The Lamar register., 1891-08-29
THE NEW YORK HORROR.
Terrible Scenes at the Site of the
Fallen Building.

Fallen Building.
A New York dispatch dated the
25th gives details Of the work OF recover
! ing bodies from the ruins of the building
that fell last Saturday.
Up to lo:l5 o'clock three of the twelve
printing presses had been removed. The
foreman decided that il was impossible 10
get the great iron machinery out entire,
SO he set his men to work 10 break them
up with sledge hammers. This change In
the plan will probably result in much
quicker work in removing the debris,
Still it will probably take fOrty-eight
hours to reach the cellars and
sub-cellars, where it is supposed most OF
the dead are.
AT about 1880 o'clock the workmeu re
moved timbers which disclosed two more
bodies, one on the site of No ~ Park
Place, the other at No. "A. The former
was believed to be chat Of woman
These could not be taken out on account
OF the pressure Of heavy machinery with
out doing violence to the bodies so that
efforts of the laborers were directed dur
ing the remainder Of the morning to the
task of hauling away the heavy obstrue-
tions.
At 1O:45 o'clock a derby hat was pulled
out from a network Of beams. Beneath
it two or three bodies were seen. They
Cannot be reached until the great mass Of
iron work is removed.
Clerk Bandelbaum Of the coroner's
office, who has made careful inyestiga-
Ton, at Il o'clock said there were not less
than twenty persons under Peterson's
restaurant
The back wall, which is stil standing,
grows more threatening. The fremen
fear that when the iron work is removed
the wall may fall in. 1t was in almost
tottering condition at noon and the work
wen were keeping sharp lookout
Superintendent Brady OF the depart
ment Of buildings stated that he visited
the scene of the PARK Place disaster, and
from what he could learn he was OF tue
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 buildings were
oyerweighted and had direct evidence 10
that effect
The thirteen insurance companies inter
ested in the Park Place disaster held
to-day in the office OF the board OF fire un-
derwriters and appointed a committee 10
make an exhaustive inquiry into the cause
of the calamity.
The committee is instructed not to admit
any liability,
At 5 40 another bruised form was found.
As the coroner stepped up to view it as it
was being raised by the nreueu, the head
dropped OF and disappeared in the black
depths below. The body was that Of a
young girl about Il years old. At this
time three mangled forms we're IL sight
These three, and also another, were taken
out by 10 o'clock, making forty eight vic
Tins recovered. The last four bodies re.
covered were those Of men.
Two more bodies were taken from the
ruins at Il O'Clock, bringing the total mum
Der recovered up to fifty. Another Of the
Italian laborers was detected to night
searching a coat which he found il the
ruins. He was hustled OF to jail at double
quick speed.
At 30 this morning two more bodies
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viii not be able TO remove them FOR sew
eral hours, as they are wodged with tim
bers- This makes nifty TWO bodies thus
far discovered in the ruins. Twenty one
bodies were at the morgue at : a. m, six
teen of which were unidentified.
ROssi SavariE0, the Italian LaoOrer
caught robbing the Park Place body yes
terday, was sent to the peuitentiary for
six months at Special Sessions Court to
day.