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Show GATHERING UP DEAD IN CUT-OFF HORROR Coroner and Undertakers Leave for Scene of the Disaster More Names Added to Death Roster Explosion Blew Hole in Ground 50 Feet Deep, OGDEN, Utnn, Feb. 20, A special train bearing the Coroner and undertakers under-takers left early this morning for Jackson, Jack-son, the scene of yesterday's explosion. . . Advices today state that tho explosion of the car of dynamite tore up the track for several hundred feet, shattered sev- oral freight cars and blew a hole In the . ground about llfty feet deep. George Knchlanls, one of the Injured, died ut the hospital this afternoon. Four bodies were found today several hundred hun-dred feet from the railroad trucks whore the explosion occurred. A rumor current last evening that two more Creolm were missing has not been confirmed. Some of those who have reached hen? from the sceno believe that It is probable olner bodies may be discovered dis-covered when the wrecked caused by the oxplosion has been cleared away. Tho remains of" Mail Carrier Haller will bo shipped to Andrews, Md., tomorrow, to-morrow, accompanied by his brother-ln- law. Charles Conn. The remains of Conductor Con-ductor Dennody are in the hands of the Order of Railway Conductors, and arrangements ar-rangements u.s to their disposal have not yet been made. In all probability they will be shipped east. The condition of the Injured appears satisfactory and lt la certain that none of the Americans will die. Conductor Courtnoy appears to be seriously hurt, but mostly in the nature of severe brulfes. Tho train bearing the dead reached this city late tonight and the bodies were quickly sent to the morgue. An Inquest waa commenced and It I will be concluded Tuesday morning at , the morguo In this city. ) County Attorney Parry say3 upward. I K 444444444444444 4 4 4 IDENTIFIED DEAD: 4 Tom Burke, foreman. -f- W. J. Burke, sub-foreman. 4- Mrs. W. J. Burke and three 4 children. , 4 Sam Haller, mail messenger. Owen Dcrmody, conductor. 4 George Kachcaula. 4 Phlmas ICavalcs. 4 4 Tandales Caudalokcs. 4 4 George Zeoumbas. 4 4 George Pasonas. 4 4 Jim Arsancs. -t- 4 Peter Arsancs. , 4 4 Nick ArsancK. 4 4 Louis Multczos. 4 4 Gust Tasonas. 4 4 Kcrgcukos Kargeakcs. 4 4 Amostlos Mgupuas. 4 4 George Contosi. 4 -rT-r-r-rTT-r-r-r-T-r-r-r-r-r-r of twenty bodies lay about the ground in all conditions of mutilation, stripped of their clothing, and hero and there a hand, a foot or the pleco of a skull. The ofllclals gathered up In money from tho ground and from the corpses a total of $1923.25. Soma of this money was found hundreds of yards away and soma yns found In belts belonging to tho men, as follows: One of the belts contained $306.25, another 5132, and another $120; and a packngo was found containing $65, another $200 in the shape of a certificate cer-tificate of deposit and $C0 In gold, 1 |