The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-12-24

The Brooklyn Horror.
New YORK, Dec. ia gang O.
10 laborers were working to-day on
the Ice covered ruins of the burned
orphan Asylum in BrOOklin, search.
Ing for the bodies. Temporary pro.
vision has been made in the various
Catholic institutions for tie care and
shelter of the children. The coroner e
jury was empannelled tc-lay, but
the inquest was postponed. The
funeral of the victims will take place
tomorrow, the interment will be
in the cemetery of the Holy Gro 8,
at Flatbush, Long Island. About
noon, when the workmen had almost
concluded there we're no more kodies
buried beneath the debris. they came
upon . group of six more, all Of which
were burned to crisp. This makes
III bodies which have been recovered.
| LATER.
The Evening Post Gays that thus
far Is bodies have been found. The
| workmen have not yet reached the
spot underneath the stairway: It Is
believed that when this spot is reach-
ed more bodies will be discovered. It
is now estimated that fully Is or 80
children have perished In the flames.
Thus far over one hundred children
are unaccOunted for, but 1t is suppos-
ed many are being cared for at private
houses
LATER.-Like the Brooklyn thea
ire fire, the Brooklyn Catholic or
phan asylum grows in horror with
the hours. Up till hslf-past one TO-
day seven more bodies of "missing"
children had been digged from the
ruins !; also. the body of a man.
Contractor Mcr ~nald, with a force
of twelve M al, commenced work at
six o'clock, and their picks and crow
bars made no unnecessary disturb
ance of the piled up mass of warped
iron, charred timber and frozen mud
that lay on the floor. At nine o'clock
the work men who had cleared off the
top of the debris, noticed section Of
thigh-bone protruding from behind a
gnarled and twisted piece of iron. 1t
was disengaged from its holding in
the frozen mass that surrounded it,
the trunk and vertebl@ of full
grown adult followed. The les fieshy
parts of the body were burnt to the
bones, and the bones and intestines
and spine were charred. The left
arm was de"p in a. frozen mass, and
inv, stigation showed it had retained
in all its distortion a bent
form. In it was clasped what
had been the neck of child. The
latter body from being small and not
so we'll clad, was burnt to cinder.
The little trunk dropped from its
resting place and rolled till boulder
had stopped its progress. These two
bodies were completely recovered at
least as completely as the flames left
them. These two remnants of hui
manity were doubtless all that re-
mained of a devoted father who ha |
perished in the vain effort to saw
the lie of a sick, and may be crippled |
and therefore helpless son. The
workmen proceeded, now, they took
q heap of burnt ashes and lifted it
carefully, only to discover part of q
shoe or some other article of wearing
apparel that had been more fortunate
than the wearer. The half open space
between the boiler and eastern wall |
of the basement Of the infirmary had |
been sifted at IL o'clock and the |
workmen proceeded at their task and |
quickly came on two little bodies |
lying against the iron stancheons.
The workpen now labored on and |
by l o'clock had unearthed two more |
bod :es, and at half past one had ex-
posed two more bodies, which is
thus far to-day and Is all told up to
time stated.
The bodies discovered to-day are
in a better condition than the ten
discovered yesterday, the flesh of the
latter being completely burned off. |
leaving nothing but the cracked
splinters Of the larger bones. The
bodies to-day, although burned be-
yond Identification, are not crelnated
beyond the recognition as remains of
human bodies. The quarters in st.
Mary's Hospital, now being used for
houseless children, was built orig
inally for a stable, The missing
children are still being picked up in
the streets The books show that
there were 7M inmates and of this
663 are accounted for, which
leaves 81 persons missing, 46 of which
are children.