The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-11
RECORDS OF MISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB SHOWS STILL GREATER
 LOSS OF LIFE.
TEN BODIES ARE RECOVERED
Work of Rescue Is Slow and City La. borers Will Be Called Upon to Clear Away the Ruins-Another Week May Be Required.

St. Louis, March 10-Officials of the Missouri Athletic vlub, after re covering office records from the ruins late tonight estimated that forty-five persons were lost In the fire which destroyed the building early Monday but could add no new names to the list of missing.
 Ten bodies had been recovered late today Eom the ruins of the seven story building occupied by the Mis- souri Athletic Club, which was de stroyed by fire early Monday Of these three were recovered after the fremen entered the ruins today The other seven were found yesterday.
 Twenty bodies are thought to be il the ruins, making the total death toll thirtyA Of the ten bodies recoy- cred. eight have been identified.
 The identified dead:
 Marshall Bier 35: head of Marshall Bier & Co.,, fur dealers; St. Louis.
 Lucius Ruff, 34; department head Simmons Hardware Co.; son of pr. l.. H. Ruff of Cape Girardeau, Mo; lived with mother in Dallas, Tex. Identification doubtf1.>
 William J, Kinser, treasurer Kinser Construction Co.; engaged in construe- ton of east side levee
 Io,,,o- ID D.tflnx r,arahar 0Nn. tracting firm of Ware x Reilley; St. Louis.
 John N Hickey. 40; Chicago; treas urer Ford Manufacturing Co.,; widow and child in Chicago.
 Wm F. Erd, lawyer and real estate dealer: East St. Louis, IT.,
 Edwin c. Keissler, cashier Ludlow Sayor Wire Co.,: St. Louis.
 E. P. Williams, bank promoter; Saule, Pa.
 Days probably will elapse before the debris can be removed and ex- pored and it is feared more of the bodies never will be recovered. Fire Chief Swingley today said the fire de. partments work was about finished and suggested that laborers from oth- CT city departments be put to work removing the debris
 The vaults of the Boatmen's Bank, which occupied part of the building, were uncovered today and found In tact. Nearly s1,S00,OOO in coin and currency was removed under heavy police guard to the vaults of the St. Louis Union Trust Company, where the money will be kept until a place can be provided il the temporary quarters of the bank. No satisfactory explanation of the fire has been found. Explosions heard during the fire were attributed by the chief Of the fire pre- yention bureau to gas that escaped when the meters melted.
 Harry Davidson, night watcAmaa for the club, was on the third floor of the building, where the fire was sup. posed to have started, fifteen minutes found nothing there, he said, that in. dicated fire danger.
 One hundred men will begin dig ging out the ruins early tomorrow, that the bodies of the dead may be recovered as quickly as possible. Tne city council tonight ordered an in- vestigation. with a view of fixing re- sponsibility. The inquiry, which wifi be conducted by a committee empow- cred to subpoena witnesses and take sworn testimony, may be extended 10 all hotels, clubs, and theaters in the city, to safeguard them against sim liar calamity.
 Another death resulted indirectly from the fire when Mrs. Louis Vogt, 20, died here today while reading newspaper accounts of the catastro. phe. Physicians ascribe her death to heart disease, superinduced by the ex- citemeat occasioned by the story.