Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-21
On Horrors Head Horrors Accumulate
Heaps Of Ashes the Sem
blance Of Humanity.
Porty-sia Little Ones Remain Unac-
counted For and the Tale Of Death
Is Yet But Half Told.
Eighteen Bodies Have Been Bxbumed
and Still the Search is Far
from Complete.
enARcniNa FoR No pEAp.

Recovered Fuinsof the burned orphan
asylum in Brooklyn, searching for
bodies. Temporary provisions have
been made IN various Catholic institu-
.ions for tho care and shelter Of the
children.
A coroners jury was impaneled
to-day, but the Inquest was adjourned
The funeral of the victims will take
place tomorrow, and the intement
will be In the cemetery Of the Holy
Cross nj Fatbush, Il, i.
About noon to-day, when the work
men had almost concluded that there
were no more bodies buried beneath
the debris, they came upon group Of
ak more, AL OF which were burned to
crisp. This makes sixteen bodies
recovered
oNE HUNDRED LITTLE ONES UNAC-
COUNTED FOR.
The Evening Post says "Thus far
sixteen bodies have been found. The
woikmen have not yet reached the
spot underneath the stairway. IT Is
believed that when this spot Is reached
more bodies will be discovered. IL Is
now estimated that fully twenty-five
or thirty children perished in the
ilgme5. Thus far over one hundred
children are unaccounted for but II Is
supposed that they are being cared
for by private houaes.h
THE H0RRo GROWS.
Like the Brooklyn lheater
lire, the Brooklyn Catholic
orphan asylum fire grows in
horror with the hours Up 20 hnlf-past
O'Clock to-day seven more bodies Of
the missing children had been dug
from the ruins, also the body
81 a man. Contractor Mcdonald
with force Of sixteen men COM
nenced work ut o'clock. At q
o'clock the workmen. who had cleared
Oh the top Of the debris, noticed
THE SECTION OF a THIGH HONE
protruding from behind gnarled
and twisted piece of iron. 1t
was gently disengaged from
ils holding in the frozen mass
that surrounded II and the trunk and
yerlebfc Of a full-grOwn adult fol-
loved. The tieshy parts OF the body
were burnt 10 the bones, and the in
teAtineA and spine were charred. The
left arm was deep In frozen mass
and Investigation showed that it still
retained IN AL lbs distortion bent
form X clasPed what had been
THE NICK OF A CHILD.
The latter body, from being smaller
aud not so we'll clad, was burned TO
einder The little trunk dropped from
les restlng-place and rolled until
boulder stopped iH progress. Thes
two bodies we're completely recovere,
-ht least, az completely as the fame
leU them, These two remains Of hu
manity were, doubtless, all remaiuin
81 the devoted father who persisted Il
the attompt 20 save the life OF sic
and maybe crippled and therefor
helpless son.
THE woRKMEH PROCEEDED.
Now they took heap OF burn
ashes and slfted 1t CAREFUL
only TO discover part OF
shoe or some other article OF wearin
apparel thaf had been more fortl
nate than its owner. The half
square OF apRce that interveneg b
tween the boiler and the eastern wa
az the basement OF the infirmary ha
been sifted ut ! o'clock, and the worl
men proceeded In their task an
quickly
CAME UroN TWO LITTLE BODIES.
iylug together against an iron stanct
ion, The woTlIm0n now lRbOred O
aud 10y | o'clock had uuearthed tW
more bodies, and at half past enc ha
exposed two more making eight tn,
far to-day aud eighteen all told II
10 that time. u is stated that II
bodies recovered to-day are in bett,
condition than those dsooverC
yesterday. The bodies to-da,
although burned beyond re-
ogniuon, are not cremat,
beyond recognition as the remains {
human beings, The hip.bones an
vertebrr Of the adult person were
the best state of preservation. m
skulls have been In most instances d
taehed from the bodies. The corne
have not yet been examined and ii
less all signs fail they are likely
hold "A large contingent
or CHARRED CoRrsEs,
The remains OF Sister Josephil
were viewed by Coroner hease al
his jury and the Inquest adjourn,
until alich time as shall be liked
hold an investigation upon all Il
bodies. The body of the sister W
prfled TINS afternoon IN 81. Mary
cemetery at Flushing. The eorpae
WAS FOLLOWED TO THE GRAVE
by the mother superior OF the 5
Johns home, by several sisters and |
some relatives, The arrangement I
the interment OF the other bodies a
not yet made. A part OF ST. Mar,
Hospital is now being used for Il
homeless children. The mi.
inR children are btill being pick,
up IN tha streets The accounts dill
AZ 70 the number OF children IN Il
inlirmary at the time If the oiisaste
The mother superior states that the
were but twenty, while another CLAIM
thal the inilrnary had thirty-flve au
ferlng Inmates. There Is now /
doubt
As 10 WHERE THE FlRH ORIGINATE
Mary Feeney, who was IN a
laundry, has made abatement Ia whic
she relteTatea what fhe had previousI
hald, that the smell OF burning rags
the drylng-roOm was the fiat indie
ton Of the lire Nice-P President Shal
ahan OF the Orphans society said to
reporter that the wings aud mai
building weJe not only supplied vii
iron hfe-eaeRpes. bat had 4alleri,
lifnHIpO fhafr tubnl4 fnn4rfh n.tI .ts.s.