, 1873-01-02

trG Street Fire EfNknN.GSUuA EOtlntnili
Explosion ~ Fall of tlls Brooklyn
Paper NIi1ta-.St1dtlcn Dcuth Of u Pos
--lico Cnptsita.
Speeial Despatch 10 The Chicago Tribune.
New YoaH, ian. t.-.-Flve bodies wo:o fodnd In
tho Contro street ruins to-day. 4 iow minutes
aftor T. gang Of soyonty-flye mon hogan oxca-
waiting, this morning. tlloy dug up tlo rcmatus
Of u human foot and hand aud n par Of thick
Rolod womon's gattorH burned to crisp. Those
woro carefully wrapped up and removed to tho
Franklin Police station. Two hours later, tho
ronainu Of IL lluman body wero unoarthed, with
tho lead and limbs burned of, aud only rocog"
nizablo as rolo Of humanity by ita fetid odor.
About two thousand spectators wore pros
ont, and whom 1t was announced tint d
body had boon found, they wero kept
back only by tho most strenuous
excrtiona Of tho police. Deforo noon throe.
moro bodies woro recovered. All wero conveyed
to tho Btaton.houso for Identification: At 1
o'clock fifth body was dug out md takon to
rolatives Of tho doad grls, poarcllfug among tho
remnants Of tho charred clothing which still
adhorod to tho bodies: The agod Mrs. hlcorath
suddenly kneolcd beside one Of tho miaahapen
cloth aaclf. put this Hcapulary on
you'll" T66s agonizod mothor Ind to
iimba of hor' daughter lad boon completely
burned of, half tho skull was gono, the brains
wcro blackoned and bahod and oaloined, and tho
ribs protrudcd: This heartrending incidont was
soon followed by another equally 1nournful.
Mrs; Donovan accompanied by her crippled son
WAS frantically aoarchng among the corpsos for
her daughters, Margaret and Mary, aged t6 and
IA, who had boon tlrelr mothers solo support
Blnco hor husband was killed two years ugo by
tho fall from q soarold Ths poor womanA To-
was evidently 80 moody that purae Of nearly
800 waB presented her by tho byHtandors. The
body Of Margaret Donah,le, tho older was do
prived OF the legs below tho kneoa tho hands
hardly vostigo Of the flesh ron1ainod. Hor sia-
tor Mary's body was still more rcpnlBive tho
limbs being strangely distorted and indicative Of
agony. A few sllroda Of clothing cluug to tho
remains Wills the w1ee t' Of in
Alexander Il. Dsll, Of ss7 East Ninth street,
recognized tho remaina OF Marga-
ret md Charlotte Bell also by
their clothing. The latter was moro
woro found olasped ia oacli othora arms, aomo
distance from tho other bodies. They, as tho
othors, had doubtless attempted to descend tho
stairs, and finding themselves cslt of by the
smoke and flames, tried to reach tho tlro-cscapo.
their awful doom. They had clasped each othor
80 closely TINT their bosoms were scarcely reach
cd by tho tlames. Their bodcs woro tcrrlbly
charred, with fi1nba missing and heads almost
burned of. This makes six bodies recovered.
Thoro arc got missing James Boyiny, q youth,
Margaret A1cCnrty, aged IT, and Eliza Hartford,
oil whom worked i'll tho bindery. 1twaa not Ms
certained until to-day That tho last two named
were missing.
NEW YoRK Jan. 1.-~Tho fall OF VIM. II.
Mair's paper miila in Brooklyn, on Tuesday
night, caused damage to that building o!
SIT, 600. Il portion Of it crushed i'll the roof ol
i. 4. Smiths flour mills, adjoining, destroying
fourteen Wagons and trucks, killing two horses
and iniurinE several othorH. Tie dnmage to the
flour mills is $4,000. Tho weight Of the snow
on tho roof Of tho paper mills caused tho set.
tling Of the framework Of tho building.
| 4. T. Stewart presented ST, 600 to tho fund FOL
| disabled iiremen,
A Bola-water fountain oxplodod at Mays fac
| injured, and the building badly damaged.
Captain John Cameron, Of tho Eighteenth
| Precinct police, while attempting to stop OH 6
| Third-Ayenue railroad cnr, on Tho corner o
| Ywcnty-accoud street and Third avenue, dropped
| down aud expired almost instantly. Tlo de-
ceased was on tlo police force upwrad Of twont,
years, having Ioen first appointed by Mayo
! Harper, He was promoted to d Captaincy il
1857. Captain Cameron leid high rank amont
| the Masonic fraternity.
| Mayor Havemeyer arrived ut the City lIal
| shortly before noon today, aud was received b,
the retiring Mayor, a. Oakley Hall, who intro
| ducel the members Of tho new Common Council
! and they were sworn into Office. Mayor Have
| meyor subsequently, held reception in tho Gov
! crhurs itoou,, and was called upon by a larg
humber of prominent ctizens and officials.