Show ti CAUSE GAUSE OF OF TIRE fIRE i IS STIll l I r Overheated Boiler Theory i is fi I. I Supported by Early hiI In- In I v. v l I T 1 WORK OF IDENTIFICATION t j Twenty-Five Twenty Bodies Remain Unknown Unknown Private Private Funer- Funer lr 0 als Are Aie Planned i if fr f f r f v vf Cleveland 0 O. March G. G That G. That a 7 4 boiler overheated l through lack o or water for Ol a considerable time caused l ik the lne lo of ll es 1 school chool i dien dren an and l two vo school teachers in the ill fated l building yester- yester I J day morning iwas was DS the opinion voiced by b Fire Chief George Wallace of oC this city un iu and other Investigators toda today l Nevertheless It If death had l been n Unsatisfied un- un satisfied l with out the lives lives' of o the children as they thc lay Ja penned r and un and crushed and screaming at the closed doors of ot escape another ther theory i advanced Is that three little girls were used as Innocent agents In starting the frightful holocaust One angle of the official investigation tion Into the tragedy tragel today tola tended to toJ J show shoy that the llames Hames first appeared r. r from a closet below the tho main stair stair- way wa This closet Is said to have contained con con- of ot tamed a large laige quantity f I lime and sawdust Less LOSS than an hour lOur before the fire lire broke out a a. teacher 1 it Is said had discovered the tho three L children in this closet bl hiding away from then their class clas I crl o of At t dark ark tonight one hundred an and sixty seven bodies had hall been taken from the th ruins One hundred and orb forty tv Wo two o of these boys bo s 's and are arc badly bad I mu mu- field twenty o are arc so by names Hames by b the other tin feet et that tramped them In the a. aw aw- aw F. F ful panic that the they wJ will be 0 forever Back In the tho ruin ruins of or the school that lint had been bee l built buill tc to tot help children live JIve there may ma- Ho lie other othor tl and tortured tor lured and t bodies ao o Jammed jamm by lJJ- flames that they can can not debris of of f ri be distinguished from the the tIle awful trap Darkness the same weeping throng of fathers lathers Ul muT a moth ls l's ath j d 1 l- l lIU tZi IU tJ a aG v G alle o pours ij rp m-rp the b a wl l l forth l Tc lo tl l' l U iriS tri work woric of ot digging went on all day dBy a aIn In tn Inthe the 0 tally early ul hours It was ar warded rewarded ed bythe by bythe the recovery ry of a n. few lew ew more little ItUle victims vie vie- thus tims but as ns tho the day da o. o wore on tit th tho searchers could coull t nd only scraps of ot dresses a a. scorched flame d ribbon a baby locket a a. marble or a burn halt cd ed reader to repay lepay their ther gruesome task tash The registration lists however prove th that lt not all the lie the victims have yet been beon removed from the the r ruins They Vhey prove pro besides that the burning of the school wiped out third one of ot all aU the the school children in the village 1 1 Problem l of ut the t.- t. Burial of the dead is ts now authorities The Hm urn that confronts the tots Identified have been returned to te tot t the loss of lives hIves school chil their parent homes homes I will bo be private at beginning conducted fit fit- will be r tomorrow and teen at a u time as fast as au undertakers The and can care for them 1 town will pay par all costs All business I hn and l school work worl will win be lJ suspended ed and Its suburbs In Cleveland to testify to the grief that has and all nil school work wont is till all business s Cleveland Clev land and its suburbs suburbs sub sub- suspended ed In the grief that has to to testify nu ou Ize Six 51 C CAUSE USE OF FIRE IS V S STILL UNCERTAIN Continued from rum l' l inge jC One ODe overwhelmed the whole state But there will be no general funeral service ice loe ice merely a gi grouping gm of or f the little coffins in tho time various churches where J the children wore were wont to attend The rhe unidentified will be he laid to rest I together in imi the city's greatest I ter tery But there thero mo may not be man many of or these for it was discovered toda today that heart broken parents unable to recognize th their lr childrens children's rens ren's bodies In those that have been taken out havo ha-ci claimed other bodies among those unidentified In tho long heartrending chance that they might havo have picked th the right one to bury bUly under tom tomb tombstones stones with their names of their babies engraved upon them The men and women of Cleveland have o been visiting the afflicted all allday allday 11 day coni forting parents giving needed needed need need- ed mone money assuming charge of funerals and amid heaping tho the homes with flowers Ilo Tho The council has appropriated for Cor the relief