Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
z CREMATED IN A
new YORK HOME
Bodies of Victims Are Believed
to Have Been Reduced to
Cinders.
AUSTIN HOTEL is BURNED
But All of Guests in Building in Chi.
cago Suburb Escape-Equit-
able Vaults Intact.


are believed to have been lost in the
| fire which destroyed a three story
frame building in Bronxdale avenue
this morning. Those supposed to
have perished are Thomas McDon-
ough, his wife, and five boarders,
the names of the latter unknown to
the police. The bodies were prob
ably burned to cinders.
Later it was learned five escaped
uninjured. The probability is Mrs.
McDonough and a woman friend are
the pnly ones lost.
AUSTIN HOTEL DESTROYED.
Chicago, Jan. 1.-THE Oakdale
hotel and three other buildings in
Austin, a suburb, were burned today.
The loss is $4,000. All Of the
guests of the hotel escaped.
VAULTS GIVE UP MILLIONS.
New York, Jan. 11.-More than
$50, 100000 in stocks and bonds
were recovered from one Of the
smaller vaults in the burned Equit'
, able Life Assurance society building
but it will be probably a week-per
, haps longer-before the great vault:
of the society and the Mercantile
Safe Deposit company give up theil
/ half billion or more in securities
[ Further examination of the buildin.
showed more conclusively that tn
r vaults are still intact, in the opin
/ ion of those who made the inspec
t tion-an opinion reinforced by tn
revelation today that the smalle
vaults had kept their treasure SAT
, their contents will suffer little,
! at all. But buried as they are un
, der hundreds of tons of ice and deb
! ris, it may be weeks before it Wi
be- e--advisable-te open them.
SPECIAL GUARDS EMPLOYED.
l. Meanwhile securities variously es
a timated in value from half a mi
{ lion to a billion and half dollar
a cannot be reached. Special gaurd
have been thrown around the build
ing and night and day they will kee
watch to see that no unauthoriZe
persons enter the building. TIL
2 smaller vaults of the Mercantil
i Trust company were the ones reach
! ed. AS soon as it was seen the
: could be entered so clerks were dis
r patched from the Bankers Trus
J, company, few blocks away t
: transfer the securities. Betwee
S50,0O0,000 and S70,000,000 i
! stocks and bonds were removed. Th
Bankers Trust company owns tn
, Mercantile Trust.
= Just what is the value Of the secul
. tiles still in the vaults is mere CUES
!. work. 1t is known that the Equi
able securities are close to 100000
600 and those of the Hartman e'
tate in the vaults of the Mercantil
Safe Deposit company, are undel
stood to approximate $125,O00,00'
1t is also said that Thomas F. Rya
NJ has approximately s100,000,000
securities there; the Gould estate
nearly similar sum.
AMOUNT NOT KNOWN.
\ However, the Mercantile Safe d,
d posit company refuses to give OF
a, any list of those having boxes, an
o. furthermore has no knowledge
q the amounts its clients stored ava
- So correct estimate is out of tf
= question. 1t was said at Geora
! Gould's Office that Mr.. Gould ha
felt some anxiety about the secur
ties, but had received assurance tn;
there would be no damage or los
The Mercantile Safe Deposit con
2 pany issued a statement sayin
a everything in the vaults was safe.
II NEARBY PROPERTY THREATENED
y Menace to nearby property fro
~ the shaky walls of the building VIZ
q. recognized by the fire department
9. which ordered vacated a 16 stol
"A Office building across the narro
. width of Cedar street from tt
Equitable structure.
FLAMES HIT ROYALTY.
Vienna, Austria, Jan. 11.-Fire d
stroyed a considerable portion of tt
E palace of the Arch-duke Frederick
l., this cttv last NIGHT