The New York herald., 1876-12-08
AFTER 7nE HOLOCAUST.
Gathering In the Dead Of the
Brooklyn Disaster.
AMONG THE RUINS YESTERDAY.
The AgOnizing Scenes at the Two
Morgues Continued.
PITEOUS RECOGNIIIONS.
The Fire Marshal's Investigation
Important Evidence.
A THRILLING JUMP FOR LIFE.
4 Water Hydrant on the Stass-Emply
Buckets In the Flies.
A GREAT GRAVE In GREENWOOD.
The Herald'S Inquiry Into the Safety
Of Our Theatres.
Hints from the Public on Theatre Panics
and Fires.
1 Water Hydrant On the Stass-Empty
Buckets In the Flies.
A GREAT GRAVE In GREENWOOD.
The Herald's Inquiry Into the Safety
Of Our Theatres.
Hints from the Public on Theatre Panics
and Fires.
RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS.

RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS.
Hour by hour the awful disaster at she Brooklyn
Theatre takes on proportions appalling. Tho
busy searchcrs for the dead unear.h Victims and
exhibit In all Its horror the fearful tragedy which has
brought mourning " many homes and spread
deep gloom around the hcarths OF the community.
In every household OF the land there
viii be shed abundant tears for the bereaved ones
turned to houses Of sorrow where amid wailing ana
unavailng tears the gathered about tho
charrcd and blackened blcrs OF tho dead. And alas!
there are those who must weep memory; for
loved friends who the fulncss OF life went forth and
never returned, and left trace behnd-vicsims
whom the savage flames killed and then devoured.
What words picture tho grief OF those afflicted
ones from whom envous death snatched even the ro-
mans OF its vietimsi
DIscoNsoLATr sRARcHKRa
yesterday these unfortunates wandered with tear
hed eyes and accs haggard with sorrow through tho
soul-appaing scenes Of the Brooklyn Market and
Aorgue eagerly scanning the nrescorched ana black
cned forms that seemed DEFY the eyes OF love
ers passed In sad array through scenes or horror
that make tho blood curdlc In the veins
Of men accustomed TO witness human misery in all
its dread fcrms and, falling find any Of those
they sought, left griefstrlcken than when they
entered At intervals piercing. heartriving shrek
told that some scarcher had discovered husband
brother In . blackened mass thar had been
human-and then the searchers, startled for q
ment. went on again absorbed in their own
There ghoul like beings, 100, who to glut
their morbid curiosity, and somc alasl were women.
ABOUT THE RUINS
Crowds OF sighlsecrs filed the streets In tho neigh.
borhood OF tho ruin. Patiently they stood hour by
hour watching the passage tho underakcrs' wagons
and specializing the probable extent of the disaster
discussing its cause. Within the thero is very
little change the bIackened walls rise up threateningly
from the edges OF the yawnng pit where many VIC
tims found grave.
The diggers nave gone below the last layer Of the
nrss discovered mass OF doad and are pushing
their examination forward throwing back tho earth
and debris into the first pit to open up the
remainder OF the ground under the vestibule, where
Il Ia fecred other bodies lio buried In excava-
ton made on the Floods alley side OF tho vestibue
four bodies discovered, and it Is thought that
across the whole space between Washington street
and Floods alley arc scattered bodies OF the dead
THE INVESTIGATION.
From tho evidence adduced before Fire Marshal
Ready there is to believe that over four hun
drsd persons perisncd Blinded by smoke. and panic
stricken. tho people in the gallery blocked exits
hat MI mn NIL had vho mad
estimate that not twenty thirty occu-
pants OF the upper gallery made their way to
the street, ana the box office returns show
that there were in this part Of the house four
hundred persons 1t Is probable that the exact loss Of
life will never be accurately known, for many OF the
victims have been reduced ashes IN the terri
bic furnace heat when the flames had gained complete
mastery. Some Of the mystery that enshrouded tho
catastrophe from the first will continue cling around
II forever, nlling the measure OF its horror
DISASTER
How the dre spread RAPIDLY through the theatre
cut of all escape a few minutes has been ono
Of tho questions frequently asked by the public
That question has been answered with terrible
cearness In tho investigation by tho Fire
Marshal There was no provision tho stage
or In the theatre for the occurrence Of
nre Not drop Of water in the flies, hose on
tho stage. not precaution taken to combat danger
that IL always imminent the slage-thc outbreak Of
fire. And to this negligence unquestionsb,y Is duo
the terrible calamity that has fallen many homc
There Is the more blame attaching to those
responsible Tor this negligence because. according 10
the testimony OF tho architect provision for q water
supply made In tho erection OF the building, but
II to have becu forgotten in tho lapse OF time.
How fatal The want OF water proved may be judged
from the testimony OF the chief machinist who posi-
lively that had there been han the
Ore could easily have been extinguished when FIRST
was perceived
shcatrc, makes tho important statement that thore
water In Tho hydraut, procurable had there been
sufficient coolness tho OF those whose duty IL
was to uso It, flo says also that thero buckets,
which could have been filled vt this hycrant In n
moment. But the public will not iuil TO ask,
'wny thesc buckets not kept ned and
ready for instant uses" This would have bcen
ouiy reasonable prccaution; for minute IS
iog 10 lose IN dealing with SO terrible enemy
as fire among the ln1ammabio materials that make up
the bulk OF stage properly One moments delay in
cssung wafer an incplent nre makes the difference
between alarming incident md an awful calamity
that VIII i've ~ the momory oil generations Some
Que Dlundcrcd, aud tho Official investigation wi no
doubt, place tho responsibility the proper shout
ders-and terrible load IL will be tor tho men
who must bear It
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY.
Beth the architsct and Mr.. Shock bear witness 10