New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-25
THE MORGUE AND ITS HORRORS
RELATIVES SEEK FOR THEIR LOVED ONES.
SEVERAL OF THE BODIES IDENTIFIED. MOST OF
THEM BY THEIR CLOTHING, THE coRPsEs

THEN BY THEIR CLOTHING, THE CohrsHS
BEING so BADLY MUTILATED.
Thu little red building at the foot OF East I"oi,"
sixth-st the Morgue, always dreadiu pieN., =.
now become a scene Of such horror ana misery M
Grains the nerves OF nearly all who arc cempeeo !" 10
main In 1t. Death In its most terrible FORM loeO 80
eve everywhere the very air Is tainted, anu - -,
.au and post of the building reeks Win II"
nen can stay long in the dmy hsnVou' 49,
ventrated room where the dead lie In ions w
zach poor, disngured corpse lies In rouen' q.
nainted pine coffin with the Id lalo f0"'eiS a.1,,v
-Four Pickering gas jets illuminate the soon 49,
and serve 10 show the faces OF inc ee" t.,y
who are seeking for their lost ones - e-oro
minutes Yesterday wall would suddenly come IL -
sooa silent group that had gathered aoout ooi'-'
onA MANY who came 20 look for friends OF roI~
haS To be led out before their search was 0O.f -
49," an Adv 1ong men. bowed down and dragging tnsn'
selves YEARLY along. and women "iVN - - 49,,
with weeping came TO the Morgue' ana "'~| 80
the avful row OF bodies, fearing 70 hno " n 49,
hos come for one poor mother, WIN ~ -
"a grief and lifelong toll in her I@Ne' -,
-. hands folded on the bench before the oui"Hs'
81. did not weep: her eyes looked stissne s'
INT she saw nothing of what she wac I0 ~. IA
ror thouchts were with her deso' WYNN w -,
tound inside so she sat- quite stliL i0r ,oAs 80
,rben she got up slowly and crept away ~ W
home. - ,,jta oame in the
freddie"
= h,+ conId not bear the sight OF the oooles'
stn NOD passonately and said that her hule 'o"
un+h old baby was waiting for Its htuer d. "s~e
=, those who are lost are poor people ana those
,ho come 10 look are chiefly people VINO nav Low
hard struggle through life. They come " So 80 -
broken-hearted inexpressby toucihns ss, ,".n- =,
.SI,Dc voices ask for their dead The Keepers I"
o.. most considerate when the hardening
V .. .hoir calling Is remembered, ana uest une
-. os gently as possible. But there are nisliS'
-, dsod and they rush the callers> through anoy
o. .ho eoor IN the Office lie number Of patches Vi
.,otb vatersoaked chsrred and Stained "l'i UioOu
1Dev have been cut from the CLONES Oh tn'Se WIN ~
not be identified otherwise or+
VIVIAN the condition .of the air inside dyives one OUT
. - .bs contrast makes the interior seem addi-
.nau sa Inside is the wet, shiny floor, with carrier
80 q, crimson here and there, and WIN tile eai
ughts nickerng In a ghasuy way. ou'siuo' Soo -
q t,se and bright with wind and sum- anu e"Of.
distance out are handsome pleasure yaonts NHs a.
anchor with gay steam launches and gigs passing f""'
one TO the other. $1,000 ~ me Norcue
80 wears Not since she July riots, when elghty'
-. r bronaht there or the westfeld and Seawanhaha
disasters. has the present number been eoualeo IA
Though three wears ago the EhEsbeu~s' nre o""'e
many deaths. .,,,,r. nan.
