The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-25
FIFTY ARE DEAD.
Now Believed That This Estimate
ofthe Number of Victims
OF THE new, YORK DISASTER
Is Not Too High-.Thc Work ofRccov.
erIng Bodies still Goes on---A Num-
Der Found Yesterday.-.An Italian
Caught Robbing Body and Mar
rowly Escapes Being Lynched.

NEW IoRK, Aug. A.-Ihe work ot
delying for the dead in the ruins on
Park Place continued uninterrupted
through the night, except at the times
when the rain poured downin such tor
rents as to render labor beneath 1t i'm
possible. At 1926 o'clock another body
had been found. 1t was that OF man,
and lay beside the tangle OF presses at
No. Z. 1t was terribly burned and un-
recognizable. i,
At7:4O o'clock this morning second
body was found, also that OF man,
near the spot where the first was dis.
covered. Five minutes later third
body OF man was found in nearly the
same place. Hardly had this been done
when the body OF q another man was
found, but 1t lay beneath heavy press
and derrick had to be used to hoist
the press, SO as take the body from the
ruins. Almost simultaneously the dis
covery Of fifth body-making twenty
one in all-was made among the brick
and paper at No. "a. 1t was that OF u
large man but the face was not visible,
it was like the others exhumed un-
recognizable. One of the bodies re-
covered this morning is believed to be
that Of John Steinke, OF Hoboken.
At 10 o'clock, the body OF another
young man or boy was found, almost
directly beneath the spot from which
the last body had been removed. It
was identified as that OF Ernst II. Shad-
dock, OF Brooklyn, who was employed
by Leibler & Mass. He was IL years
| old
Just before the two last bodies were
taken from the ruins crowd OF people
standing on the steps of the building
opposite the wreck saw one of the
Italians working in the ruins stoop over
the body of one OF the victims and take
something out Of the vest pocket. They
shouted to the police, and boy ran
across the street and told policeman
Sweeney, of the tenth precinct, who
arrested the Italian. He was com
PEELED to show what he had in
his pockets and the first
thing lie pulled out was silver watch
which he admitted he had "picked up"
He was taken to the second precinct
station house followed by mob, many
of whom shouted Lynch him, lynch
him." From the police station the 1tal-
ian was taken to tue Tombs police court.
There he gave his name as Rosso Sd
vono. He said he Intended to give the
watch to his boss. lie was held for
trial.
J., BY ynoon the odoro burned bodies.be-
came painfully offensive and Doctors
Dolph and Miller, OF the health board,
were sent to disinfect the ruins, and
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Superintendent Brady and force OF
deputies went to the ruins and began q
thorough investigation OF the causes OF
the accident. 1t was learned positively
that there was no boiler in the building
and that the heavy photographic presses
were not working when the accident oc-
Cured. The theory that the disaster
was duo to the faulty construction Of
the building is gaining strength. Upto
noon the official account OF the number
of bodies taken from the ruins was
twenty-thrce. At that hour there were
two more bodies visible, butthey had not
vet been dug out. These bring the
number OF bodies actually found up to
twenty-five.
FIFTY DEAD.
So far only the edge of the ruins has
been searched. Down beneath the CEN
ter of the buildings are probably the
graves of the great majority OF those
Who have persisted.
The firemen, who have heard all sorts
OF stories as to the number OF persons
in the buildings when they fell, believe
that at least fifty bodies are still under
the debris. Deputy Fire Chief Reilly is
of that opinion, and he has made care
full calculations from the numerous and
contradictory reports submitted to him.
II the presses can be got out to-day it is
likely that all the brick and timber can
be removed by tomorrow afternoon and
all the bodies recovered by that rime.
Six more bodies were found in the
ruins at o'clock. The work Of taking
them out OF the debris was completed
at 3:25, when it was learned that five
OF the bodies were those of women or
girls, and one OF them that OF boy.
One OF the bodies was identified US that
OF Lottie Helm, twenty-five years old,
who worked with Liebler & Mas; an
other as that OF Maggie Quinn, about
twenty years old, and third that Of
Mamie Williams, sixteen years old. The
two first named were press girls.
District Attorney Nichols is consider
ing the question OF indicting the person
or persons responsible for the disaster.
After a long consultation with his chief
assistant, ex.Judge Bedford, he placed
the case in tho hands OF the assistant
district attorney
CAUSE OF TIE ACCIDENT.
At 8 o'clock, tho next body was
brought out from the basement Of No.
70. It proved to be the body man,
burned beyond recognition. at $3.50
o'clock another body, that OF a young