Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-26
THE PRoHTB's.

iowa JODlght. ana VIII recur Thur.
day.
THE PRoHIE's.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug. 2l- Tn
Prohibition state convention openc
here this morning with 403 del,
gates present, II. r. Ames W.
selected as perm lnent chairman. II
his speach he denounced the Lallo
reform law because IL discrimiu ltcc
against the prohibition party.
THE NEW YORK DISASTER.
New YORK, Aug. 28.-From mid
night until daylight the scenes wit
messed 10y watchers at the ruins o
the fatal fire confirm the belief tina
the greater number of victims vii
he found under the cen,er of th,
debris, where the full weight Of IN,
building fell. During the night th,
Italians left at the work digging fol
bodiesevery now aud then unearihed
parts Of human beings, all In a yer,
decomposed state. Legs, arms, feet,
and, In one or two instances, heads
We're found and placed carefully
away with any parts Of clothiig
that may have been found near the
disaster, for the purpose of Identify
ing, If possible.
when darkness set in, Captain
Allalre, of the third precinct, made
a complete change in the manage.
ment of his department by driving
a number Of people out of the fire
limits who had no business there
Foreman Farley, Of truck 10, took
charge of the recovery OF bodies,
and DR.. King B. Page, of 20 East
Twenty-hrst street, voluntarily Of
fered his assistance, assisted by Mr..
Quigg, Of the health office. At 8
O'Clock woman's body was discov-
cred. 1t was found lying underneath
a heavy press with only the face
exposed. 1t was found impossible
to remove it until the press was lifted.
Farley directed the twenty Italians
under his command So good humor
edly that they seemed to work with
more energy and spirit than any
previous gang, beside some unknown
philanthropist had placed at the dis
posal of the laborers and officers a
plentiful supply of coffee, sand
wlches and tobacco, so their inner
man was replenished. They went
at it wei.
At midnight the stencil ema uating
from the place where the cellar form.
erly was, was so sickening that Ser
geant Hawley expressed IL rs his
opinion that ghastly revelations
would be brought to light there, for
It Is supposed to be the bodies of
twenty women who were In the
iressing room at the time of the dis
lster preparatory to leaving for
lome, aud none of whom have been
heard from since, AT $40 one more
'ody was found, that of mau ter
IDLY mangled lying iu the shadow
IT huge printing press. Shortly
.fter that another. 1t was "a man
hirty years of age, li5 pounds
weight and five feet ten inches high.
All these bodies were sent to the
norgue. BY this time the stencil
vas almost unbearable and as the
lay dawnt d the greater light reveal
d four more bodies anatomically
distorted and mangled TO such a
that the limbs and trunks
( the bodies seem to he separated
nd heaped one upon the ether.
Another body was found ia a posi-.
Ion to recover, but when lifted from
he dirt was found to be the charred
Drpse of dlsemboweled man be-
ond recognition. Several almost
legible addresses found In one of !
is pockets were deciphered as
'oodbury d Co., IL South street,
oston. The Italians were relieved /.
1880 by a gang of longshoresmen,
ded by firemen from truck COM
my. q
Yesterday it is stated that the cat.
'trophe was thought to have been
fused by nn explosion of naptha
some other explosive matter ! !
The insurance companies inter- It
ted in the Park place disaster held U
meeting yesterday and appointed {
committee 10 make an exhaustive +"
qulry into the the causes ofth cal U
nifty. The committee was in- Il
'uctcd not 10 admit any liability. 3
AT late hour last night the total p
lmber of bodies eXhumed from 81
G debris had reached flny-two. "
veral more have been identified. e'
At 1880 this morning sixty bodies II
d been recovered from the ruins p'
the Taylor building.
At l:S0 this afternoon work was
'pped, and the announcement was Il
.de that there were no more bod II
In the ruins. The police have W
zen the number of the dead taken Sc
ms siSty.one In all, oflhcse thirty. 81
zee are identified. te
CHEAP LABoRERs WANTED. III
'AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2G.- VI
'eph Marsden, u member Of the M
waiian legislature, arrived here pa
the China steamer, having spent bu
ne time in India, China aud the
lllipines, investigating the labor
rket in the interest of the sugar ne