The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-02-08
Further Particulars OF the Terrible Explosion New
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The New York correspondent OF the Philadelphia Led
ger gives the following latest intelligence from the ruins
az Taylors establishment. 5000 &fs E.e aA


The New York correspondent OF the Philadelphia Led
ger gives the following latest intelligence from the ruins
of Taylor's establishment: ~
n hS a not s sooysred the
the vicinity the disaster SINCE
a. e
posted is of the sou-harrowing description Here
with send the latest pc rticulars could PROCURE to
The investigation ofthe supposed which led
explosion has been postponed until Friday, as IL was
thought best TO await the entire removal and thorough
animation of the ruins, III sse - III
Two bodies only havebeen dug out to-day one was that
dence 81 Third The other horribly mutt
lated that it was impossible TO identify IT, Inquess were
held this forenoon on the above and also upon the bodies
Edgar r Head, aged ~ Joseph Hanford aged ~; and
public meeting Is to be held. to adopt .immediate
for the relief of the and those who
rved Of the means OF susenance by the terrible bereaye
ment. eafM4a +si4#
Private spb:cTptions are beginning TO pour in Messs
$780, and promise more The post Office clerks have con-
tributed the handsome sum Of $500
bury ali Or any bodies Of the victims their grounds
The work Of excavation still goes vigorously on I, i.
thought that including those escaped with and without
wounds nearly seventy be accounted for IL is
orally thought that from ninety 70 one hundred were in the
building at the time OF the explosion, and many still
missing who would have been heard from had they been
The scene the station house, have said is ofthe
horribly dasad boe, we're lying !" one ms
empty house adjoining.
Some have had life al once cru she'd out their heads being
now shaPeess mass; others seem to have endured In
tense agony before their spirits departed.
Only few could be recognised by their backened and
dsfgurcd features but generally the their gar
ments were all that enabled their anxious and weeping
friends TO know them,
One poor woman, 1 am told has lost father husband
and three beneath the ruins The silent yet hopeless
sorrow OF this sad daughsr, wife, and mother, who, by
the sudden and terrible catastrophe had thus cruelty
bereayed of nearly every earthly relatives excited unve
sal commisseration. tastzf II ssfH0a sHtt-N Aa# Ia
The following believed be correct list Of those
still missing IL Is under the circumstances possible to
obtaini f.saH&af
George Ford, J. s. Crssy Samuel f. Crssy, M N. kel-
ton, Alexander Huggins Larry Crssy Robert Ross John
Glmartn, Thomas McKeever, 8. G. Osborne Marshal
yought. VIM. Delander, Clark vought, james Powers,
James Gudey, Richard Burhirsse Oliver Brown David
Borand, George Whiting 8. scofe!d lanes Randall, Lu.
Their Thompson, William Phillips, Robert Knowlton, Geo
Knowles, Hasey King, G. F. Worrell, r. Anable, l.. b.
Whitney Richard Egber, William Boudne, M. McLaugh-
lin, W. Barclay, Lambert Thomas Farrell W Collins,
(boy) . Collins. tboyl w. Thompson, sboyl John Ward,
Thurston, (boy,) - visory, J. Royins. 49, Townsend,
tboy) - Brady, tboyl John Butsey, tboy) j. Heustis,
Andrew Norris, (boy,) Franklin Norris, (boy,) Bars
ley, tboy,> Luke Johnson, tcoIored) ~ ,ssFr, rs