Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-05-06 | Page 7 | Stories Largely Untrue

STORIES LARGELY AREY Y UNTRUE i Coroner Walsh Explodes One Ou of the Favorite Yarns of the Refugees From jErom San Francisco San S n Francisco March 5 The records re of Coroner Walsh disprove the widely circulated stories that large numbers of people were shot and killed by the soldiers during the great fire that fol followed followed lowed the earthquake Of all the cases handled by this official and an lys lis deputies deputies deputies ties in only one was it found that death was due to gunshot wounds The ex exception exception exception was Heber Tilden killed by a civic guardsman who had the mistaken idea that the automobile in which Til Tilden Tilden Tilden den was riding was being used for tor looting purposes The military authorities authorities authorities ties have records of two cases of kill killings killings killings ings for disobedience of military orders but there is not a single record of any an person being shot to death for looting My office has lias reports showing deaths said Coroner Walsh today In Inthe Inthe Inthe the time of great excitement we heard hear of many cases of shooting but the fact that we never neer got the bodies bomes convinces me that the stories were false In all an allour allour our cases with the exception men mentioned mentioned mentioned death was due to one of three causes fractured skull crushing of the body or asphyxiation