St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-26
FINDING THE LOST.
The New York Death Pit Not Yet
Reached.


New YORK. Aug. 25.-From midnight
until the city awoke to its business life
the scenes witnessed by the watchers
| at the fatal fire on Park place
| proved that the worst fears as to
! the extent of the awful catastrophe
were to be fully realized. The bodies
| that were recovered during that time,
| and the horrible possibilities that Turk
| in the misshapen shadOwy visions OF
! human forms, crushed and jammed amid
| the bulk of machinery and weighty tim
bers, assured the police and firemen
that the worst evidence is yet to come.
| The greater number of the unfortunate
victims will be found underneath the
debris yet to be removed.
No such mangled remains of human
ity have been recovered during the
search as the specimens shown during
the night. Bodies mutilated beyond all
recognition, and so fearful to look upon
that even firemen turned away, weak
ened by the sight. The Italians. for
the first time since they were employed.
did good work in gathering up
the CHASTITY remains of the victims.
The body of Frederick w. Trippe,
proprietor of the drug store at NO 76
Park Place, was found at 9:l5 o'clock.
1t was so badly mangled and burned
that it was at first impossible TO tell
whether it was that of man or
a woman. Finally friends of Mr.. Trippe
recognized diamond ring on bis tlnger,
and gold watch with the initials "F.W.
Tom it,that was found beside the body.
The body of William H. Ellis, of the
firm of Ellis & Mcdonald, rs Park
Place, was taken out of the ruins at IL
O'Clock. 1t was burned and mangled
almost out of resemblance to humanity
and the clothing was also unrecognlz-
able. In pocket was found pocket
book containing various papers bearing
the name of William II. Ellis, which
served to show that the body was his.
Mr.. Ellis was forty years old. w: L.
Mcdonald, MI. Ellis partner, IS miss
ing, and is supposed to be among the
dead.
A derby hat was pulled from net
work of beams and two or three DoQleS
were seen. They could not be reached
until a great mass of irOnWork was re-
moved. Clerk Mandlebaum, of the cor
oner's office, who has made careful in
vestjgation, said at II o'clock that there
was not less than twenty persons
buried under Peterson's restaurant.
The back wall, which is still standing,
grows more threatening. The, hremen
fear that when the iron work is re-
moved the wall may fall in. 1t was in
almost a tottering condition at noon,
and the Workmen were keeping a sharp
lookout. Before noon Capt. Eakins
said that if the wall did not fall
the work of removing the presses
would be so far advanced that
the bodies beneath the sidewalk, if there
were many, could be easily reached.
We thought there were fifty corpses in
the cellars. That would make total of
ninety. This estimate may be above or
below the right number, but consider
ing the number of missing of whom
nothing has been heard, the list of
killed is not likely to fall short of nine
ty, and probably it may happen that
persons living out of town, who have
not been reported missing, may have
been in the restaurant" Supt. 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 naphtha or some other eX-
plosiYe. He was satisfied that the upper
floors of the building were Overweighted
and had direct evidence to that effect.
At a. m. this morning fifty-tWo bod
les had been taken from the ruins in
Park Place. At that hour thirty-eight
had been positively identified aud one
partially