reHer of the time suffering suf suf- fering V t Yet the is very cr much beyond bc- bc yond jond BUlc surcease a e. e The rho mothers and amid fathers Ct of the dead boys and arid girls sirls are more than stricken grief they are ale half hat frantic Turning to lo rage against th the janitor Fred finer Hiner r a hundred of them nearly mobbed him this morning though thore there Is no evidence that the fire tiro was due to his carelessness careless careless- ne ness 8 an and though oJ Jio hI mad with soi sorrow row over the loss Joss of or two of or his I own o children who perished In the I In fact only for tOl time the Incident of tl the e ethro thru three little HUle girls girs in fit the little floored closet th there re is nothing to show the tIle cause of the fire fire but but thero there is much to show for responsibility responsibility-it It may be criminal criminal after after the time flames bt began an their fatal Catal sweep Today's investigation In by Coroner Burke ha has demonstrated that at loa least t one of the doors of or tho west entrance to the school was closed and remained closed throughout the time panic Moreover It was locked and amI the lock proved Iro proof a ag against t the time assaults of ot all the rescuers S SV V Doors Op Opened Outward It is 19 rot not true as u. said that thai any army doors opened Inward but it is now I known that the wing partitions farrowe narrowed far nar row rowe rowed J the time l exit b by at least three feet Of or children pouring through that exit h In iii a hurrying mass with the time flames licking on behind not a a. third had a CI chance of or getting through alive alivo The wonder Js Is that thai ono one hundred In all the tho school got gol safely out It is shown too that only one ono tire lire escape had b been en provided provided even eyen ed-eyen even that i the children had not been taught to toI I use For this title failure the seven SUII surviving stir sur teachers have been subpoenaed I I to testify tomorrow before the tho coroners coroner's coroners coroner's coroners cor cor- oner's inquest More rore subpoenas will willbe willbe be Issued In Vin different quarters because It Is known that tho the stairway construction construction construe construe- tion thou of the tho building ma made mado o it little more than titan an aim open fire tire flue for the time up- up rushing flames Save Sae for tor the futile heroism of or the teachers and amid rescuers there Is hIttl little hardly ly a Q line line to lo mitigate the horror of the holocaust Guess who I am papa cried a n laughing voice olce in tho the ears cars of the grief grief- stricken Henry Henmy Marks this morning as two little han hands s hel held fast tho the ears can of ot Markss Marks's bowed d hea head Girl Played Hookey The taUter father turning w his Helen Helon standIng stand stand- year old laughter daughter In Ing mg behind him He lIe had been searching searching search search- ing for tor her body In tho ruins all night and all day and anti he lie ha had given sl up all hope of finding her She Site had hind played rl hookey hooko from school yesterday re tor a running running run run- I ning off oft to o visit a girl friend Now Marks Is upon the time verge of going mad from joy as great as dS the grief of Leonard Buschman No 1 Lake avenue who tin ice tried t to commil commit com coin mit mil suicide toda today with pistol and knife in tho the parlor where his wiC had hall hung the time pictures of or his lila two who ho perished In the flames Bus Bu mind Is completely gone There are soul burning Incidents Inc U by Lay bythe the time score Core In ever every house where time the lire fire brought death There is the ca case e eor of or year old old eur John Rush wh vh went down In the debris His father r and moth mother r have been separated for tor years urs He had been living with his mother Now that he Is d dead d his father hus has aken out an art upon the time little bod in the morgue so that he lie may have The he satisfaction of ot burying tho time son he was separated from fromIn In life V But most pitiful o or Of all tU perhaps was the plight o of the Fred Jfred when he its was haled before the inquisitors t ors rs today Seeking S to l lern arn rn what W Va wag the con dUon of his hla boilers tho the fire chief with Deputy State Slate Fire Marshals l Harry Har Hat 1 ry Brockman and Nathan Feigenbaum and W W. S. S Lou Lougee cc Cleveland city building Inspector questioned tho the Janitor janitor Jani jani- tor of or tho building Two of or his children perished in the th while he looked on v alt after r wrestling for fOl several minutes In Inan Inan Inan an attempt to save C them and other children lIe He broke down un and i is now nov under tho the care 0 of or physicians awaiting another examination tomorrow Just JUt