The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-11
TEN BODIES HAVE
Been RECOVERED
FROM RUINS fire
Twenty Bodies Said to Be in Burned
Bullding-0fficial Records
Are Recovered.
EIGHT BODIES OUT TEN
HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED
100 Men Put to Work Digging Gut
Rnins-Investigation to Safe
guard Others.
St. Louis, March 10.-Ten bodies

st. Louis, March lO.-Ten bodies
have been recovered up to late this
afternoon from the ruins of the
seven story building occupied by tie
Missouri Athletic club which wa;
destroyed by fire early MONDAY
morning. Of these, three were re-
covered after the fremen entered
the ruins today, the other seven
were recovered yesterday. Twentr
bodies are said to be in the ruins,
making a total of 80.
Officials of the club after entering
the ruins and recovering the Official
records tonight, increased the esti-
mate of the dead to as persons. They
could add no more names to the list
however.
Mayor Kiel ordered the building
comm;fioners to hire 100 men to
clear away the wreckage that the
bodies of the dead might be recov-
cred as soon as possible. The men
will begin digging out the ruins
early tomorrow under the direction
of bridge carpenters,
The city council tonight ordered
a full Investigation of the fire with
view OF fixing the responsibility
The inquiry WA be conducted by 4
joint commission from both houses,
with power to subpoena witnesses
and take sworn testimony. The III
vestigation may be extended to all
hotels, fats and theatres in The city
to safeguard them against a similar
catastrophe.
OF tho ten bodies recovered, eight
have boen identified Marshall Dyer
35 years old, bachelor; Lucius
Ruff, 35, department head of the
Simmons Hardware Co., bachelor,
son of DR.. l.. T. Ruff of Cape Girdr-
deau, do.; William J. Kinser, treas
urer of the Kinser Construction Co
engaged in the construction of the
cast side levee; James b. Riley, 30.
single, member of the construction
company of Ware & Riley OF ST.
Louis; John Hickey of Chicago,
treasurer of the Ford Manufacture
ing Co, of St Paul, he had a VIE
and children in Chicago; William
Erd, lawyer and real estate dealer
of st. Louis; Edward Keemler, 81
cashier of Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co.
st. Louis; L. Williams, bank prcsi
dent at Sautt, Ga.
ST. Louis, March t0-ln the hope
however slight, that among the thir
ty or forty persons missing in the
ruins Of the burned Missouri Ath-
letie club some may yet be aliyo uH-
der the debris, scores of volunteers
arc aiding the entire fire depart
ment and detail of police in ar
all-night search Of the ruins.
1t is believed that not fewer than
thirty men died in the fire, and tie
number may reach forty. The nun.
Der may never be positively know
Up to a late hour none has been
found alive, but there was revealed
tragedy which Mortified the rcs-
cuer5. One man---it will probably
never be known who he was-waS
trapped when the upper floors drop-
ped on the lower. lie was impris-
oncd between the floors, unhurt SO
far as could be determined, but vita
all escape cut off, and the flames adj
vancing on him. He had not even
the choice many of the victims had
of dying in leap from an upper
window.
Thwarts Flames by Death.
So, when the flames came so nea,
that he saw death was sure, he fired
bullet into his brain and died Il
quick and merciful death. His body
was found, charred beyond all pos
sibility of identification, with a bull
let hole just above the ear.
Four great electric searchlights
have been set up about the ruins,
and furnish light for the searchers.
The entire fire department. is on
duty, with brief intervals of rest.
Fifty policemen worked until they
are worn out, when they are re-
placed by fifty others. Citizen vol
unteers by the score are at work ali
the time with the hluecoats.