The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-16
THE SOUTHERN HOTEL.
CONTINUATION OF THE SEARCH AMONG THE
RuINs-No MORE BODIES DIscovERED--A
DEFENCE cor THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BIZ A
EIREMAN-WHAT Ir AccoNpII surn

RUINs-No MORE BODIES DIscovEBED--A
DEFENCE cor THE FIRE DEPARTMENT By
fIREMAN-wHAT IT ACCOMPLISHED.
81. LorIs, No, April Is. 1877.
Vigorous search has continued all day in ruins
OF the Southern Hotel. bu, no bodies we're dis
covered Numerous articles OF jeweIry, silver
ware bar and table furniture, broken and
burned trunks articles Of clothing and papers Of
various kinds, valuable and otherwise, have been
taken out Much the larger part Of the debris has
been turned over and belief general Ii there can
not be more than two three bodies remaining the
ruins. viz those OF Charles Kicnch the head waiter
the child OF Mrs. H. j. Clark and its nurse Ella Jack
son. This belief Is sireng hened by the TACT that
all the help Of the hotel, except the head waiter and
girls known to have been killed and previously men,
toned have reported, and ali the guests excepting
have been heard from
X. N. Clark and I. T. Stevens. relatives OF II. ).
Clark, arrived yesterday from North Adams Mass but
they do TO be quite satisfied with tho identi
fcation OF the bodies supposed to be those OF H. J.
Clark and wife. This morning they had workmen
begin search in that part OF the cellar directly the
corner Of Walnut aud Fourth streets. adjoining tho
which the bodies were found; but thus lar
1t has been fruitess
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT..
In view OF the sharp criticism directed against tho
Fire Department, an interview with John Lindsay,
ono OF The assistant engineers of tho department.
which gives detailed account OF tho Efforts OF fire.
men 10 lives, viii DO OF general interest. Mr..
Lindsay drove from his house nrc as fast as his
horse could rum and at hotel in less than fvc
minutes after the alarm struck The nrc was then
coming out OF the sixth story windows and through
the rooi.
STORY OF AN ASSISTANT ENGINEER.
He says
stood in front OF the hotel and after lew minutes
look at things made up my mind that II impos-
sble 10 save tho building, ana that the main object
should be 10 save the people. The Skinner Hook ana
Ladder truck stood At the main entrance on Walnut
street n front Of tho vcranda. The skinner Hook
anu Ladder truck is used as regular hook and ladder
truck well tire escape 1t has all
the Appliances Of hook an ladder truck on as well
the escape. These things nave to be stripped of.
and the men were stripping them OIL when ! got
there. ! ordered them TO get ready as pos
sblc One OF tho principal ladders tho extension be-
longing to the hre escape, was laid the
sidewalk, and when tho men came 10 look Tor II
the crowd OF people mad become great that men
could not hnd Il, and u was probably two or three
would coming the Walnut stree, front tor assist
ance, but nobody appeared IN sight. ! ordered tho
apparatus raised and the boys raised tho machine.
running from tho Fourth street front and SAID
rhcre's lot OF people on the Fourth street front
The escape is not such that you run with II
along the street, You may move y on smooth ground,
but hardly across tho car tracks with safety. SO
ordered the apparatus down again, and tho men took
il along TO The Fourth street front and
there raised H. II was raised right against
the vcranda, which out to the edge OF the
walk, and on that account could not get right
into the window. which we wanted 10 do. ordered
the connecting rod pin taken out and let the upper
ladder tall back on the wlr" rope usea Tor raising until
We got the escape right INTO the window, and
then Tooc and McKcernan and Thorne
won't up the ladder and brought out seven persons.
There was nobody else IN sight IN tho Fourth street
windows, SO took a run around the IRE 10 see how
things were going on. When | got back TO Walnut
street again there was man in fourth story window
We had ladder up on the vcranda OF the
Walnut street side, but u was not long enough by
one story. The man cried for help, and / ordered
tho men iako the ladder and throw him rope,
which was done, ana the down safely: then
went back on Fourth street Tho irc escape had
taken out everybody that In sight that Ind
10 the windows. | ordered the men 10 take down the
ladder and take II around 10 Elm street. where tho
girls were could not got 10 them. We could
reach them from the street. We had TO splice two
ladders together aud then take up scaling ladder
mans shoulders, and wc took out seven or eight
girls tho back vi tho Elm street wing.
Michael Hester, driver OF engine No TO- took the
scaling ladder his shoulder and hooked II To the
window sill ana by himself brought down seven or
eight girls shortly after this, word US that
another 10 n window on The Fourth street
| front. We went there and found c. r. Kennedy In .
fifth story window like tho boy ON The burning deck.
We took him down; he the last taken from
that side oil tho building
which Mr. Spaulding tho proprietor Of the Olympic
and some others got down We used tho ladders all
around the hotel wherever occasion required
Lindsay cmphaticaly denied that part OF this nre
escape was not the ground at tho commence mont
OF the hrc has been charged, and said there
delay In handing IL, except when tho crowd
covered up the extension ladder by standing on IT.
He praised the escape highly, ana said there was
nobody who 10 tho WINDOWS VINO not taken
out bv SKINNER escape II they remained there until
Il could reach them. o course the escape could not
be on all sides OF the building AZ once but he thought
II those persons who jumped had waited they could
have been saved by the escape.