Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-07
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
TAKING OUT THE BODIES
FROM TIE RUINS AT
BROOKLYN.
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
A Great Gathering Of
Veterans.
SIR PETER LUMSDEN RESIGNS.
Short Acquitted at New
York.
DIGGING AMONG THE RUINS

DIGGING AMONG THE RUINS
For Victims of the Brooklyn
Horror-TerribIe scenes White the
Workmen Pick Out the Bodies
The Dense Crowds CIamoring
for the Blood of the Contrac-
tor.
NEW York, May 6.-Fourteen bodies
had been recovered up to o'clock this ey-
ening from the ruins of the fallen and burned
buildings in Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn.
The streets in the neighborhood were filed
all day with excited people who loudly de-
nounced the carelessness which led to the
disaster. The gang Of workmen digging in
the ruins during the latter hours of the after
noon took out nine bodies in quick succession
from one spot. Not one of the bodies would
have been recognized by an ordinary OBJ
server as that of human being. They
were charred and broken to such degree as
to destroy all semblance of humanity. The first
remains brought out were in solid shapeless
mass adhering together, The coroner, after
examination, pronounced the mass to be the
bodies of two persons. 1t was Impossible to
say whether men OF women, young OF old.
Shortly afterward another solid mass was
turned up. The workmen thought it a
piece of charred beam. A physician by
cutting into it with penknife found it to be
part of body. People in the great crowd
uttered cries Of horror as they witnessed this
proceeding. Several persons who had
friends or relatives in the ruins and were in
aloud The people grew nervous and the
throng began to sway slowly back and forth.
The policemen redoubled their exertions to
keep them quiet, but in vain. It
was a scene of rare excitement.
Suddenly well dressed man walked through
the police lines Some one cried out that it
was Miller, the contractor s.Lynch himi''
'tLynch the hound!' suddenly shouted
another voice. An angry roar followed this
cry Women shrank back and grew pale
and the stranger glanced apprehensively
around at the menacing people. Sharp cries
of ttNol'' ttNol" and t'He's not the mani"
came quickly from many men: A moment
later the sight of the coroner bending over
another charred mass distracted the attention
of the crowd and the threatened danger was
averted.
Meanwhile the laborers piled picks and
spades carefully and every few moments
passed up something for the coroner to ex-
araine Sometimes the substance turned out
ties were stored in the building, but more
often it was part of a human frame. The
extremities in most cases had burned off.
Only part of the body of John McGrath was
found It consisted of the right shoulder,
part of the right erm and about three
quarters of the trunk. The legs had disaP
peared. Glued to the trunk was a great
mass of rubber. The recovered bodies were
conveyed by workmen to an alley
way and laid upon the ground. A great
crowd outside the alley way was kept back
by policemen. After while pine collins
rived and the pieces were placed in them.
When the laborers carried out the collins to
be conveyed to the dead house, crowds of
eager men and women pressed about and
tried to look at the remains They had to be
fought off by the policemen with clubs.
The scene was terrible one. Four
of the bodies found this after
noon are supposed to be those
of Adolph Mates, who leaves a wife. and
child; Henry burst, brother of the owner of
the tin factory; Frederick Egger and John
McGrath. The foul odor which prevails
about the place leads many to believe that
more bodies are in the vicinity. On all sides
curses are heaped upon the builder and con-
tractor. The stencil was SO great in this
monster grave that several of the workers
had to relinquish their tools while others
took their Tlaces