Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-26
ExHUSIING THE VICTIMS.
The Gloomy Work In the Scene Of the Park
Place Disaster Continued.

The Gloomy Work In the scene Of the Park
Place Disaster Continued.
NEw YonK, August 26.-The work Of delving
for the dead in the ruins Of the TAYLOR building
continued uninterrupted through the night.
The first body taken out after midnight was
discovered at LIS am. II was that Of q man
about five feet seven inches in height, with the
arms and the lower part OF the left leg burned or
The body was burned and decomposed beyond
recognition. At las there was taken out the
body OF man about thirty years old, five feet
six inches in height and weighing about lao
pounds. The head was separated from the
body, which was burned beyond recognition.
All the clothing had been burned of. The body
of a woman about five feet Ave inches in height
and weighing about las pounds was found at
l:35 am. The body was burned beyond recog
milton. At l:50 am. there was found the body
Of q man about five feet nine inches In height
and weighing about 170 pounds. The clothing
was burned of. The body Of another woman
about twenty-three years old was found at
am.
At ASS O'Clock the body of Morris A. Haring
OF Jersey City was taken out. Ii was identified
by his brother. At $50 q. m. there was re-
covered the body of a man about forty years
old. In the pockets were . silver watch with a
brass chain, eleven keys on a ring. pocket
n
with two blades The body o' a young man
about nineteen years old was found at $50 a.
m. This made eight bodies recovered between
midnight and $50 a. m, bringing the total num-
Der OF bodies recovered up to that time to 5s.
COMPLAINT ABOUT THE SLOW WORK.
Much indignation is felt and freely expressed
In this city at the tardiness and unsuccessful
manner in which the authorities are working
to exhume the corpses of the unfortunate vic
tins Of the terrible disaster that occurred on
Park place last Saturday. Up TO o'clock this
morning only fifty-seven bodies had been taken
out, and although many others are plainly visi-
BILE, mixed up with the debris, the men at work
are powerless to remove them on account Of
the want OF proper appliances. Many Of the
bodies are held down by the heavy presses,
which it will be impossible to remove without
the requisite machinery. These appliances are
promised to be used today, when it is hoped
that the work of exhuming the bodies will 20
on more rapidly. The bodies that are recov-
cred now are simply such q shapeless mass of
charred putrid fesh-in many instances NOV
ing mass of maggots-that il is impossible to
recognize them by their features. the identity
IN most instances being made by the clothes or
some paper or watch or something in the pock-
cts. The stencil Of the decaying bodies last
night was SO horrible that il almost i'm
possible to breathe within the fire lines with
out some counteracting odor to inhale.
NEGLIGENT OFFICIALS.
The heads of the various city departments
seem to have been more anxious that the ex-
pense attending the work should not be carried
to their particular account than that the bodies
Of the dead should be recovered before all chance
of Identification was gone. Ever since Saturday
night the work of clearing out the ruins
has been greatly delayed by the pressure of a
huge mound of debris blocking up the street in
front and having no place to deposit the
wreckage taken out, and yet it was not till
last night that any steps toward removing
because a city contractor stepped in
and offered to pay for the work
himself if the city oiicials could not de.
eide which department should pay the bills.
The pile Of wreckage in the street is now
rapidly disappearing, and by night viii be
At 7:30 o'clock the body Of another man wal
| taken from the ruins. The body was badly
burned and decomposed. Fifteen minutes
| later in the same spot was found the body
| OF another man. The body was burned and
decomposed.
At o clock was found the body of Q man
about forty years old. At 1880 O'Clock there
was taken out the body Of a young woman ap-
parently twenty-six or twentyseyen years OF
age. Unlike the greater number OF other
though the face is distorted anC badly decom.
posed, recognition would seem possible. The
hands were appraised, as il she had died while
praying.
shortly before II O'Clock the search for
bodies in the cellars Of IS and 20 wal
abandoned. All the debris had not by
any means been removed. but it was stated
that what remained there had been thoroughly
examined and that no more bodies remained in
it. Work was then concentrated on the cellars
Of "a and "a.
sIxTY-oNE BODIES RECOVERED.
The police record gives the number Of dead
bodies taken from the Park place ruins up to
o'clock this afternoon as sixty-one OF these
seven bodies were identified Immediately after
being discovered and were taken direct to un-
dertakers or their homes. There were fifty
four bodies taken to the morgue, and lof these
thirty-three were identified. There remain
twenty-one bodies unidentified.
The workmen rested from their labor between
IL and o clock and then resumed their task OF
removing the mountain of debris that fills the
center of the street. The work will be contin-
ued tonight General Foreman Blauvelt said
he did not think it could be completed before
tomorrow night.
The firemen say that the front and rear por-
tions of the cellar at No. "a, where Peterson'f
restaurant was situated, have been carefully
examined and there now remains only a small
space in the center to work on. When that has
been searched the work will have been com.
pleted.
MAYOR GRANTS VISIT.
About 1880 o'clock Mayor Grant, accom-.
panied by his private secretary, for the first
| time visited the ruins and remained there fol
| some time looking over the whole scene and
asking a number of questions regarding the
disaster and what has been done and is nov
doing to recover the bodies of the dead.
Train Robbcr Arrested.