Show floi fk ca j IAK jt W 11 U C number of missing m albany building dasas ter mas been greatly reduced wreckage being searched for the COUNTING THE MISSING albany N Y august 9 A thorough search carried on since early morning haa revealed the tact that all the mm and all but one woman employed in the department store of jphn G mayers company which yesterday are accounted for about 30 cash boys out of 75 have not yet reported but it Is thought scarcely possible that many of them are in the ruins as the proportion of the boys thus known to be killed and injured is small these facts lead to the belief hat the number of deaths will prove considerably less than was feared the dead thus far number IS and there Is hope that not more than halt a dozen bodies are still in the wreck albany N Y aug 9 this morning found men still tolling over the wreckage of the john G meyers company department store chero twenty tour hours ago occurred the saddest catastrophe in the history of albany eleven dead bodies many 0 them mangled beyond description have been taken from the ruins thus far and one woman died after being carried to the hospital ano known dead list which last night numbered only five has been more than doubled by the addition 0 the following all employed emp loyes mary mcaver died at hospital anna cashman theresa spann bauer etta grace B erner helen malone joan E powers cash boy in addition to these it is almost certain that 15 or 20 bodies still re maln in the twisted mass of beams wires plaster brick and lath that was once the main part of one of albanys largest stores the efforts of the wrecking crews of the new york central and delaware hudson roads has resulted in rals ing barely half the debris shortly after daybreak the search ere found the twelfth body it was helen malone a young girl who shared the cashiers gallery on the main floor with anna min and alice sharp and waa crushed beneath the same girders that killed her three companions toe injured in the hospitals are doing well with two exceptions miss ella one of the first survivors to be taken out of the wreck has her fractured and cannot live mrs borst of glnn who was one of the shoppers injured Is res ported to bo in a critical she bad been visiting mrs Jl ichard W idras wife of a well known ney the two women were out on an early morning shopping tour mrs braes was also injured hut after heing in the wreck several hours waa removed without serious wounds the only addition to the list ot injured is thomas rogers a fireman who was painfully though not seriously and cut while at the work of rescue it is thought scarcely possible that any of those now in the k debris can be alive since midnight only disfigured corpses have been taken feuy fifty women employed emp loyes are fitl 11 unaccounted for and one of the firm has a complete list of those grave fears are expressed for the tafe ay of the majority A large percentage of in the central portion of the building which collapsed were women the number of men unaccounted tor is about the same but the los of the firms books makes anything like a complete record of the male employed emp loyes impossible it is thought that balne tenths of the bodies remaining in the alna are thoe of women kow that the elret shock of the horror passed the people of albany have begun to ask vho aho is responsible mayor gaus chief higgins of the alre department and commissioner cantine of the department of public abety believe that the accident was caused by workmen excavating beneath the basement of the floor who one of the key brick piers in alis center of the building and their belief is generally shared mayor gaus eadd today ayery guilty will he prose cutel as soon as we have placed the re sp for this disaster which Is the worst of its kind that has ever befallen the city an investigation be begun as soon as the work of rescue is over tha work under way when the building ol lapsed was in charge of contractor john dyer jr 01 the 31 men employed by him on the building ev cry one escaped in view of the fact 51 that nearly all of them were in or under the basement in the very center 0 the structure their escape Is almont miraculous shortly after 10 the thir meent te ent body was found and identified as thit th it of miss winifred kelly by her father who bad watched by the wreck leht CLUB BANNERS newyork New York aug first political banners to be displayed in the interest of william travers jerome as ATTEMPT TO SWIM CHANNEL dover august 9 T W burgess started this morning from the coat guard station at bydden lydden four mites northwest of this port in another attempt to swim across the channel after being six hours in the water he was about twelve mile out and vas going strong an independent candidate tor re elac ion as district attorney were suspend ed yesterday at forsyth and grand streets by a recently formed ion whose members are pledged to support mr heroine at tho polls |