New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-04


THE LOSS TO PROPERTY THRILLING.
Tho loss Of property by the fire was trfng
compared with the loss of human life. Abram
Stern, lawyer at No. III Bowcry, owned tho
burned building He said that he purchased 1t
six months ago and had altered it into work
shops for the tailors. His loss was about $4,000,
hut his property was insured. The shops In the
building were occupied by Alcxander horn; Hey-
man Gruft, David Klein, Harris Wolf ana John
Levine. Their losses and the losses OF their Gun
ploycs probably will not exceed $4,000 nut tncy
were said to have little If any insurance on 'neir
property. ,,,
Furniture and clothing worth few hundred
dollars were burned up in the rooms oil Tue S.e-
vsnsonS In she m White hGqse the ,1 Peepe The
tire some scenery at the OF the stage was DAM
aged by water and the flames burned OF a sman
corner of the theatre roof, but the damage TO
the theatre property was less than ST. oo
AWFUL EXPERIENCES AT THE HOSPITALS.
NARROWING SCENES AT THE MoRGUE, WHERE
THE DEAD WERE TAKEN.
At Bellevue Hospital the office was crowded during
the evening with the friends Of the missing and IN
turvd. The hospital ambulances which responded
TO the call had brought back with them Michael
Rubnof, of No 81 EsscN-st. He was at hrst not
thought to DO seriously injured. Dr. Eidmann who
examined him. found that his bruises were slight ou'
his back was badly injured from fail and his case
was pronounced dangerous.
A Young woman who was brought to the hospital at
the same time stll more seriously burned about
the face ard body. Sho unconscious and por~
tions of the body were burned TO cinder Her first
name was said TO be Sarah and her home was re-
ported to be at No 43 Essex-st From appearances
she appeared TO be about twenty years old She was
taken by the ambulance from No. l9o 1-2 Bowery'
No one had identified her late in the evening, and II
was not thought that she could live until morning
Later in the evening Bernard Rothman, tailor OF
old an1D
Turiove, twenty-five years old tailor OF No. 10
Deisncey-st were brought from Governor Hospital.
Beth were badly burned, but not, thought, IA
tally
CROWDS LOOKING FOR THEIR FRIENDS.
When IL learned by the friends of the victims
that they were bang removed TO Bellevue Hosptai
they hurried there IN crowds from the lower part OF
the city. A few of them who had the means were
able to pay their way the street cars but the great
number were poor people without money, who SPOKE
lille or no English and only in vague way the
direction of the institution. They walked half dis
tractcd along the Bowery and up Third ave. bare
headed and followed by crowds, which were attracted
by thcir distracted manner.
Sometimes the women would run wildly for several
blocks until exhausted by the effort All who came
were admitted to the Office, and Clerk Richard, with
the aid of an Interpreter, able to secure with
much difficulty from them the names Of the persons
FOR whom they were searching. Some went away re-
assured when they found that the friends they were
locking for were at tho hospital Those who were
certain that their hiends were in the fire and had
been lost were taken the Mcrguc with the view OF
identifying the bodies there.
FIFTEEN BODIES By TEN O'CLOCK.
The dead wagon of the hospital was busy all the
evening carrying the oharred remains OF the victims
10 the Morcuc BY 10 O'Clock fifteen bodies had been
received and placed in large pine boxes along the soe
Of the bare brick structure. great pile OF these
boxes empty occupied the centre of the noor ana IL
was rapidly reduced as the dead wagon arrived WIN
its CHASTITY loads. ANY identihcatoh OF inc
remains seemed absolutely impossible. On
few Of the bodies there were remnants OK cioths
sufficient 10 indicate The sex: on some finger or
ear ring: but In most these ornaments haa oeeh
burned or had melted off, The corpses were noun
ing more than black charred frames from which all
the flesh had been consumed. Only one or TWO races
retained any semblance by which they cou'a w ois-
tneushed as human features.
Eleven of the fifteen bodies were men, two were
women, one a boy and one a girl The remains Oh
tho two children, Joseph and Celia Gruft VINO were
only four and seven years old, were piaceo IN QUO
box the first in the horrible row and neaTes. 'he
entrance Tho mother Azelia Gruft, who persisted
with them, was placed in tho next pine box al thcr
side 1t discovered that in the agoneS OF death
She had given birth to another child which was born
and consumed in the flames.
On the body OF man, whose head ana shouf
ders showed nothing but the skull and bones por
ton CT the clothing was but slightly scorched and
I'm ons of ,be rockets was found roll Of bills amount
ing 10 SIS and lottery ticket. The remains were
Identified as those of Joseph Levine, Sixty
two years old, who worked in the shOp o.
his son, Henry LEVINE. a fifth body, less badly
burned, Identified as that of Morris schwartz
Russian Pole, tlrty-siX years old. Of No, 81 Lud-
low-st.
The distracted friends who were admitted to the
Morrue were overcome by these terrible views. When
the colinlds wero lifted they stared vacany at the
frighnul sight and rctreated several oil the women
WHO were searching FOR husbands, Insisted on being
shown other bodies with the faint hope of recognition
Then they weak and faint, and had TO be car
rled from the place. rTheie case OF identtca-
ton during the evening after the bodies had reached
the Morgue, those that were identified having been
recognized by relatives from the places at which they
found in the building.
Among those who came to inquire for the missing
was Harris Crasbock young Pole, who was In search
of Minnie Mycrsin, girl of eighteen. She had been
employed in the building and had not returned TO hei
home No IL LuGlow-st. Grasbech was engaged &c
MARI, her. and when he TO her home In the even
ing he learned Of the fire, The wife of Jacob Fein
berg of No 90 Forsyth-st., walked with her friends
from hor home TO tho hospital Hor husband worked
on the third floor of 10 burned building making but
ton holes Nothing known of him at the hospital
The woman tainted In the office and had TO be takeI
into one of the wards for treatment She said tina
she had four small children.
The wife and relatives Of Solomon Scheyerspoon
of No. rs Ludlow-st, were among the inquirers To-
those who missing. Reuben LEVINE
tailor Of No. 81 suffolkst, employed
In the building that burned had not been heard
from last night. George Levine, telegraph OPP
orator, and the son of William Levine, whose body
was identified among the dead, came to the hosplta
not knowing the fate of bis father having Just learned
Of the disaster. He had been at the house OF
relative, where the entire family were TO have met a.
a christening last night ave were to have good
time onight,' he said, "but 1t is bad night ioi
us.n
AT TIE OTHER HOSPITALS
Three victims of the fire werc takon TO Gouverncui
. Hospital. Their names wero Asias spunds talior
tweniyseveD years Of age, living in Ctristlest'
phiip Turlorte age thirty five tailor, No.13 Delaney