The morning call., 1890-05-31
A CHARNEL-ROUsE,


The Ghastly Scenes Witnessed About the
Morgue.
1t was about an hour after the accident when
| the hIst body was taken Into the Morgue. Soon
after others followed, and by O'Clock The thir-
teen were lying IN The room devoted 10 this pur.
! pose.
The apartment is small one and not designed
| 10 accommodate SO large a number of dead as
were crowded into it yesterday
rive OF The bodies, all men, were placed on the
concrete floor, ana those OF Two others were de
posted on the bottom of receiving ceskets.
Inc women were laid upon the marble slabs
The scene was CHASTITY in the extreme, ana all
VINO entered were awed INTO silence by the pres
ence OF so many whose lamps of lie had been
eXIlhguished in twinkling. Several of the
corpses wore the most agonized expression i'm
aginable, and plainly showed that they had moi
given up their lives without great struggle.
This was plainly so in The case of CAPTAIN
Dwyer. Several of the faces bore evidence Of
having been struck by flying articles, but most
OF them were without mark. Other faces wore
the most placid smiles.
PLACID FACES.
Mrs OCOnnOr seemed to have Just dropped off
into deep slumber, and the face of Miss Flor.
ence Austin as well as that of Miss Nellie Kier.
nan bore the most placid expressions Iust a
semDlanee Of smile playing around the corners
Of the mouth OF each.
While the bodies were being taken into the
Morgue and long after large crowd was as
sembled around tile doors endeaYorIug 10 yet a
look al the unfOruuates.
Many persons called to view the remains TO
see II among them they could Identity either
friends OF relatives. Unless they showed good
cause their way was blocked by several police
men, who stood in front TO repress the crowd
his was not quite possible al all lines and the
officers had hard time performing their duty
n aff ia II
almost lnpdssable owing to the crowds which
collected.
Tie search through the clothes OF the corpses
as they lay dripping upon The floor or the slabs
rev a!ed a large amount OF valuables Nearly
all had considerable money, aud several pos
sessed fine watches. In one mans pocket was
found tickets for San Francisco theater Tor last
night another mans pockets revealed letters
from home. and from around the shoulders of a
little girl was taken scapular of the Catholic
Church.
ANXIOUS INQUIRERs.
AS fast as possible anxious inqulrers were ad-
mlted to the place 10 see the ;remalns, and after
they had inspected them and found NJ dear ones
among the dead, they gave way TO the most en-
phatie expression of JOY although nearly all ex-
pressed sorrow for HE dreadful accident.
One poor woman came in and asked frantic
ally 10 be shown corpse that mad preceded her.
The covering was drawn back and the features
OApOSths hacH sIlc tACIdlileu. Dduk IL Is
not he," IN her ferVor nearly faintlng
County Clerk BoaTdman feared that his daurh-
Ter Doite was on the train, and he anxiously
sought the cbanel-hOuSe, but she was not one OF
those laid out there
w. b. Hamilton feared that his wife was on the
train, but she was seen later
General Superintendent j. A Fillmore OF the
Southern Pacific Company, accompanied by a
number OF railroad officials, visited the Morgue
about O'Clock and looked at the remains
at this hour The crowd outside had grown TO a
good sized mob, and 1t became necessary for the
Chief OF Police 10 send squad OF men down to
Keep the restless crowd from charging into the
place.
SISTERS GRIEF.
About o'clock sister Of H. ". Aud was
brought down from tile convent by one Of lie
sisters and identified a body as that OF her
brother. When she saw The remains she began
to cry and the scene which ensued was heart
rending. Her brothers watch tickels for Homo
lulu and other valuabes were given to her and
she was led away, after having given orders to
have the body embalmed and sent to Honolulu on
the next steamer
short time after this 4 sister OF Z. r. Robin
son was admitted into the rear room aud in
stantiy recognized her brother She was greatly
overcome and wept loudly. lady friend who
accompanied her finally prevailed upon her 10
leave. Several Of the clergy OF ST. JoseDIPs
Academy recognized the Misses KIernan and
Mis-. OConnor There was a doubt for some
time as to the identification of the latter lady
but Mr. Powers, manager OF O'Connor, Moffat &
Co.'s store. arrived late in the evening and fully
recognized her.
HEARTLESS DEPUTIES.
The work OF cleaning the bodies was begun
abont O'Clock by the Coroner's assistants
They went about their task in the most unsym-
pathetic way. one being brutaly humorous In his
remarks. The sad calamity bore no sorrow for
them, and they seemed dsincIined to regard
the affair as demanding any sympathy.
They rudey stripped the dead of their clothing
and handled the bodies more as II they were
those OF brutes rather than OF human beings
Alter the clothes were torn of hose was used
10 WASH on the bodies and dirty sponge
THE CROWD ADMITTED
When this brutal process had been completed
the bodies were removed into a room behind the
Coroner's Office and then the clamoring mob ont.
side was admitted. II had mursed its impatience
all day, and when once admitted made a rush for
the room. Almost lhe entire police force was re
qnired TO keep the crowd in anything like order.
The crowd kept pouring in for several hours be.
fore becoming satisfied.
Just before this Coroner Eyers became greatly
excited and moved rapidly up and down his
office, pulling his hair in great rage and pouring
out anathemas upon the heads of newspaper re-
pOrters, whom he styled "newsmongeIs,p and
whose qnestionings received scant reply from
the irascible official.
Two young men called at the Morgue In search
of Miss Walton OF Oakland who was suppOs ed
10 be OH the train.