New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-24
with whom he lived, and other relatives to mourn

| fuWEFQ tioyei keffoneously included IN our list
Of the dead on Saturday. not very seriously hurt
His prolonged swoon led to the supposftfon that he
| was dead.
| Mr.. Keher, instructor of the Louisiana Foot
Rifles, badly hurt VIM. Lilienthal and Vim. Clark
both but slightly hurt.
| The young man Fitzgerald, who was SO long held
fast between the beams, by one of his legs only
that leg hurt How he lived 80 long beneath the
ruins, with fire. smoke, and water by turns afiict-
| ing him, seems wonderful. The persons who final
" rescued him from his perilous and suffering stu
alton were Capt. James Gormley and Mr.. Richard
Robertson, captain and clerk of the steamer Jesse
| K. Bell; noble act for them, when SO many had
exerted themselves in vain.
| Numerous other persons were more or less hurt,
but none of them dangerously. Many persons
escaped nliraeulously, as il were, from the very
jaws of death; for the street around was full of
people when the building so suddenly exploded
and fell.
THE coRoNER's INQUEST. ....
| Coroner Beach on Saturday empanneled jury,
composed Of the following gentlemen: R. l.. Bruce,
Alfred Lipscomb J. r. Dixon, Aaron Harris and
Simon Nathan. They viewed the different dead
| bodies at the lookup, and the Coroner furnished
certificates of burial but no verdict was rendered
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the architecture Of the building whose fall killed
and wounded so many. It seems to be the public
opinion that the building was mere shell, not at
all fit for a warehouse in the heavy business part
of the city; and the great number Of unburnt and
unbroken oists amidst the ruins, we think, justles
this opinion. Defective architecture was unques-
tionably the cause Of the disaster.
THE FUNERALS YEsTERDA1-A DAY OF MOURNING.
Yesterday was bright and delicious day; but
the usual gaiety Of the Sunday popuace was not
half as visible usual. The funerals were too
numerous, and some of them absorbed too large a
portion of the population for gaiety to hold its
usual sway.
The body of Arthur Cornu was followed to the
tomb by one of the largest and most imposing
funeral corteges we ever witnessed. He was
member Of the Washington Artillery as well as
| of Pelican Hook and Ladder Fire Company No. 4.
Both these companies turned out in full force, as
well as large nombers of the other fremen; and
as for those citizens who followed the military and
fire companies, their number was almost intermin-
able including the greater part of the male creole
population down town. The body, elegantly cof-
fined, was taken from the family residence on Hos
pital street. A hearse followed the solemn band
of music, and the Artillery Company, with their
muskets reversed but the coffin was not in the
hearse. 1t was on the truck of the Hook and Lad
der Company, covered by rich white drapery and
the military equipments of the deceased. The
body was taken to the Mortuary Chapel on Ram
part street, and thence to the st. Louis Cemetery,
where it was inferred with the last and most solemn
honors.
The same Hook and Ladder Company afterward
took the lead in paying mortaary honors to the
remains of young Alfred DeLalondre. This was
also large funeral, the body being laid out at the
truck-house.
American Hook and Ladder Company No. had
three deceased members to bury. Walter S. Clay
ton was buried first from his residence, corner of
Magazine and Orange streets. His relatives taking
the lead, his feow-fremen followed in citizens
dress, with badges. The funeral procession was
large and the ceremonies solemn. The body was
laid to rest in the Girod street cemetery.
Theodore J. Bartelson, Second Assistant Fore
man Of the same Hook and Ladder Company, Che
Who found mangled and roasted, still held in his
hand the axe with which he vas at work when
killed,) was next buried. His was a very great
funeral; the body being laid ont in state at the
truck.house, and followed by his own and several
ether fire companies in full, with members Of many
other companies and a large concourse in citizens
dress. The body was deposited in the vacated
Mcleod Monument, in the Fremen's or Cypress
f Grove Cemetery at Metairic Ridge.
The funeral Of Alexander B. Strawbridge, of the
same Hook and Ladder Company, took place in
the afternoon from the residence of his mother, on
Clio street. His relatives taking precedence, his
brother-iremen appeared in citizens dress, with
badges whilst the Masonic Order, of which he was
an honored member, turned out in greater force
than we ever before saw at funeral in this city
not to mention the great numbers who were neither
6remen nor Masons. 1t was one ofthe very larg-
est and most solemn funeral pageants of the day.
The body was placed in the family vault, in the
i Girod street cemetery.
Young Cassidy, young Clarke, young Wingate
and young Roy, were also followed from thei1
different residences to the grave by large con
courses of grief-stricken relatives and sorrowire
friends The remainder of the dead, whose names
, appear in the list elsewhere, were buried by then
friends-al except one, the unclaimed body, sup
posed to be that of John Cahill As this man hat
+ no friends to claim him. and he was one Q
q those employed in rolling out flour when tht
building fell, he was given decent burial by ths
Board of Underwriters, as will be seen by the fol
a lowing card from the Goroner
t CoRoNER's OFFICR, Sunday, Sept. %, 1860-It
= the Public consider it my duty 10 make knoWl
II |
u gestion made in some of the morning papers witt
regard to the bminl of the unclaimed and unreGog
$ nizel body lying at the Main Police Station, Frs
:, District Gone Of the victims of the late areadfn
, catastrophe) the said suggestion was this morn %
e ing promptly responded to by the Board OF Un
derWriters, in the person Of Mr.. Chas Briggs, VIII
3 authorized me to have the body decenty Inferred
and which had done. f. D. BEACH, Coroner
d AS TO THOSE STILL MISSING.
), Workmen were still engaged at the ruins yestei
y day, but found no more bodies. Numerous pei
sons, supposed to have disappeared at the fire
d and their names published in other papers, hay
A. turned up all right having only disappeared durin
10 Friday night at less dangerous places, best know
is to themselves. It is supposed by some that ther
are still more bodies beneath the ruins. We hop
v this suppostion will not be verified.
- More Fires and Incendiarisns
I'd Before the great fire of Friday night on Tchoup
lv toulas street, had well subsded, light up tow
nc set the fremen on run in that direction, but Il
light was found to be over the river. From u