had , eft him without a relative. fl Sobbing women became so hystericali (