New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-06
SEEKING FOR MISSING FRIENDS.
BODIES CuARRED BEYOND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF WOMEN WHO ESCAPED.

BODIES CUARRED BEYOND REcoGNIII0N-sIohiEn
OF WOMEN WHO ESCAPED.
The scene at the Police station, where the
three dead bodies which removed from the RUNS
were conveyed, a pifu one A bed quit
was thrown over the bodies, atd many people
came 10 see If they could not recognize
the undistnguishable black All failed, however
and all statements were simply guesswork. or one OF
the bodies the legs we're burned to the knees
and the two arms to the elbows. Inc
other bodies merely mass OF black cihders
The bodies all those of men, When the faher OF tue
missing boy John McGrath went TO the police station nc
tainted twice. and when he able gave vent to the
most ptiful moans "Oh, sergeant he cried, 10 tell
me my poor boy my only support, isn't deadl On bring
him back to mew The man was getting delirious and
had to be removed. His son has persisted beyond a
doubt Crowds Of women and girls
came during the day looking for lost
relatives, and many went away inconsolable.
At the Long Island College Hospital the injured fire
men and Henrietta Hass aud her daughter were treated
Mrs Hasss injuries are such that taken with her Old
age make her recovery doubtful The most seriously IN
iured Of the is James Fay who Is suffering from
concussion Of the brain and broken leg. I'VE were
standing in the centre Of states said Charles Ruddy
of Engine No. 5, and playing on the walls which just
then tumbled down. From the factory across
underneath stae-s there cellar where there was
some kind of an old engine. There an explosion
after the walls had crashed down sweeping the street up
and precipitating down. Ariver of burning naphtha
and oil was running underneath but we fell between the
exploded boiler and the debris where we were wedgedn
until relief came"
There are more than dozen persons, mostly women
in the tenement house. No so Pacihcst nearly all OF
whom worked in the button factory the top floor.
They naa thrilling to tell OF narrow escapes
Lizzie overs, for example, worked In the kasomine
works on the fourth floor. "When heard the cry OF
fire." she said, not frightened, but simply went
NV Chu Il
fires before by being cool but then the roof came
laundering down andwas set on re by the stove ana he
passage between the wall and the window for me TO
reach the fre-escaPe got safely out and some man
from the second story came running up the
escape and rescued other girls few WINDOWS ,
from me He descended the LADDER g h When S
was crushed as after by all the falling walls
Ward we're engaged on the fifth floor in the
making of steel pins The fire commenced ,rd hrst
the shout OF fire before saw anything ran for the
door hut Mr. Hine came and said not to be pancky ana
locked the door he opened i soon but We made Tor the
Mamie Conlon and Lizzie Scott were in the
Fs.y paSse sS wSo SSd lives sSt No. m sn
S s @ az m Sns see s
thought killed, but when we went TO the police
Mamie Conon and Lizzie Scott had had like narrow es-
Jane Cotton jumped m from @ res1 SnsoM ~ ~ Ss Ssr IN
Atlantcave amid shower of flying sparks and cloud
Of smoke. From the extension she scrambled into
Scarcely landed safely when the extension
itself gave way. 'I didn't know what was doing" she
said. "before jumped, for my shawl was on IRE; II
caught on a long row Of spikes that against the
wall and was swept of my back That saved me-
the si'i TOP soor Where he had over forty hands
employed the greater number OF whom were women lie
in the at the time sf the catastrophe where ne
acted foreman for himself over the employees Close
by my side" said be the roof came tumbling
down and crashed through the nO0r some
body / believe shouted fire. and quickly |
rs possible all hands rushed for the ladder Several OF
huff all
the fire escape, and believe all my hands got safe
away"
Mary Moore, one OF Hines employees, said: " am
almost certain the following girls who worked with
us are lost for saw them fall IN the ruins Mamie
Reilly. Mary Ann McGrath Annie Higgins, Aggie Downs
and Katie McKeOwn."
Henry Rolsess lives at No. 90 Em-st, and was en-
gagged as foreman for william burst "Ten OF u.s., he
said worked together and there are only five OF us ac
for. The following ye must have pertshed
without any doubt Fred Eyer, AdOlph Mates. John
McGrath and Henry burst an uncle OF the proprietor
OF the works who did labOring about the shop"