The New York herald., 1872-12-30


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on with the work. Axes, shoves and picks were
freely used to break away the Ice the policemen
exerting themselves by every means In their
FACILITATE THE BUSINESS.
RSsn M se sns ss an
Douglass was thickly covered with dirt in lew
moments that u could not be .ecognized, and Ser
sssn' eer After she S body ys had sss seen removed
70 the station house captain Kennedy
and an ana Der MARSH
assr pairs entirety to the police As As the rst body vas
found some distance from the nre escape the
in the same spot; but when the workmcn had ding
down II was found that this supposition WAS
work had been in PROCESS some time 1t was found
that could be made much more speedy II the
large seams wnlcn opstructed me enoEts 81 the
wore procured and 4N 4
a CHAIN VAS ATTACHsD
task and united tug was given ct the rope but the
beam did not move aparticls. 1t was encrusted IN
TO remain. The Ice was out away with Satcnets,
and at the next enert thu beam moved, and with
znoss ~s s as ans 81 ss
ana IN less than two hours large portion Of the
During this time % no other bodes were were fennd,
but'at three o'clock Captain Kennedy, who was
he sSa fs
Snadlsa up i shs shape Of human Being iprs i re-.
Quired the most strenuous efforts to get the gas
pipes detached from The beams, and the Whole
force OF the workmen was pc: on to pun them ont.
veyed to . slde street, 80 as not 10 obstruct the
passage Of the cars. Morgan Jones stood upon the
ruins with Captain Kennedy all the tame. and gave
At halfpast three O'Clock the body whscn had
been taken to the station house
A girl who worked In the book bindery was In
se o s
remained had two rings upon one OF the fingers:
She was asked 20 go to the room in which Il had
as she said she would not bc able to stand the
horrible sight In few moments a young man,
ing INTO the, station house. He tore past
the police to the apartment In which the
FORE 1t was thicky covered with ice but the short
| time II had remained In the room had partially
the left hand and then burst in into tears @ saying T
IN heartbroken voice, .Oh, that's my sister,
&
looked at the hand. 1t was the jeweller who made
the rings for the unfortunate girl One was
The jsweller immedately recognized tn the rings.
not remain a. n a ne u s
| days he has not been in complete
! POSSESSION OF HIS SENSES,
! and his conduct has been that OF o crazy man.
When he came out to the door OF the station house
his father-an old man-who was childish with
grief, stood upon the steps. ~ have found her;
went to rush Into the station house, when
the son restrained him; saying passionately.
endure the sight, The old insisted Se
ing in, but the son used force TO Keep him back,
large haa Collected the door IN th
meantime and the young man. breaking through
them, freed himself from the fearful scene. The
n nd Of w wa n Ln tnti in
house at the time OF the recognition said that the
girl was remarkably pretty. sne was slight in
pan!ons. and her untimely death is deeply
station house tho remains were covered with
blanket to conceal them from the gaze OF the
would never have been recognized, and the police
are hoping that the remaining ones, which still
to be found, may be as easy Oi OiidentifcatiOn.
Shortly after the work had becn commenced
WARDEN BRENNAN,
70 ceW " tba n gn ana
ing ambuances that lay In his power kIr. Hop
kns, who was foreman Tor Anderson Archer, was
| also upon the ground. He says he has
been to wait upon the relatives OF the de-
ceased by order Of his nrm, who are willing
ion that the bodies will not be found near the fire
escape, as he is assured by personal observation
taken down, and he thinks that those who perished
must have been caught on the burning stairway.
Engineer Bates Thought that the elevator, which
still stood upright would be dangerous when the
termned to nave part oft hauled down. large
ladder was procured. and few dremen mounting
Se roots 20 Of 1nf the ID
were ut this time covered with spectators, and be-
fore the walls were pulled down Captain Kennedy
sent R0undsmen Covert and Dean to drive them OF
and apprise the people in the vicinity. When this
had been done the whole force OF the laborers
terrible hauls the 'front.' portion Of the elevators
fell in. scattering the bricks in every direction and
-'' ''t;if CLOUD OF SMOKE AND DUST.
The end wall OF George Middeton's building was
the engineer, to make everything safe, had this
pulled down also.
There was now no obstruction to the efforts OF
the w0fkmeD. and the business went briskly on. |
The beams and pipes were rapidly hauled out, and !
before darkness came on the roughest portion Of |
cluded little after Eve O'Clock and the work
men were discharged. with orders to re-
this morning. Thoroughly manned and fatgned
Captain Kenpedy and his men returned to the
the hands Of many n.y. Of them s were bleeding. TOO, TOO
much praise cannot be given to the Captain for
It W ever We mas e 10 n
credit. The sergeants and Detective Dolan also
and s win es a y
work was the hardest which they have done since
It is wen that the clearing OF the ruins CON-
menced yesterday, otherwise popular indignation
would have shown itself in some forcible manner.
lHc plotuSi VI INC NY DeSins, Who was PiSechts
stated that the working people similarly contem-
plated an attack upon the ruins. In this case q
collision with the police would have been inevit-
able, but recourse to such violent means has been
rendered unnecessary by the intervention OF JUS
tice Downing and Morgan Jones. The bitter feelings
which the spectators had eyinced during the
morning were greatly allayed when tue work
WAS COMMENCED IN EARNEST.
Among the friends Of the deceased who were
upon the ground were the brother and mother OF
the two Donoho sisters. The brother is q cripple
and the mother Is an old, tottelihe, gray-haired
woman Her cries could be heard all over The
street. and she had finally to be taken home by her
son. The mother Of the girl McGrath accompanied
her son, and was equally loud in her lamentations.
She says her son and daughter and herself have
kept house together for years. the daugh-
ter by her earnings contributing to their
support The son was very violent yesterday
morning before the search commenced. He said
n the bodies which were buried were those OF
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