The morning call., 1891-08-25
THIRTY-PIYE BODIES
Removing the Dead From the
Park Place Ruins.
The Total Number Reported Missing Placed
at Eishty-eisht.
Full List Of the Identified ViCtimS-SpeCu-
latiOnS as 10 The Cause Of
the Accident.
Epecial to THE MORNING CALI.

New YORK, Aug. 2i.-The scene OF the
Park Place disaster presents curious con-
trasts Just outside the ropes keeping back
the throngs, the busy pulse of city life beats
| as ordinarily, though life and death are
close together. The character of the crowd
has changed from yesterday. 1t changes
all the time. 1t is made up of curiosity
seekers. Only very small portion is vi
tally interested in what goes on within the
ropes. The fathers, mothers, husbands and
wives of those who may be underneath the
black ruins have long ago given up any
hope. The crowd follows closely the move
ments of those working inside. Now and
again the black morgue- wagon or an under =
takers cart drives through the crowd and
the people stare to get view of its contents
and all the time the people are edging up
nearer. and then the police with drawn
clubs drive the crowd back with threats
and still the digging goes on inside.
The work of delving for the dead con-
tinued throughout the night, during which
fIve bodies were found, making total of
twenty-four victims of the awful explosion
recovered
The body of Ernest H Shaddock of
blVVhiS MAS luuIlu. An ILdlldH W0rklug
IN the ruins was seen to take something
from the body of thesvictim. and a silver
watch was found upon the Italian, which
he admitted taking. The police took him
to the station, and on his way he Darrowly
escaped lynchng. He has been held for
trial.
AT the Morgue there is a constant stream
OF people looking for their friends or rela-
tiyes among the dead.
Six more bodies were found in the ruins
at o'clock. five of which bodies were
women or girls and one that Of a boy,
Three were identified by friends.
District Attorney Nichols is considering
the question OF indicting the person or per-
sons responsible for the disaster. After a
long consultation with his chief assistant.
eX-Judge Bedford, he placed the case in the
hands of Assistant District Attorney Town
send
BY o'clock two more bodies had been
recovered.
The odor of decompOsing flesh that arises
from the ruins is becoming almost unbear
able, and disiufectants seem to produce but
little effect.
City Chamberlain Train, whose mother
owned the wrecked building, said to-day,
regarding its condition: at was built in
1872, and acquired BY ny mother in 1887
I've always understood that it was well
constructed and had never been condemned,
nor was 1t considered unsafe. Regarding the
claim that the stock of material and heavy
presses on tie upper nO0rS caused 1t to col
lapse, there is nothing in it. 1t has always
been used for the same purpose that it was
used Tor at the time of the fire. From what
| have been able to learn, think the cause
OF the accident was fire. followed by an ex-
plOsi0n."
man who has been engaged for thirty
hVe years in placing printing machinery in
position said to-day: The presses of Ellis
" Mcdonald and Leibler & Mas were so
placed that the vibration ran with the
beams and rafterS. and the eight-nch rest
ng-place was insufficient to support the
enormous weight on it. On the third floor
alone stood nearly forty tons of machinery"
Louis RoSenfeld, proprietor of the paint
store at 10 Park place, has been missing
since shortly after the disaster, and his rela-
nves think the fearful scenes he witnessed
after the crash came unsettled his mind,
and he strayed away. They have so re-
ported to the police.
Two more bodies were recovered at II
o'clock tonight, but little progress was
made IN the work Of excavation. At mid
night total Of thirty-four bodies had been
recovered. OF these twenty are identified.
Inc total number reported missing is eighty
eight.
The full list of identified bodies is as fol-
lows: Leonard Cole, John Gibbs. Sarah
Ann Hargney, Michael Sattery, Andrew s.
Peterson, George Low. Gustav Zskler
Jacob Heidenrich, Charles Breither, Otto
Walscr, Frank Hach, Abraham Derschopki.
Gustav Steiner, John Steinke, Edward
Shaddoek. Maggie Quinn, L1ttie Helm,
Mamie Williams. Mary Deinlein. Conra
NEW YORK, Aug. PSI 80 A. M.-Another
unknown body has just been found in the
ruins,