Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-10-19

into large water main was recognized as
Mr.. Aleckson, living at 81 Milwaukee av-
enue.
About 20 bodies of those recovered were
taken from the Easements of two build
ings on the North Side, near Chicago av-
enue bridge.
Yesterday morning tie Relief Commit
tee was thoroughly organized.
Orren E. Moore was elected President,
c. 7 Hotchkiss, Secretary, and David A.
Gage, Treasurer. The Committee met in
conjunction with the City Couacil and
voted that all the monies should be re-
ceived by the single hand of David A.
Gage, the Treasurer, and be disbursed on
the signature of the President and Secre-
tary, and endorsed by the Auditing Com
mittee. Subcommittee were appointed
in every department, and it is believed a
good work is being accomplished in re-
ceiving and distributing the supplies.
Probably forty thousand people were fed
yesterday by the Committee, and provis-
ions are coming in from all directions.
j. W. Preston has general charge of re-
ceiying supplies, and O. c. Gibbs of their
distribution G. NJ Pullman and n. X.
Fairbanks have charge of the distributing
supply depot on the South Side, and Rev.
Robert Collier and John Herting on the
North Side, and Messrs. Moore and
Markham on the West.
AT THE MoRGUE
there was one charrcd form in the attitude
of prayer-the form of woman, but
every feature of the face, every graceful
line of the body was gone. The head was
nothing but black lump, the body a
blackened, hideous shape.
Some bodies of men could be disting-
ulshed by the remnants of clothing and
boots, but nearly all traces of humanity
were gone. Then there were remains of
children and young people, but they, with
the majority, were nothing more than
mere hlackened, charred torsos. Those
whose limbs or arms remained exhibited
a supplicatory attitude, as if begging mer-
cy of the Destroyer
To this CHASTITY, hideous and melancholy
spectacle were admitted in little parties
OF four or five at time. those who had no
friends or relatives missing, but no Ian
guage can describe the scenes of heart
rending agony which these grim visits
elected
A family of little children, led by an
elder sister, comes, and after the first
sickening shock, tries to distinguish the
lost mother. A frantic wife, attended bv
friend, comes in search of her unreturn-
ing husband. Brothers seek sisters lost.
and sisters their brothers gone; but who
can tell in that undistinguishable charnel
what home the living being made happy.
All personal Identification is gone with
the obliterating fire, and nothing is left
but ashes. But perhaps the bitter disap-
pointment at not finding, or rather recog-
niZing, the lost one, is worse than if there
and then had ended the fearful search
Heart-bursting so5s, hysterical exclama-
tons and unutterable wailings rent the
air as the disappointed sad ones turned
away from the sickening scene
But besides the bodies burned to a crisp.
the improvised morgue had other horrors
to reveal. On the near side of the par
ti;ioned space lay half dozen tenantcd
collins - paupers' collins = of implanted
pine, with the bodies laid in without any
preparatory equipment for the grave, not
even the common composure of the arms |
and limbs, the closing of the eyes and the |
washing of the features In one the visit
or was shown the corpse of the man shot
through the head and hung to the lamp |
post-a dreadful warning TO incendiaries. |
In another lay the body of a man with a |
bayonet stab through the body by whom
stabbed no one knew In another was
squeezed the body of a German tailor, |
we'll known in the neighborhood, who
had lost his all by the fire. and acting on
the cowardly principle inculcated BY Goe-
the in The Sorrows Of Vert her, commit
ted suicide rather than bravely live out
his allotted time. He had first opened
vein in his. arm and then cut his throat
from ear to ear with razor. His hands
face and clothes were smeared with gore,
and more CHASTITY and sickening specta-
Gle than that coffin presented could hardly
be found. There, shut it up forever, and
shut out the sight from our eyes-if we
can, and leave the horrid place, never,
never to return.
MUNIFICENT AND SPONTANEOUS DO
NATIONS.
To give list of all the cities, towns
and villages in the country that, without
waiting for request, have forwarded boun
tiful supplies of provisions, blankets and
clothing to the sufferers, it would be ne
cessary to furnish complete gazetteer of
the United States
Among the many whose action was
simultaneous with their knowledge of the
fire, may be mentioned the cities of Des
Moines and Grinnel, Iowa, which started
several car loads of articles most necessa-
~ for the comfort of the sufferers, in
GLIDING large quantity of blankets and
bed clothes. Quincy sent three car loads
raised in less number of hours, accom-
panied by committees Of the best citizens.
In addition to the contributions of food
and clothing there have been magnificent
donations of money, both from private
and public sources. In addition to some
already mentioned are the following:
st. Lous, $4,000, and the citizens, $7e,-
600; Pittsfeld, Mass, $500: j. NJ
Cough, of Santa Fe, 1924; Boston, Mas
sachusetts, 100000; Kansas City, Mis-
souri,, $4,000; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan-
ia, the citizens gave $4,000, and the City
Council 100000; Hamilton, Ontario,
30 900. Patterson N i 81 000 first in