The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-24
This Is in Accordance With the
Best Estimates.
THE BUILDING FLIMSY.
A Ladder Thrust Through a
Brick Wall.
M ORE P!TIFUL SCENES,

or the Fircmen-Crowds visit tn. scene
or the Disaster Spectators on the
Roofs-frlends md Relative. Waiting
10 Identity the Bodics-Sccnes ut the
MOrguc AT tho Police station Esti.
mates OF the Total I.o.s OF LIfe-I.ist or
Those Reported Missing nodic. re.
covered During the Day Electric Lights
Pct UP FOE Night Work Tho Hear
Wall or the Taylor building Torn Down
by the FIremen-lntervicws with the
Husband or the Owner OF the BuildIuR
and With the Supervising Architect,
The exact loss Of life In tho Park place dIsas.
ter of Saturday afternoon has not yet been
ascertainod.
According to tho best information oh aim
able. 1t was estimated that the total number
OF killed would be more than a hundred. Up
to midnight last night sixteen bodies had been
recovered from the ruins The list OF missing
now numbers more than hundred.
Tho gangs OF Italians employed on the
authority OF Inspector Williams on Saturday
night have been kept constantly at work re-
moving tho debris, but the ruin was so COM
plete and the mass OF bricks. beams. and iron
was so tangled and damned together. and 50
pinned down by the weight OF ponderous
printing presses that progress was necessarily
slow and uncertain. The Italians wo, ked un.
dor the supervision OF the firemen Two truck
companies were kept at work all the time.
At O'Clock yesterday morning the tired mon
who had worked all night we're relieved bya
new detail. The mon Of 10 truck. who bore
such conspicuous part In the hard Tight of
Saturday. were again called upon yesterday
morning to resume tho work Of digging away
the wreck.
The police reserves. who had been called out
from all the near stations ON Saturday after-
noon. and who had been engaged moro or less
busily on tho fire line. were relieved and theiI
places taken by special detail from the re-
serves OF uptown stationa
The ever-changing crowd which gathered
outside the IRE lines within FIVE minutes after
the building fell has stood its ground ever
since. 1t has taken up its position. and until
tho wreck is entirely cleared away and the last
body recovered. the crowd OF watchers will
stand anxiously. curiously. idly. out-ide the
fire lines. sureinR in now and then. and driven
back by the police only to wait few minutes
and try 1t again.
1t is fuctuating crowd. As tho night Of
Saturday wore on those who had been waiting,
prompted only by that mysterious. morbid
curiosity which attracts people to tho scene OF
dissster. grew tired and won't away. They left
only those tireless watchers who sat with
cold fear gripping at their hearts. waiting
for what the tearing away OF the ruins
might disclose. There were many OF those
waiting ones. Tho news OF tho awful disaster
had been spread with all the speed Ill news
commands. From far and near tho watchers
had come. Some OF them had relatives In the
building when it fell Others had friends who
worked there. Still others had friends or
relatives whose places Of business were nssr
the death trap. and who got their midday
meal In the little restaurant
Those who were permitted to 90 inside the
fire lines stood or sat on tho piles OF brick ald
watched the slow Italians rs they went through
the motions OF working. They formed In line
from the edge Of the ruin to the piles OF debris
and passed from man to man brick or two ct
time. II some sympathetic onlooker volun.
TERED to help without pay he was hustled back
outside the Ere lines. Ono man who saw what
little progress was making offered 10 bring IN
hundred volunteers. who would work al
night under tho direction OF the nremen and
who would ask no pay or reward.
Put that man outside the lines" was the
answer to his offer.
Two or three gasoline lamps furnished LIGHT
for the Italians to work by. And whenever Q
body was recovered. 1t was placed in It's rude
pine coffin and set down for a few minutes
under one OF the lamps Then those inside the
lines gathered around the coffin and spccu.
lated as 10 tho identity OF the body before Il
was taken AWAY IN the dead wagon
Whenever any one who had boon inside the
fire lines left the scene ne WAS acoosted By
dozens OF people who stood at the ropes and
waited for the little bits Of information which
they could CLEAN In such way. Those people
all had friends or relatives who, they feared.
were among tho victims. They were all pre-
pared In ono way or another to Identify the
bodies for viii h they were looking. Peculi.
arties Of tho teeth were commonsst; some.
thug about no clothing, tho shoes. keys and
dozen things were mentioned.
INEFFICIENT POLICE.
When morning dawned the crowd began 70
grow again. swelled by those who looked On
simply from curiosity. All day long people
flocked into Park place. trying 10 get glimpse
OF the place. When they were stopped at Col.
lego place on the east they ran around int
Greenwich street on the west and tried to get
nearer Ropes had been stretched and they were
effective In q measure. But It was evident
to even a casual observer that the
police were either very careless or very partial.
Scores Of mon were inside OF tho lines who had
no sign OF a badge. The baig, of the Now
York Fhe Commissioners WAS In minority.
Eyery conceivable sort ~ badge WAS worn.
Men we're let insd, The lines who wore the
mmon licensed reldl"r, badge. Cne man
with the old brass badge OF II patrol captain
got inside without any trouble, and any one
who could mako any sort OF blum at all hAl
little trouble.
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