The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-11
TWENTY BODIES
 STILL BURIED IN
 ST. LOUIS DEBRIS
Ten More Recovered From M. A. c. Ruins-Death
 Total Now 30

St. Louis, March 1o.-Ten bodies had been recovered late today from the
 ruins of the seven-story building oc- cupied by the Missouri Atheltic club
 which was destroyed by fire early Mon
 day morning. Of these three were re-
 covered after the fremen entered the
 ruins today. The other seven were re-
 covered yesterday.
 | Twenty bodies are thought to be in the ruins, making the total death toll l 30. Of the 10 bodies recovered eight
 have been identified. The identified dead:
 Marshall Bier. 35. bachelor; head of Marshall Bier & Co.,, fur dealers, St. Louis.
 Lucius Ruff, 34, department head Simmons Hardware Co, bachelor; son
 of Dr. l.. P. Ruff of Cape Girardeau,
 Mo; lived with mother in Dallas, Tex. Identification doubtful.) William J. Kinser, treasurer Kinser ton of Eastside levee.
 James B. Reilly, 56, single, niemb CT
 constructing firm of Ware & Reilly, St. Louis.
 John N. RiclSey 40. Chicago, treasurer Ford Manufacturing Co.,; leaves wife and child in Chicago. William F. Erd, lawyer and real es- tate dealer, East St. Louis Ill. Edwin c. Kessler, 37, cashier Ludlow Savior Wire Co. St. Louis; killed In jumping from sixth floor. F. P. Williams bank promoter, Saul | tee, Ga.
 Firemen's Work Finished | Days probably will elapse before the
 ruins, which fill the basement up to 1 the first floor, are explored completely and it is feared many of the bodies nev- 1 CT will be recovered. Fire Chief Swing ley late today said the fire depart mems work was about finished and
 suggested that laborers from other city departments be put to work removing l the debris.
 1 The vaults of the Boatmen's bank | which occupied part of the bn.lding
 were uncovered today and found in 1 tact Nearly $1,3O0, 900 in coin and cur
 rency was removed under heavy police l guard to the vaults of the St. Louis Union Trust company where the money | will be kept until place can be pro vided in the temporary quarters of the | Boatmen's bank. No satisfactory expla- 1 nation of the fire has been found. EX- plosions heard during the fire were attributed by the chief of the fire pre- vention bureau to gas that escaped when the meters melted under the in l tense heat.
 Harry Davidson, night watchman fol I the Athletic club, was on the thire floor of the building, where the fir, was supposed to have started only l. minutes before the blaze was discov- cred He found nothing there. he said l that indicated fire danger 1 St. Louis, March 10.--Officials of the | club, after entering the ruins and re 1 covering office records tonight in creased their estimates of the dead to | 45 persons They could add no new
 names to the list of missing. however l one hundred men will begin digging out the ruins early tomorrow that the bodies of the dead may be recovered as
 quickly as possible. The city council l tonight ordered an investigation with | A view of fixing the responsibility The ! inquiry will be conducted by a com mittee empowered to subpoena wit nesses and take sworn testimony. The jinyestigation may be extended to all l hotels. clubs and theatres in the cit, l to safeguard them against similar t, calamity.
 Another death resulted indirectl, i from the fire when Mrs. Louis Vogt, 2S years old, died here today while read ling newspaper accounts of the catas tiophe. Physicians ascribed her deatl ] to heart disease superinduced by the cx
 citement occasioned by the story.