Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-29
|e Than 100 Others Sui (ering from Serious 1 Injuries.
RATIFICATION OF ! BODIES DIFFICULT
Itieation Develops that Explosion Gasoline Was Followed by Blast Dynamite, Stored in Santa Fe Freight House.

ldmOre, Okla., Sept. Zo.-l Ae lis'
 nown dead as the result of yes
 Ay,s gasoline and ensuing dyna-
 explosion had reached A to-
 while the number of those in
 exceeds 100. Estimates of the
 erty damage from the explosions
 fires vary from s500,000 to $73O,-
 'ElE
 Identified White Dead.
 bmparatively few of the victims
 as yet been identified.
 he identified white dead are:
 E. Adkins, a drayman.
 Iss - Robinson.
 ilton Taylor, drayman.
 a Wood, car inspector.
 A. Gould, poultry man.
 enry Simms, flagman.
 horty" Twyford, restaurant cook. I'm stallcup, 15 years old.
 J. Stallcup, merchant.
 J. Cox, fireman.
 harles Smith, ex-policeman.
 harles Barlow, clerk.
 euben Warren, chauffeur.
 here is danger of walls of build
 gutted and damaged by fire,
 ing. Police have roped off these gerous places and stopped, traffic he district.
 | the number of dead, '21 are ne es, one Indian and one Mexican.
 Cause Not Known. &ifferent causes have been assign flor the igniting of the gasoline K car. Railroad men, including tchmen who were in the yard al
 time. say that the tank car was tnted to siding on account of its Ing in "bad order" The car was King gasoline to such an extent t pool of the liquid had formed &the ground under the car. When tchmen refused to move the cal ther an inspector was called. Ira Woods, aged about 40 years car inspector, according to the |ry of those who saw him, mount the car, unscrewed the cap anG bred in. Just as he did this the foline became ignited and Woods car and every loose piece of ma: (ial within 100 yards was hurled Tough the air. Six hours later ; lngled and mutilated. body wal Rnd more than 100 feet from thu ene. It was beyond identity excep ht one finger carried a ring ol lich Woods initials were engraved Concussion Explodes Dynamite. First reports that there were tw, plcsions were confirmed early to y. A quantity of dynamite in thu eight storehouse was set off by tn ncussion of the gasoline explosion lis second explosion came within cond after the first. The greates mage in the city was done from tn rth shock of the explosion. Tn es were considerably overestimat . and while the fire loss was great will not reach the amount done b a earth's vibrations.
 The greater part Of the city was i rkness last night the electric light wing been cut off when the wire ere tangled in bricks and timber rown into the streets by the explc on. It will be many dave before tn reckage is cleared sufficiently t rmlt the city to resume its norma e.
 Warming Comes too Late, There were IS girls at work 1 wits cigar factory when the e, oslon of yesterday wrecked tn Hiding. The proprietor saw the d. ctivss tank car and it's contents dri, ns to the ground. Dewitt rushed from his office to tr lnta Fe to infor mthem of the a, 'oaching danger. T. F. Burto ewi't's bookkeeper, followed the la r out of the building. NAM Just as Burton stepped out of u 'or. he saw what he described aa rect of flame the entire ee width i, e street. and apparently ,runnir ong the ground where the gasolil Id leaked. . Immediately there was a loud mn Cd report, he said. Y After an intermission of possib Ve seconds there was another r ort twice the volume. which was a with preat o,nrs neke. fsS Then buildings began to tumble