Manv people came yesterday to look for missing peo
MIA whose names had not been previously repor1e0'
Among
B31 East Thirty. third-st, where ne hVeo WIZ sue
,,s,s, The reople who were looking for him also
,sked for Thomas Burns who they said, lived In tne
same place. -s4
Mrs Collins Of No 40 East Thirty second 81,
looked for her son Thomas seventeen years oiu' VIM
worked in some printin gshop in Park Place. the n'e
Of which she could not remember. He has not Oeeli
home since Saturday morning she had to be led OUT
before hsr search was finished. Michael Feely came 10
search for his nephew James McRennas district mes
tenger-boy OF Secondave., who had been sent
10 the wrecked building five minutes before u ien'
He has not been seen since.
Three women looked for Thomas Murray black
smith who lived In VaIlckst, and is supposed 10 nave
been in the restaurant. They also said that man
NAMED Munson was missing. Lizzie Campbell looked
for her cousin. Mary Dishman, who is twenty -deht
years cid. and employed ae bookbmder by IJehler
4 Mass She lived at No 100 Presidentst, Brook
tvn with her aunt and her father has been vainly
searching for her. An elderly couple looked for ROD
err II. Marks Of No. 500 Lafayeie-ave, Brooklyn
They thought that they recognized pieces Of doth from
one of the bodies, and went to make sure that
they were correct.
Among the unidentified is stin the body Of the man
who was found in the street, and who was brought TO
the Morgue among the first four bodies on SATURDAY
hight The body of the boy which was sdentlneo a.
mat of Jacob Heidenrich on Sunday, is still at the
Moreue HIS mother to-day that it is not her boy
~~~ ~~~N
and-eighth ST, where they live, made mistake when
he said the body was that Of her son.
Another incorrect Identification was that OF Abrs-
ham perschopsh. He is still among the missing his
mother thought she recognized body as ms on sun
ov night Int Yesterday morning his father saw the
body and declared that it not that OF his Sod
one Of the bodies brought In yesterday morning "aS
Identified that Of Conrad schmidt VINO "~S hies'o
& Maass's foreman. He identified by his brother
William schmidt Of No. 2,134 Atlaptc'ave.' BROOK
yn An undertaken called for the body yesterday and
win bury it in the Lutheran Cemetery
p Welbacker, of No. % ogden-ave.. Jersey CITY,
identified another one Of the dead who were brought In
Yesterday as John steinkey. fortyone years Old OF
No 393 NelsOnav Jersey City. He was GERMAN
and leaves family. His occupation was that OF stone
grinder for Lieber q Meass. He was nlgntrulH
burned and was recognized by his underwear and
shoes An undertake. called for the body. and it will
be buried in Flower Hill Cemetery.
Al u n the city heafse arrived with six cofnns.
containing five women and one man. The relatives
and friends crowded arou1d the bodies were carried
In and the scene dreadful one Almost at once
Iottie ilem was recognized by her brother. samuel
Helm. OF No. 25 Avenue c. She was forewoman In
RoseIfeld & Co.'S place. and lived with her father
and brothers at that address Her old father has been
at the ruins caly, waiting silently till his daughter
shoud be found She was recognized by her chain
and locket Her bracelets were gone. The dead girl
was twenty-five years old.
Leo Roscnfeld. Of No 1903 East Eighty -frst-st
identified another body as that Of Mary Denleip. Of
No As East Ninth-st. He positive Of 1t. but
sfterva ard john ". Chuver, OF No 3i3 West Twenty
eigth-st recognized II the body Of Mary Williams.
Of No 243 Chcrry-st. Pieces of cloth found on the
BODY exactly matched that brought by him. Mary
Williams was sixteen years old and lived at No. 243
Cherry-st with her parents. She had worked for
Resented & Co.
Leo ROsenfeld also recognized Maggie Quinn among
the dead. she lived at No. 244 Cherry-st was born
in this city, and was eighteen years old She en-
plcyed by Resented Co.
At 5 O'Clock yesterday afternoon occurred
that made even the hardened employees at the Morgue
turn away Glare L. Middleton in to look for
his son. Albert +. Middleton. He looked silently at
one manned shape after another. I'LL suddenly his
hr.os rauo nd he had held nm as