New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-07
TEN BODIES FROM THE FIRE.
SEARCHING ALL DAY IN THE RUINS.
TRYING TO FIX THE REsPoNsIBiLirY-THE Ar
RESTED CONTRACTOR DISCHARGED.


Sytv Works Department put to work at an early
bonr Yesterday digging in the ruins OF the AuancaVe
fra when night fell and work was stopped eight Dodes
had been recovered. besides foot and womans shoe
with the fragments of two toes belonging so the phy
clans affirmed different bodies making, all told ten
bodies found. The workmen made slow progress with
their picks and shove in the snarl Of halburnt BEAMS
shafting and steam and gas pipes.
Alto o'clock body was dug up from under mass OF
bricks and tin in the OF No. 81 Atllntc-aye ~
was taken to police station and identified by David
Butler as the body Of his brother Edward Butler VINO
works as a waiter In restaurant. wastcoat that
belonged TO him found near the BODY. inc body
WAS almost Observation-Disclosures, but by means OF the
wlstcoat the teeth and portion OF the mar that chung
TO the scalp 1t finally recognized. Butler had
Jumped from the window OF the tin-shop on the third
door when the first wall fell, but he was pinned
down by the falling bricks. Shortly after noon
charred fragment was exhumed from
the debris under the place where the metaspnning
shop OF william burst had been. From the position
OF the body 1t was believed be that OF Frederick Esger
who worked for Burst EgSer was twenty-one' unmar-
rled and lived at No 80 Trautmanst., Brooklyn
skull and part OF "A chlrred vertebra were dug out
at l:45 O'Clock from the debris OF Ddrsts SHOP. Inc
heal was damned between brick furnace ana q oeam'
Several who had been at work IN
the shop when the building fell stood in the
ruins and watched the digging. They thought
from its location that this was the body OF
"Johnnie" Mc5ralh Bstweea AMI 3 O'clock IN
another part of the ruined WING directly
under the palnt-shop occupied by L. A. Young
two oharred trunks OF bodies were found lying
within two feet of zach other and close to the par
titlon wal! The two fragments did not look like those
found under bursts shop. but were coated with
gutnous yellow substance, that made the hospital ply
clans present Drs. Page, Cochran, kuppe ana Bell
doubt for some whether they bodies or Jumps
OF rubber Surgeons knives thrust into the sPongy
substance and large Jumps cut OF and examined
critically before decision was reached II was hnhy
decided that they bodies that had become coated
with glue or liquid rubber used in the actOry' ln9
suhs auce dug up uui Ter the phlut-shUS IL looAu
"a Wv, , a., La ten,ery down by the side OF the
CHAR "a remnants hcapOf rubbish in the rear 81
No 81 Allan ticave. The doctors got to work win their
knives but after hite,n minutes carving threw away tile
remains of what was frs tiou hit to be a body.
workman dug mp hand about I'VE rect IRON wnG1e
a body had found. Toe bones were small ana DR.
Page pronounced 10 the hand OF woman.
