Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-24
Thirty.Five Employees of
Starch Plant known
to Be Missing.
BODIES CERTAIN
TO BE IN RUINS
At least Five Of Injured Now in Hos
pitai May Die, Making Possible Death
List Fifty. .three-Four Bodies at
Moraue Remain unidsntified-hos'
pitaI Patients Listed--Coroner's Jury
Convened.

Cedar Rapids, May si.-At o'clock
this morning the number OF KNOW"
dead as a result Of the explosion ana
fire at the Douglas starch works hau
renched thirteen, and the official list
of missing stood at thirty-hve' fhe
death list is likely to reach As. The
work of moving the debris Is being
pushed as rapidly as possible and II Is
expected that additional bodies VIII pe
uncovered during the day. There are
four unidentified dead still being heid
at the morgues.
OF the sixteen injured it is expected
ut least five Will die. The police pe-
lieye the total death list now stands AT
forty eight and may increase TO fifty-
three more Il those in the hospital die.
A careful checking of those persons
who are known to have been In ,ne
building at the time of the explosion
and who have returned to their homes
shows thirty five unaccounted for ana
the police say these men undoubtedly
would have communicated with their
families were they still alive.
Coroner King summoned his jury
this morning and it will view the ruins
during the day. The county attorney
will assist in the Investigation.
The Identified Dead.
Following Is the list of the identi-
fed
Jay Klemish.
Jake -----------.
Ed Trentissen.
v>,-ia 10l Tenth
Charles Triebel. partly Identified.
fac7 North, Sixth street west.
shorty Fifer.
/ Harvey Eckert I415 south Second
street west.
Samuel Getz. SIS South Tenth street.
Fireman CoIiapses.
Harry Hall, member of the central
station fire company. was taken to the
Mercy hospital at ? a. IN. today. He
had collapsed from shock and smoke.
This makes two firemen who are in the
hospital. The other IS G. c. Craft who
was struck by brick hurled by on
of the minor explosions that occurred
during the fire.
Among the Missing.
Among the known missing gathered
from various sources and believed to
be buried beneath the debris are:
William Lybarger. 1888 r avenue.
Eugene Jerome Baker. $50 South
Second street west.
c. j. Hahn, South Of Sixth street
west
Charles John. II Fourteenth ave-
nue..
Josef Kosina, Sr., 43 years Of age
Josef Kosina, Jr.. son: 20 years of
age. 23O Nineteenth avenue west.
Joseph yaverka, Jr.. II years of age.
1912 street west.
brother and brother-in law Of
Thomas Ramsell. shoemaker. 223
South First street, are also reported
among the missing.
In tho Hospitals.
The following are in the hospitals:
Mrs G. Shelton, 81 Ninth avenue
west not serious.
Mrs. +. H. Walker, S07 Eighteenth
avenue cast: not serious.
Alice Usher 723 II street west; not
&C. McCulley. III South Seventh
street west; not serious.
serious.
John Castalas. brother Of n missing
man.
Frank ormiston. 7ls South Second
street west.
Frank Oberer. Jr.. els South Third
street west,
Tony Stout. 219 Tenth avenue east.
w. v. Bechtel. ALI South Sixth
street east.
Drascos Manuras.
Frank Sodoma, 1904 South Second
street west; dying.
Drit Miros. AZ Sixteenth avenue
west. fs
Everett Prentlss, $40 Broadway.
;ro,-. Sur. ~: .;:5.Sc::. ,:!:c:
Dewey Alnult. l1o4 Twenty-third
street east.
Nick Fallos. Gil Third street west.
Wencil Jauil. eli Third street west.
Joseph culdice. s33 Third acenue
west.
j. s. Hull. MaSnus Hotel, president
OF the Hail Manufacturing Company.
He was standing In the lobby Of the
Hotel Magnus and was cut by flying
glass. ~
yerlee Penick 705 II street west.
G.. c.. Craft, sos l. street west
Alvin Hurst, 7ts II street west. Re-
covered; went home.
J. r,aiden. as Ninth avenue west.
Recovered and went home.
Joe Frank, Al Third avenue west;
went home.
W. owan. 5s4 H street west; went
home.
G.. T.. Cooper, Eighth avenue and
First street. severely cut about the
head; went home.
Wilson's Coming Indefinite.
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