New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-21
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ELEVEN MORE BODIES FOUND
DIGGING IN THE RUINS OF THE ASYLUM.
EXAGGERATED STORIES DENIED--soME OF TIE


A dozen laborers continued yesterday morning
the work Of digging for bodies In the still smoking
rnins of the burned infrmary of the
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum IN Brooklyn.
They were not Interfered with by outsiders for
the bleak, wInd-swept hill on which the building
stands was too cold and exposed to offer any ct.
traction to crowd of gazers not moro
than hundred people being present at any
one time during the day. Tho task Of the work.
men was exceedingly slow ard fficut. and the ut.
most caution was exercised 10 3 in digging the
blade of the pick should further disintegrate
any bodies that might be beneath.
The twisted and bent pieces of iron,
the charred ends Of boards and piles Of cnders
were all pulled over aud examined by the work
men. At O'clock one of the discovered the
body Of a woman lying near the southeast corner
of the infrmary. The fragments were
placed on an iron tray and taken back to the sew
| lng-machine room in the main building, where
they were laid beside the dozen other skeletons
and covered with blanket.
The flesh in this in the of the other victims
was burnt off of the bones and only portion of the
right hand remained sufficiently intact to furnish
cew to the woman's identity. There is little doubt
however, that it is the body of Mrs. HaIloran, who
accompanied Mrs. McCarron to the AsyIum on
the day 1t was destroyed. When the fro
was at its height in the lnirmary
q woman seen by several persons at one OF tho
windows near the southwest corner. She waved
her moment and then disappeared from sight
surrounded by flames and smoke. This is thought
t. have been Mrs. halloran.
BODIES OF TEN CHILDREN BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
Shortly after noon two small bodies or fragments
of bodies were found in the debris and conveyed to
the charnel house in the front bnilding. At l
o'clock three more little blackened skeletons werc
| nd hall haIf hnur fter here
found two more lying close together
under a heavy iron beam as though
| they had been crushed down
| together by the beam and had died IN each others
arms. From the trunk Of one body the head rolled
as a workman tried to put II on the tray 10 be ear
red away The bones of the skeletons were SO
dried In some instances bv the fierce heat
that they cfumbled AZ the touch of the spade
between four and Ave o'coek IN the afternoon
the picks 6f the wnrkmpn dug ~ tho ehafted
trunks of three more little victims ahi they wehb
into the sewing room beside the relies " the others,
They wefs a found heaF tho heilef, and
heai the spat whefs the last one was
eshumei, James ifaeY, tha undertaken
~ picking over chs Fnhhlsh turned ~ lhe ends ef
several OF the heis used hy lha sleh boys ih iha
nhTmary, The fact thar thess beds were all 10 a
heap led ta the hope that with tho sinAihg of tho
nHrnary ioor all of the boys, beds eto had been
thrown together IN one central spot under ana
around the boiler. This place has been pretty
thoroughly dug over aud Mr.. Mcdonald, who has
charge of the workmen, and Foreman
Kirk, of the fire truck that remanI
on the ground both expressed the be-
ef that more bodies were to DO
found about the boiler. If the children all
fell into this vortex is hoped, then the loss will
not be much greater.
SOME OF THE MISSING ONES FOUND.
| At nghtfal Captain Folk was told that Daniel
| Bradley, one of the trustees of the asylum, had
learned of the presence OF three boys III o
house just outside the city limits. Mr..
Bradley had them removed to Father Creigh-
tons school. whittier also were taken three found
earlier in the day at Mr.. Fitzpatrick's honse in
North Ninth-st. These last three brothers. age
nine ten and fifteen years, named Thomas, John
and James Clarke.
Grossly exaggerated stories appeared in some OF
the newspapers yesterday morning placing the
number of missing at no. 1l3 and other large mum.
bcrs. These cxaggerations were denied by the Sis
ters and others who were in position to know.
James NJ. Shanahan, the vice-president OF the
Board of Managers, said that the
books showed that only TIA children
were inmates of the institution and of this number
663 have been accounted for. leaving only sixty
one missing and of these sixteen bodies have been
| recovered reducing the total number of missing
children to forty seven. The day of the fire was
visors'd day to the institution and donbt less many
children were taken away by their friends or guar
dlans while others ran Oft and cannot be heard
from for several days.
What has become of the missing boys is one OF
the problems to be solved. The absolute refusal Of
Father Mahoney and Sister Superior dc Chantel to
allow any one to look at the roll of the inmates has
created bad impression. That they have such
list they admit, but any description OF the missing
bows their names, ages and fronds-in short, any
thing which could be used to discover where they
are through published descriptions of them-is rig.
Idly withheld. The unfavorable impression Gre
ated by this action IS not lessened by the state
ments of Patrick Cahl who lives close to tho
Asylum and eye witness OF the dreadful dls-
aster in the infirmary. Cahill was one of the men
who saw the unknown woman. supposed to be Mrs.
IIalloran, when she appeared encircled by flames
at the window of the burning building he asserts
that he saw great many chiiren-he placed the
number as high rs ifty-crowding around the
woman. II will not be y matter OF surprise II the
missing boys still to be dug out of the blackened
ruins of the infrmary building
THE MANAGERS CENsURED.
The fact that all of the sick children placed
IN the only building which had no firecscapes and
only one exit also n subject of severe criticism on
the part of Brooklyn people. aud the Board of Man.
ayers are severely censured for permitting this
state of affairs Egrcss from the main building was
ample Il had. in iact. supeiabunJanee oi hre-
escapes but the isolation of the inftpafy ironi
the main building as complete az II n had been
built across the street uny eight feet divided the
bindings. but In trying to leap acrUss that space
sister Josephine fell TO the htek pavement below
and was instantly killed When asked about this
lack of eeress from the inftnaty, spme ci the tn,
tpps said they Thought there was y bridge comment
| inn the two buillines -. ..
| The nutet wall of the ihftmatt has fallen intu
| the street The innpi wall IA ~ strh unhsptnus
| condition TIA, The mpN engaged y, ,uatins were
| warned ~ ths afternoon that ihplt l,Nps we're W