While every one present was wondering YheIe
the body was to which II beionsen snoe %ns ~ ~
humed by the workncn and promptly Inspected ny the
doctors. In the dirt and CRIME thai hed me shoe "nc
WAS OF woman tue doctors IOanu "h1t he3 s S ~
This shoe was found al distance IRON tho
foot and the whether they belonged TO the bodies
remains of separate DOues themselves - H''
known %r another body was found under Darsts shop
Henry RO.see, bursts foreman, Thought at hFst from
it, and the fact that lathe WAS lying by US SIDE,
that it was that OF AdOiph Mates. The body ha on
Snrt au SDo bnwcycr AZ the Morme later Males
brother failed recognize and said he did not think II
was Adoph Shortly afterward another body was
SaS under ts One '1 must the ancs Of
| his employer. but when he saw
pair OF sp-ctaces that found by the side OF the
body he said conld not he Henry burst because while
Henry DaIst wore saosss he meyer oea oIf
years old. The jaws and teeth were perfect excepting
that two teeth on the rght lower jaw were gone
DoEn near the bottom the heapOf rubbish I'd silica
under Dlr,ts meashop was found at dusk the eighth
served all The blueandWhite jumper still adhered 10
the frame. and William burst who was present. had no
dimeuty in recognizing the BODY OF ms Uncle behI(
Dns age h he baJ worn when Al WORK werr
Han his hfIV
and laid beside the others Mr. burst was the last
door OF No 81 Atlan,icve. collins passed in
SIDE IN which the fragments aud bodies ~ere
were taken to Morgue by County Undertaken Foran
OF the geH names e B 70 IeG DH Lse
the engineer and Henry burst have been identified as
esed IRON ths ssrTG ems ~ the 2orse are The
Hioks-st John McGrath. age sixteen. OF No ~ Boni
Frederick Egger ago twentyone, OF No. 80 Ir1at,
msD-st; and Henry HalIncr, age fotyhye, OF No. l9o
Grahan-ave. II each fragment recovered yes |
bodies will have been found in all. The
LET OF mss WN was s cbTeSe ~ ge
unmarried. and Lying vita his brothtrn,iaw: D. d.
for H. L. Judd on The top noor OF the Wrst Wig anu MS
been since tue fire. IL Is believed tat te per
The body of Daniel Lowrev. the and janitor
building, identified by his vile YESTERDAY at
and sn By VlST portion Of bis shirt that renamed
His funeral will take place tomorrow az ms hone 30
SO Atlantic-ave. He mber OF Rankin Post q: |
r., and the veterans OF that organization viii attend
The funeral i'm body Lowrey had ample time to save
himself when the crash but remained at bis posi-
long enough to blow the whistle and warn the persons
working in the numerous factories OF their dancer and
TO shut OFF the the engine. When he tried to
escape IL was too late .,, 49,,
HoSrhion' Boston man. He had three aud two |
of the daughters Married George L. Alb
bot the ageut who has charge OF the property the other
il single or the three sOns0ne lives In hewliampshre
in Buffalo and the other in Corning, ~ y About |
three years ago Amory Houghton died and in settling
up the estate the property sold TO Nathan Cushng
so long he continued IN the position IL Is |
said that Honghton's son, who lives 10 /
asked who owned the property he hesated. and SAID
1t belonged Mr. Gushing as much as to any Que else
WHAT THE AGENT AND OTHERS SAY.
Mr. Abbott was an interested spectator at the ruins
yesterday. To TRIBUNE reporter he said
81 know that I freely denounced be-
OF this accident, and 1t Is said |
that to escape arrest. but | am |
here have DO fear but that after the thing has
been carefully looked into Will be vindicated Ia my be-
lief that there reason to think the building I'M
safe 1t is not true that the walls anything about the
building unsafe should have known 1t II II had
been for went through 1t every day. Yes. |
per cent risks ID the building This was not however
because they considered the risks extra hazardous but
for the reason that there many business
occupying 1t and some Of them carried heavy IN
surances The COMPANIES hdd therefore more rsks OF
ered them than they really wished to carry on any place
Of the same dimensions consequently they forced up the
he considered 1t good risk at 2l9 cent The reason
an DIdce DelhB put III WAS Decbusc tno h"oI
sagged somewhat. made a contract for liking II with
"a responsible man, Frank W. Miller aud he had full
charge OF the work. The jackscrews only used
sustain the building while the new beam was being put
In. The beam should have been strong enough
have sustained the weight that
upon 1t. II IL by 10. About
a year ago Inspector OF Budings-I think his
is LonglOoked at the place and ordered tire escapes.
They put up. Some eighteen months ago the
Building Department examined the foundation They
and they put In. AT that time
metal roofing company occupied TOP io2r They
the reason, braces were ordered. This company
afterward moved away. | cannot say what
was the cause OF the accident, but do
believed 1t caused by the ten tons Of Silica for
Ihn