Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
BLAST PLOT SUSPECT CONFESSES;
n PASTOR AND THREE OTHERS JAILED

Is under Federal Jurisdiction, he said, the
ofHcials Of the plant felt that their own
guards were not able. to cope with the situ-
alton. o..
Warnings of an impending attempt To
blow up the plant and evidence furnished
by Mrs. Annie Keating, of Trenton, who
said she picked UP n note In Broad Street
station exposing plot to destroy the shell
works, are being Investigated.
Thirteen members of Troop G, State po.
lice, stationed at Pottsville. were ordered
to Eddystone for guard duty this afternoon.
GIRLS QUIT WORK
multitude of rumors from many sources
are being run down.
No date has been set for the Coroner's in
quest
Meantime plans are being made today
for the great community funeral that will
be held at Chester tomorrow for the victims
Of the disaster.
The list OF known dead was fixed tenn
porarily today at 120.
= This was done by Or w Knowles Evans
supervisor Of Public Health in Chester and
chairman OF that cty's sanitary and med
ical preparedness committee. who said that
the fatalities had been exaggerated. II was
explained that the confusion was caused by
the mnny fragments of bodies.
Doctor Knowles said there were 1I2
bodies at the morgue, but some bodies may
have been sent direct from hospitals TO
homes. The exact number he said might
never be known.
FIVE MORE INJURED DIE
Nine names were added to the death list
today. The victims died during the night
or were identified today.
There still remain forty wounded in the
Chester Hospital, thirteen in the Grocer
Hospital and two in the Taylor Hospital
OF all the deaths from the explosion only
twenty-six occurred in bosuitnlS
Ten died in the receiving ward Of the
Chester Hospital when brought in and seven
after receiving treatment. making seven
teen The CroIer Hospital had five deaths
ana the TayIor Hospital -FOUR. Most or
these pooleS were Dtousnt 10 the morgue,
put boc'or Evans Is hot sure tnat al or
them were ana that Is why ne tnlnks the
iiuniper VI uea.n ii'ay 80 "po,e ~.
oiH,y'eIsht pouies re,,,ain Gn ui'iue,l.iiieu at
the Cnester io,sue' VI ,iilS hu'iper MY
one are pur'eu peyonu nope Oh ioentiiica-
tion' ihoSe Which are not ciaiineu py
0 cioch 'nls evening VIII oe prepared Ior
puriais at the pupiic luherai.
United States District Attorney Francis
Fisher Kane said today that at this stage
him to express an opinion as to the cause
Of the disa aster Every clue. no matter how
fantastic, is being investigated. he said. and
every scrap of information is being sent to
w NaSnlnRtOn WneTe tnere Is intense interest
In the case
"Tbe Investigation may reveaI tho need
for some method of centralized authority,
such as the Federal Government or the
State Police, for the protection of NUM-
tions industries he said. Munitions
plants should be closely guarded. L do not
mean to intimate that there Is carelessness,
put TINS investigator may show that there
Is need Tor greater caution
Frank l.. Garbarino. special agent of the
Department of Justice. said today that he
had received reports from his agents at
"But there is nothing to he pivsn ont
at the present tline' ne sad.
State fre Marshal u Chal Port today
dehled 10 the EVENING LEDGER the state
lnent attributed to him that there was no
evidence or a plot.
Il did not say that there was no evidence
OF a plot" he said, I'VE are hearing all
kinds or rumors and receiving all kinds of
III ,,riorhla.ioh, we are hVes'iga,ing all thls'
W. nave NOT come 10 any oehiite coiiciu-
sioI wne,her II was oue 10 p'ot OF 70 an
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