Telegram-herald., 1891-08-26
DIGGING FOR THI DEAD
Battered Human Forms Taken Our
Of the Wreck.
CHaSILY SCENES ABOUT TIE RUNS
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NEW YoRs. Aug. 25.-From midnight
until the city awoks TO its business
life the scenes witnessed by the
watchers at the fatal IRE on Park
place proved that the worst fears
Is 10 the extcnt OF the awful
catastrophe were 70 be fully real
ized The bodies that were recovered
during that time and the horrible pos
sibllitles that lurk in the mis-
shapen shadowy vision of human
forms crushed and jammed amid
the bulk of machinery and weighty
timbers, assured the police and fire.
men that the wsrst evidence is
yet to come. The greater number Of
the unfortunate victims viii be
found underneath the debris yet
10 be removed No such mangled re-
mains of humanity have been re-
covered during the search rs the spec
linens shown during the night Bodies
were mutilated beyond all recogni-
tion and fearful to look upon; even
fremen turned away weakened bv the
sight Twenty bodies have been iden-
titled, and there are eighteen unidenti-
fed at the morgue, and four bodies are
in sight In the ruins, thus making
forty-two so far sevea,ed.
Clerk MandelbauIn, OF the coroners
Office, who has made a careful investi-
CATION, said at Ii o'clock that there
were not less than twenty persons
buried under Peterson's restaurant.
The back wall, which is still standing,
grows more threatening. The fremen
fear that when the ironwork is removed
the wall may fall in. II was in almost
q tottering condition at noon, and the
workmen were keeping sharp lookout.
Before noon Capt. Eakins said that if
the wall did not fall the work of remov-
ing the presses would be SO far advanced
that the bodies beneath the side
walk, if there were any. could be easi-
ly reached. He thought there were
fifty corpses in the cellars. That would
make a total of ninety. This estimate
may be above or below the
right number. but, considering
the number OF missing of
whom nothing has been heard,
the list of killed is not likely to fall
far below ninety, especially as it may
happen that persons living out G.
missing, may have been in the restau-
rant.
Superintendent Brady, of the depart
ment Of buildings. stated tina: he visited
the scene of the Park place disaster,
and from what he could learn lie was
of the opinion that the catastrophe was
caused by an explosion OF naphtha, or
some other explosive matter. He was
satisfied that the upper floors of the
building were overweighted. and had
direct evidence to that effect.
Acting District Attorney Cummings
Bedford appointed Assistant Distric,
Attorney Robert Townsend to act as
counsel TO Coroner Daniel Hanly in the
conduct of the inquest over the victims
J of the disaster. Mr.. Bedford said
his Office desired thorough in.
vestigation before the coroner in
order to ascertain If some one
+ is not amenable to the criminal laws
for the loss Of life. If the liability
could be fixed he believed the crime
would come under section 1913. sub.
division third. Of the penal code, and
that the crime would be manslaughter
in the second degree. The penal code
says that homicide is manslaughter
in the second degree when
committed without . design to effec,
death. Subdivision third, of section
I 1913, says that death caused BY any act
procurement or culpable negligence oi
any person is manslaughter in the sec.
ond degree