Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-25
rHE CoLLAPsEp. BUILDING
Forty-two Boiie. Tsken From the kusnso
Baiiding and Eighty Persons SIN Missins.

Nrw YORK. August 2o.-A CLOCK sn1
morning forty-two bodies had been taken from
the ruins of the collapsed building on Psrk
place. This leaves about eighty persons ssli
missing and unaccounsed for. From midnight
until daylight the scenes witnessed by the
watchers a; the ruins Of the fatal fre on PARK
place confirm the belief that the greater num-
be- OF the victims will be found under the CEN
ter Of the debris. where the full weight OF the
building fell During the night The Italians
who were left At the work Of digging for bodies
every nov and again unearthed parts Of human
beings, all in a very decomposed state. Legs.
arms. feet and IN one or two instances heads
found and placed carefully away with
any parts of clothing that may have been found
near them FOR the purpose OF identifying, "
possible.
REFRESHMENTS FOR THE woRKERa
When darkness set in last night Capt. Ailacs
Of the third precinct made a complete change
in tie management Of his department by driving
a number of people out Of the fire lines who
had no business there. Foreman Farley OF
truck Is took charge OF the recovery Of bodies
and Dr. King H. Page. East 22d street volun-
tarily rendered his services coroncrs
representative, assisted by Mr.. Ouig OF
the coroner's Office. At O'Clock last
night the thirty-fifth BODY was die
covered. II was found lying underneath .
heavy press with only the face exposed. Il vss
found impossible 20 remove 10 until the
press had been lifted. Foreman Farley d.
rected the twenty Italians under his com
seemed TO work with more energy and spirit
than any previous gang. Besides some un-
known philanthropist had placed at the dis
posal OF the entire night force. officers and
all, plentiful supply of coffee. cakes, sand-
wiches tobacco and cigars. that with their
Inner man" replcnished they went at work
with will AT midnight the stencil emanating
from the place where the cellar formerly Was
was SO sickening that Sergt Hawley expressed
ii as his opinion most ghsstly revelations
would yet be brought TO light there, where IL Ia
supposed the bodies Of tsenty women are who
were in their dressing room at the time OF the
| disaster preparatory to having for home, and
none Of whom have been heard Of since.
THE STENCIL uNBEARABLr
Up to $40 only one more body had been
found-that Of man terribly mangled. lying
in the shadow of huge printing press Shortly
after that the thirty y-seventh body was found.
! Ii Was that Of a man about thirty years OF age
| and las pounds weight and five feet ten inches
! high. All these bodies were sent TO the morgue.
| BY this time the stencil almost unbearable
and as day dawned the greater light revealed
four moro bodies anatomicslly distorted and
mangled to such condition that the limbs and
| trunks o. the bodies seemed TO be separated and
heaped mercilessly one upon the other. AZ
| 5:46 the disombowelod body of q man Was
| found. He unrecogniZable. At am.
| thirtv-eight bodies had been taken out and four
more were in sight in the ruins.
The body of Frederick ". Trippe, proprietor
| of the drug store at No. IS Park place, was
| found at 3:f5 O'Clock. IL so badly mangled
and burned that IL at first impossible to
| tell whether il was that OF a man or woman
Finally friends of Mr.. Trippe recognized .
| diamond ring on his finger aud a gold watch
with the initials IF. W. T." on it that was
found beside the body Mr.. Trippe was forty
| nine years old and lived at l2s West list street
TIRE CELLARS NOT YET UNCOVERED.
Up to lo:l5 O'Clock three Of the printing
| pres bad been removed. The foreman de-
cided that it was impossible to get the great
iron machinery out entire, 80 he set his men
TO work to break them up with sledge ham,
mers.
This change in the plan will probably result
| in much quicker work in removing the debrfs-
Still it win take probably forty-eight hours to
reach the cellars and sub-celars, where 1t u
| supposed most Of the dead are.
| Al about l0:S0 o o'clock the workmen removed
| timbers which disclosed two more bodies, one
| on the site of No 20 lark place, the other st
| No. "a. The former is believed TO be that Of .
| woman.
| These could not be taken out on account Of
the pressure Of heavy machinery without do
ing violence TO the bodies. so the efforts OF the
/ laborers we're directed during the remainder of
| the morning to the ta.k OF hauling away the
| heavy distractions. At i0i5 O'Clock derby
hat was pulled out from a net work OF beams.
Beneath it tao.or three bodies were seen.
They cannot be reached until a great mass OF
ironwork IL removed. Clerk Mandelbaam ot
the coroner's Office. who has made careful in
vestigation. said at ii clock that there were
not less than twenty persons buried under
Petersons restaurant
The back wall. which is still standing. grows
| more threatening. The firemen fear that whes
| the iron work is removed the wall may fall in.
| 1t was in almost n tottering condition at noon
and the workmen were keeping q sharp lookout.
Before noon Capt Eakins said that IL the
| wall did not fall the work of removing the
| presses would be far advanced that the
bodies beneath the sidewalk, II there were any.
could be easily reached He thought there
\ were fifty corrses in the cellars.
That would make a total Of ninety, This &C.
innate may be above or below the right num-
ber. but considering the number Of missing OF
whom nothing has been heard the list
of killed is not likely TO fall far below ninety.
especially ms IL may happen that persons living
out of town. who have not been reported miss-
ing, may have been IN the restaurant
SAID TO BE CAUSED BY AN Explosion.
4 Superintendent Brady of the department Of
buildings stated this afternoon that he visited
the scene of the Park place disaster, and from
| what he could learn he was Of the opinion that
! the catastrophe was caused by an EXPLOSION OF
nGptha OF some other explosive matter.
lie wac satisfied that the upper floors Of the
I; building were overweighted, and had direc,
4 evidence TO that effect
The thirteen insurance companies Interested
| in the Park place disaster held a meeting to-
| day in the oiice OF the board OF fire under
| writers and appointed a committee TO make az
exhaustive inquiry into the causes VI the
l calamity.
The committee are instructed not TO admit
any liability.
| Two ,aore bodies we're identified at the morgue
this morning. They were those of Adam Dah-
| rem, aged fourteen. and Abraham Dershopakie.
! aged seventeen. The bodies not iaenti6ed be-
| fore Thursday will be buried in Potter's 6eld.