The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20
BRooKLYN's HORROR.
Later News Concerning the Burned
orpha-s s. Home.
THIRTEEN BODIES RECOVERED
FROM TRE RUINS.

New York, Dsc. l9-Nine horribly charrsd
and twisted human bodies were dug out of the
ruins OF the ST. johns Home this morning.
NOT shred OF clothing remained, and OF some
the bare skeleton only wss left A fireman
found them buried under the debris of
the intrmary building, where tho fire origiuat.
ed. The trunks. with pieces Of crispy l,sh
and tendons burned black or brown. yere
wrapped In blankets and CARED to the sery-
Ing room In auotaer AID less damaged part of
me ouliolng. where tbey will rsmsin until
| Coroner Hesse has taken oticisl actiop.
Tbs bitter O. Id that prevailed this morning
prevented the customary large crowd that
gathers on sach occasions but man and women
clustered here and there, come prompted only
BY curiosity, but more hy g desire 10 laarn if
their children who were inmates of the home.
bad been saved. Last night, aud even esrly
this morning it was confidently asserted that
there were no bndies ia tbs ruins but fireman
MoGEoarty of Eugine II, resolutely held to
the contrary. While tbs fire was raging he
saw woman at one OF tho upper windows OF
the inhrmary bailding. and sought her rescue,
hs was @hout to acsDm plish this by the use of
a adeer, but jnss when he had mouated it and
vas ABOUT to reach for her she fell back into
the blazing timbers. Sbs was not agSio seen,
and he knew she must have persisted.
Engine Il AID Truck 2 remained at the iFs
all hight, aAn 25out this morning, at Fore.
man MeGioariy's suggestion, the men, al.
Though benumbed with the cold, set to work to
they found bot alOns the women's remains bat
those OF eight children. They lay together, al
most In heap, as though while huddled to-
getner on the upper story the fl loring had giv-
en- away and they were dropped into the bsz.
ing timbsrs below. These seemed to be the
remains OF eight children and one adult from
the SIZES OF the trunks and the various pieces
although 1t is possible that one or tvso more
are represented by uDrt cogniz .ble fragments.
The trank of tbs adult is doubtless that of he
woman vhom Foremao @eGroarty ATTEMPTED
to save, but the only rscogni ion viii be by the
tact th@t she IS reported missing, and not by
examination of The remains.
Of two children there were skeletons only.
the flesh having been burned off the bones
from one extremity to the other Farther
ssarch was made for other Fragments. but at
lO O'Clock, DO mors being found, the firemen
exhausted and nearly frozen, retired.
The burned buildings were like ruined pa
ace of ic3. Huge iciclss baug from the iitt]s
that remsined OF the roof th9 wallis th At stood
were coated with sheet of ice aud the sur
Rounding gr0ued5 we're like an immense skat-
ing park. Of the iaifmary building. in which
the fire broke out, two walls were LIFT with the
towering chimney, which are threatening to
fall with each fresh gust of wind. The Isast
damaged part of the bcilding was at the
southeast corner, and on the ground floor of
this lay the bodiss Water drpped throneh
tho board ceiling and tbs floor was a sheet of
ice two inches thick.
[LATER.]
Excavators resumed work en- the ruins about
noon and before l O'Clock discovered the r.
mains of two more persons which seemed 20 be-
those of boys about IA years old Later in the
afternoon two more bodies we're found, maxi
ing 10 in all. The loss will not be aaits so
great as was at first estimated. The insurance
aggregates S97 500.
Coroner Hesse was notified this afternoon
and after empanellina jury. he adjoarnsd
she inquest.
There we're 7S0 children in the asylum. 80
Sisters and 30 attendants. At present only
65S OF them sre accounted for. Al bat ane Of
the Sisters and all tho attendants are safe, The
police say they expect to fad perhaps IS bodies
before tney Cease digging, and possibly 80.
Two adults and one bog have died rom iniu-
ries received, and one OF the Sisters is missing
She is supposed to have perished in the flames