Show hiir 1 B one hundred and sixty two bodies in the morgues awaiting identification forty teams remain uncalled for at the stables in boyertown Boyer town and the owners are thought to have perished foolish act caused the catastrophe boyertown Boyer town pa jaa 15 yuh opening of the four Improvise il morgues today in which laythe victims of monday nights theater horror tho inhabitants of this borough began to realize the awful e of the tragedy the hand of sorrow has touched practically every family of tho town aej in many neighboring villages where families were not directly affected by the terrible panic and are or through the loss of lives they bep mourning for lost friends or acquaintances the gruesome scenes following the disaster bring a shudder to the stoutest heart and mandof the thousands who havo coia as curiosity seekers have gone away declaring they never want ta witness another sight like it the four buildings used as morgues contain bodies the three undertaking establishments of the town were too small to accommodate the victims so the borough officials decided to use the high school undertakers from surrounding towns were pressed into service to care tor the bodies to each body was attached a tag containing a number and ith the corpse was laid articles of jewelry or clothing that might have been inuos session of the victim j most of the bodies wore in such condition that few of them will be recognized by their features alone in nearly every case the upper portions of the bodies were burped some of them to a crisp because 0 the difficulty of identification and toe attendant confusion the coroner da to keep the morgues closed un til today and during the looming tho doors of the building were thrown open hundreds of people were waiting at each place to get a look atthe at the bodies in the hope of finding th remains ot loved ones perfect order was maintained at each of tho morgues a squad of police belag on duty to keep the crowds moving jacob johnson who was badly hurt in the mad rush for exit from the burning building died thit morning coroner strasser Is making an investigation vesti gation preliminary to the official inquiry it was the saddest picture 1 ver looked upon ho said no living soul can depict the scene it waa simply indescribable s 1 I shall make a thorough investigation leading up to what I 1 consider the most horrible affair that ever occue od in eastern pennsylvania the coroners attention was called to the fact that oil lamps wera wed for footlights in the opera house instead of a stationary illumination ho said he would make inquiry henry W fischer of carlisle ehte operator of the calcium lightb was the original cause of the terrible dla aster and made his escape from the burning building though not without first receiving severe burns mr fischer said the accident was caused by acab on one of the tanks blowing put this caused a sharp report and startled the people I 1 stuck to my apparatus and finally got tho leak repaired just ats I 1 had the people calmed abo ool ish act of some thoroughly caused the over person on the stage setting of an oil lamp and the copse quent serend of the flames which nothing could avert not until then did I 1 desert my post and seek my own safety in flighty that the victims were not confined to residents of was shown by the number of unclaimed teams at the hotels fully forty teams remained uncalled for in the stables yesterday and the hoste lerias aadu they belonged to people residing within a radius of five or six milos of boyer towa who drove to this place ou monday with their families to witness the production of the reformation there is no duo botho identity of the owners of A number 01 the teams |