The New York herald., 1876-12-07

rendng sobs and cries Of those who had recognized
dear ones gone forever Now aud then an olicer
would make his way through the crowd up to the iron
gate and commotion stirred ali the crowd Looking
the advance from the elevated steps Of the Morgue
II was strange sight The crowd opened TO admit
the officer city Official and behind him closed again
In a seemingly iuextricabe ,ange.
WAITING AND GossrpISo.
II was noticeable that continued circulation Of gos-
sip was kept up all the while. and from mouth ear
each little grain OF Information BIT OF sensation
stood many little knots OF discussing the horrible
occurrence or waiting for information OF some
friend for whom inquiry being made
Leaning against the dead wall OF the
Jail were two sobbing and
wailing aloud, who had collected around them sym
pathetic crowds OF anxious inqurers into tho OF
their travail. One had not her husband since
Monday night and afraid he had gone 10 the the
a,re and was among the dead. The other, elderly
lady dressed with modest good TASTE had her
son since he left tho breakfast table Tuesday
Ing and she, like the woman nearby full OF awful
Apprehension. While these poor women, whose souls
were suffering all the terrors or suspense and
able to get into the dead house know the worst
have their fears allaycd hundreds, whom morbid Curl
osity had called. making their ways through
the gates, passes In hand to pass review before
the CHASTITY array OF conloried corpscs Those whose
minds were upon tho missing gave thought TO the
iormaty necessary TO obtain admission into the
horgue, and OF course went forthwith to where they
heard the bodies had been conveyed. Hero they
confronted with the officer who demanded passes and
refused admission without them Many OF tho poor
people, dishcsrened at this rst rebuff criod
with despair on the outskirts Of the crowd
HORROR HUNTERS
Tho sightsccrs, the contrary with that cool de-
liberation which characterzes tho play goer who Sc
cures his seat in advance Coroners oaice
and obtained passes OF admission TO the Morgue. on
the plea that they searching for relatives.
Among this class was quite number Of Indies whose
dress indicated an OF circumstances quite beyond
the influence ofthat sensaionaIsm usually supposed
move only the low and vulgar. Many OF these gentle
women entered the house OF horror with much the
same manner AS would become them in tho foyer OF
the opera They pass on, and behind them comes a
lady black with her little daughter clnging to her
SIDE Tho little girl looks up INTO the mothers face
with frightened look but word Is SPOKEN as they
pass the guard and the morgue Here como
three school grs-tney must be- for they have their
books ard rolls IN their hapds--and they too,
have passes from the Coroner They follow IN the
wake OF the gayly dressed the lady IN
black with the little child. string Of men, one OF
and behind them comes lady in deep mourning,
leaning on the arm OF well known physician. Soon
Inc house Is full aad the iron gates locked until
ihc scarchers and sIghtsccrs within have left.
TIE HUMANE uyDEarAxEHs
rafting wagon is hurry!ng down the street and
leh nd II comes Tying crowd OF boys aud children.
is tho wagon OF OF the humane undertakers
Iho have volunteered their services with the body OF
ynother victim. The crowd falls back, heads arc
sverted, and the shapeless form or who u few
hours since, was merry at theatre passes into tho
Morguc. Wagon after wagon comes hurrylng down
the street, and body after body added the ghasty
collection IN the showplace Of death In all shapes
and attitudes various and manifold the fantastic
flames that wrought the havoc came the bodies OF the
victims. The eagerness OF tho crowd to see each
codaver as II was brought in recalled the horrors OF
the Wesineid disaster On tnat awful Sunday, when
nll the people IN New York who had friends aboard
assembled on pier East River and magncd that in
the lineamen,s OF each man taken from
tho water they discovered the face OF a dear
one, tho police powerless babes This
OF Official hepiessness but for the gates OF
the Morgue would have been rc.enactcd yesterday.
As It was, the building all tour sides be-
sieged by unmanageablc crowd that buged
through the windows and strained Tor sight OF the
dead In one of the windows the officers in charge
graced II at eleven in tho morning These human
ruturcs remained 10 feast on the scenes Of distress
and inexpressibie being enacted us each
searcher Tor lost relative made hasty and eager
specton OF the dead. Thus the day wore on until
night aud lent horrors the OF deso-
latiou.
rHR MoRGrE.
AT this place, early morning iilI night OF ycstcr.
day, the mos, extraordinary scene was presented,
presented again. Great surg,ng of men, women
and children niled The street in front and all around
tho resting place oil the dead, and the policemen had
laborious time in Keeping order among the camorous
applicants ior admission Even old women struggled
with young to get inside Tho building.
t MORBID VISITORS
The police wcre sometimes rude, bat as rule they
showed fair discretion The bodies in the Morgue
piied almost on top Of each other. Not inch OF
space unoccupicd except such part
sary admit the passage OF visitors. Women in large
numbers came. looking alter friends and relatives.
aud there were women, too, who came from
motive OF morbid curiosity aud disgus,ed
everybody. Several OF these, without any sense
of icehngor mcdesty gazed the burned corpses OF
,c men, bodies and limbs naked, with ghoulish SEN
imenl Il came," said one Of these people in
the inquiry oil tho writer, ITO see II gentleman
friend of mine among the vciims;n but her con-
dur she went along hitting the burned and tattcrcd
fragments from oil tho persons OF the hideous corpscs
characterized W levity that Indicated very little
~omany feeling
ArrEARANcE
Tho great mass OF charred bodies, some with their
and legs projected IN the air and all black as
charcoal, striking spectacle and which
nobody who saw II ever possibly forget Some
had their brains dashed out and sign of blood was
here and visible intensifyng the already awful char.
actor oil the situation. There salwart men with
their legs burned bare OF clothing and drawn
up as Il would appear, In agony OF torture
There others who died with their
legs closed together, II they had resigned them
selves 10 late As rule, however the expression Of
The corpses that OF resistance to DEATH and this
seen IN The almost general exhibition OF up
nfl I'D arm or le tn aght OF