before In regular examination conducted con con- ducted b by Brockman and amid ho had said ho hind had little fire under tinder hIs boilers at 30 a a. few minutes before before before be be- fore the lire and amid had hind explained that only non mablo lime was In tho the closet un under cl the stairs where the time fire fIro seemed to have started Boilers lIed Hell 3 rot lot A star story told tho the b turned by hy year old Anna the time to a Q new theory She said she saw a a. man frantically working at fit atthe the time steam valves val of oC tho the boilers when whon she site started d into tho time basement Already Al Al- Ipa ready spirals of were coming through the time stairway steps stops She said lh the boilers were ivere red hot She would not say the tho man nian was but said raid hc the ran ran then camo came back and called to Hirter whom she saw raw In opening the tho grate grato of at the boiler Fire Chief Wallace Insists that the lire Ure started Just above the tho boilers In thi ceiling and that lint overheated o boil boil- r rr due duc to lack Inck of or water might have been the tho cause of the tho destruction of or orthe the timbers just above the boilers beng be- be ng advanced as supporting his theory The theory theon that an overheated boil- boil Vr r r may have been tho the cause use of ot the lire the janitor stoutly denied though he ime could har hardly ly speak from Cram grief over his own loss But were you not working at a aIe ai i Ie hot red hot boiler as little Anna Neubert says rays just before the firo started I was not the tho fires nearly out Good Go God Do you OU think I could be careless with my own own little girls upstairs 1 It Is believed that has gone insane But Bul he lie will be questioned again when the state authorities from fromn Cleveland begin tho the Inquisition that was OI ordered elc to today a b by the time Ohio legis lesis- lature baturo L Legislature i The Time le legislature In Columbus started ted n fl speedy passage a 0 bill appropriating ing lug for Cor the relief of ot woo wood v while In Cleveland several thousand thousand thou thou- I sand and dollars ollars was contributed to news news- I taper aper funds The village expects to be called on onto onto to 0 pay at least leest for tho the burial of or the dead ca V I r found toun two grades es of ot homes gal said Al Alderman erman Plowman tonight after making a canvass camass of the Some were able to care for or their dead m and others we wo must help bur bury their victims vic vie Ii tims ms I found that all of or them thera were rather Inclined to blame some som one tot for the fire hire Some Sonic are cursing the school board for Cor not providing a fireproof fireproof fire lire proof building Some blame the janitor Jan jani tar tor for neglect of duty A few arc are blaming t the e teachers for tor saving themselves them them- selves es and not saving the tho children As s a a. who whole o tho time people havo have reached reach reach- cd ed the tho jor their grief where they are ure calm They rhoy They are arc nrc 1 bordering upon ulOn reconciliation to their losses g. g Deut Deputy State Fire File Marshal 1 1 man inan and Marshal C car carto to at 10 1030 20 o'clock this They went l t t t. the there hero they the rn ma Kl a u minute minute examination Ordered Doors Chan Changed ld Jos Joseph h Jones a a. member of th local oal board of health said the board had ordered tho the school authorities to nave the school chool doors open out This Thia he lii asserted was done The fire marshals examined Anna Neubert the he child who first saw the t smoke mol e She was f lightened frightened at olt first bu but t Marshal Bro Brockman l man qu questioned her gently gentl and nd after aftel a time got ot tree freo responses Two To of or the cubert hUdren children chil hU dren were killed In the time fire tIre City Dull Building Inspector Louge LouSt and amid Fire Firo Chief ChIc Wallace of the time Cleveland 1 lire department examined the boilers carefully and sal said that the Ore lire could not have started b by an explosion The They measured the fateful west door an and found round that It was ten feet eight inches incites from from wall to wall willI The door proper occupied only four foul feet teet sly six Inches of oC this space the remainder being used for tor shoulders to lo bear heal the swinging doors door Tho The examiners said that this blind corner pro probably abl was r responsible for lor many of or the time deaths death as the wa way of escape was partially blocked b by ItI ItI HJ It H. I J think the fire lire started In time the central contral cen- cen room where the boilers are arc said Chief Wallace Vallace If you will notice tho ho beams In imi the time walls are aie charred off arC not torn out as In other parts of ot time the building |