The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-24
MANAGER OF CIRCUS ESTIMATES NUMBER
 0EsftAD Al 85
.SSo Bodies Recovered
 >y om Wreck of Hagen ! eck-W allace Train and Many Still Missing

Gary. Ind. June 23-sixty bodies of Hagenback-Waliace circus employees who were killed in the wreck shx miles west of here on the Michigan Central < railroad early Saturday lay in tenn porary morgues here and at Hammond tonight, while circus officers made frantic efforts to compile an accurate list of dead and injured. Only 2a of the bodies had been identified. Most of the others were charred and mansled beyond recognition.
 Edward M. Ballard. general mana ger of the circus tonight issued a statement saying figures co piled in- dicated probably s5 persons had been killed He said a hasty tabulation of scattered employees showed 60 missing in addition to the 24 identified dead. Most of the missing were said to be razor backs many of them negroes F. $. Whipple, railroad trainmaster. also has been given up as dead
 Parts of two bodies cremated in the furnace of tangled steel and timbers, was all that was left or the circus train, were dug out tonight. The authorities said if the death list is as great as estimated by circus men, the additional bodies prob ably We're reduced to ashes.
 An inquest will be held at Hammond tomorrow, and Gustave Klauss, fire man of the troop train of empty Pull mans, has been brought to Hammond to testify
 I've will have the engineer, Alonzo K. Sargent, present when we are ready for him." was all Deputy Coroner Greene of Lake county would say Sargent is being held in Kalamazoos Neither man was injured.
 New York and Chicago theatrical men and officers of the Showmen' s league sent representatives here today to offer assistance to the injured and relatives of the dead. Plans were dis cussed providing for the purchase of a lot in which all unidentified victims would be buried under a single monu- ment.
 None of the s25.ooo in cash reported by circus officers as being lost in the wreckage was recovered
 LIST OF KNOWN DEAD
 The revised list of known dead follows: James Connor, baggage superintendent of horses, Bliss Okla; Mrs verna Con- nor, wild west rider, Bliss, Okla: Ar thur Diericks, Joseph Diericks and Max Freehand, all membrs of tn "Thre Strong Swiss Erickton, Md; Big Red Bar rum, arivor; Jeuale ward. s.e. oasst. Bio .ta- ington, Ill; Eddie Devoe clown, New York; Mona McDhy, equestrienne Mich igan; Victoria McDhy, equestrienne. Michigan; Virgil Barnett, rider, Bliss, Okla; Nellie Jewell, animal trainer, tiger-horseback act, Washington, D. e.; Louise Cottrell, equestrienne, London; Mrs. Joseph Coyle. Cincinnati: Joseph Coyle, Jr., Il. Cincinnati; Charles Coyle, j. Cincinnati, .s., sst.An
 Chicago; Mrs. Bessie Cattanacs, aerolist, Chicago; Mrs. George Brown, eques- trienne, Denver; LeRoy Jessup, usher, Toledo, O.. Henry Miller animal trainer. New York: Charles Rooney, bareback rider, Chicago; Earl Michael Berry, Schenecta V. .>. r.. Henry hanson, est Baden, Ind.
 An attemp' to remove Fireman Gus tave Klauss from Michigan City to Ha.n- mond tonight met with failure. Acting s.ors ner sieen sent depagy summon Klauss, but the man returned to report that E<lauss had gone to Kalamazoo, where Engineer Sargent is awaiting summons t., the inquest set for tomor- row.
 It is expected that by tomorrow circus officials will oe able ,o f,.eal 2. thentic list of the missing. The tims sheets, il was salef ay aV Beloit, Wis. where the show had been booked to play Tuesday
 GRUESOME TASK
 The list of injured in hospitals tonight was reduced to 5S here and 20 in Ham, mond Only three or four of these are expected to die. The gruesome task of trying to identify charred corpses con tinued throughout the day with the influx of relatives Of victims. Little progress was made pitifui scenes were enacted as women and men passed between rows of bodies retaining such Identification marks as bracelets, lavaliers and signet rings. Circus folks, swathed in band ages and many on crutches. hunted the morgme in search of relatives and many collarsed when the bodies they sought 1vere fnund