New-York tribune., 1891-08-26
IDENTIFYING THE DEAD.
MORE BODIES BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
MANY OF THEM HORRIBLY BURNED-MR ELLlSs
CORPSE FOUND.


.nt ON slowly Yesterday morning and after
| noon. Tn to 6 O'Clock last night only iorD
| two bodies had been recovered ana OF tuese .n'
two were fully identified. Between O'CLOCK a,,u
midnight on Monday nothing was found but the fls"O
leg Of man stiIl covered with stocking 1he loroe
employed during the late hours OF Monday nsh'' o
sisted Of ffty italian laborers and gang OF twenty
eva Aremen under the direction OF Foreman fareS
The foreman was determined TO make tue l"',,"''
work He succeedcd-partly Some OF the l''iiah9
were induced to carry baskets full OF rubbish from 0
rups to the mounds in the roadway, but they hau 70
he hrbed with several gifts of beer before they "o
exert themselves. 1t shortly after midnight VIM
tbe searchers came upon the body OF taii' s'V""
nowerfnlly built man lying on his back in eon,ins @
position close to the sub cellar OF No. IL faih ~
In life he had weighed nearly 200 pounds. WIio ~. W
was burned completely away leaving nothing o"V ''0
| skeleton bones, the lower part OF the body was 20
fecty well preserved. His dress told tlat nc nav -
| all probability been lthogapher. Grasped con
yulsively in one Of the bony hands was sinaN ~
bordered napkin In which he had evidehV,S 'ii0u
| his luncheon. In the pockets were lounu '"a ~
pearl- handled knife and So 10. OWING 10 Vno eN"
| weight OF the corpse, consderaDe umouiV, ". t
nerieDced in dislodging it from the mass OF ear III
| which II was embedded. At last the corpse vas
wrencbed away and there standing out IN Weiiu us
tnctnoss against the Gicketng lights OF the eas Ie
| could be seen the right arm raised as III N'i'O
menace. ,.,uo .bo fire.
man tound the thirty seventh victim, young
stouohtv bp fairhaired man, apparently ABOUT lirE
v,ars old His body was so tightly cruSnoo GU.
| wedged between the heavy planKs OF 'he noo'"e -
the men had to work with might and mann lor He a.
| tbree hours more before he could De eAtrloaou
,mbs and body were twisted and gnarled IN the aeonc
- do.,b bnt although the body was terribly purhe"'
,h ,ocn was almost untouched By the fame Inc ihan
| had n small sandy mustache, ana Piai" e.
| ring remained on the little finger OF inc ile"O a.
/ He wore blue checked jumper ana o'eren'' ~
in the righthand trousers pockets were lounu wv wv
| email nenltnives one with buckhorn hahule' III"
other was of mother Of pearl Then al U 'oo' 1
| ,nd.r q boavv iron press, was found shapeiess'
Needing burned heap Of flesh and bone "oicii coua
moi he identified All the clothes had been ourhed vi
u and probaby It's identity Will never DO posltVeN
| settled A., ,,.oo,orr
Tn. Italians took heart Of grace from the discovery
~ these two ehastly objects within rev iniu'cs Vi
| .och other and now worked they had never uohe
| hntore with a wolf-nke eagerness they burroWeu
| among the bricks and mortar ana IN '.t ono'-iG
| cnarter OF an hour dragged out the tmr'S -hn'"
| rornse This was young man VINO hau
| oac.lv reacbcd his twenty-fSth year. He "as
wnu knit and we'll built, while the blue apron
ooroh with rtnters inkstains told that he had peeh
| onn ~ Iiehler a. Maasss press-ieedcrs. HIS whle
mor,no undcrclothng, fastened with safeypihS' was
| the only other aid TO identification bero again 'le
bca was so horribly burned that nothing was FiO "
| indip ''N
! had been burned away, while a shoulder had einosV
dronned from the body II necessary TO exercise
ha greatest care In lifting the corpse INTO the cohu
Soon shout from the fremen announced the discovery
of another victtm-none other than poor IrpPe' 'ne
| druggist Ills giant form lay head downward IN an
avalanche Of bricks, right at the centre OF ue cella
| ~ No 72 As the shower Of wood, brick ana stone
| rained down on him. Mr.. Trippe had instlnctlYey
ra,sei hs arm to shield himself from the blows that
! beat out his life. When I've was found the arm was
ssl lifted fixed and rgid in front of his charred lace
ont of which the fire had burned even the sembahce o
humanity The left leg had been crushed to shape
| less pulp Only the gold watch, with the
| initials aF. W. To- engraved on the outer
case and the handkerchief with the name
Ferdinand W. Trppe" written in the corner tod
who he was. Bevns and & DeeRmann, the BoWery
undertakers, have been waiting for Mr. Trppe's BODY
since saturday and at once claimed IT, IL was taheh
away IN wagon to their shop, and later carried to his
home in seventy-frst-st. In one of the waistcoat
pockets were found S54 in bills while the loose chsige
| in the trousers amounted to 81
The vigil Of those who have been watching for the
body Of W. Ellis, OF Ellis e. Macdonald, the book
| binders came to end at IL O'Clock, when MS
maneled FORM burned crisp, found next to the
south wall Of No 70. The clothes still hung in shreds
about the limbs, and only by the memorandum OF de
posit on the Broadway National Bank and an order
for suit OF clothes could he be known His uncle,
F. w. Price who lives in Thirtieth-st. had no hesta-
ton in identifying the corpse, and when Coroner
anlv had given the necessary order IT was taken to
McElliss home at No. 22s Iartst., Brooklyn. lie was
forty years old unmarried and lived with his mother
and three sisters. In his pockets four S5 bills
leaden 25-cen piece, pocket comb, tooth wrapped
| up in paper and pocket rue
At 5I5 O'Clock the fist Of those who eating in
Petersons restaurant when the crash came was found
by Firemen Frank Argue and Jacob Hoffman, Of Hook
and Ladder Company No. 10. IT Law in the basement
g | with ferr feet of Uhp
door OF Petersen's place had stood. The belief
expressed by many practical judges that the maor
Of those who the lower floors when the build
ing fell in had escaped the touch Of the ames seems
likely to be fully verified one glance at the corpse
was sufficient to show that the man, whoever he
had been crushed and socated. bat not burned. The
| top Of the head was beaten In and the face was
swollen but the rest Of the body in good cOnc
ton In the pockets were $15 IS ceats in money
an invoice from Russell & CO. to W. IL. Geary. When
| the coffin laid on the pavement, man. who had
- closely watched the ruins for three DAYS and scrut
niz.d every corpse brought to Hight pressed forward
- and identified the body that of his brother John
Hills truck-drvcr for William H. Geary. Of No. 81
+ | Readc-st Hills who lived at No. rs GOuverneur
ST., with his wife and eight young children. int
t. peersens restaurant for luncheon When the house
fell in the horse took fright and roed away with the
y | tFuek 10 Geary's store. For time the rela
10 | tiyes Of Hills doubted whether he had evel
,r been In the house, and up TO last night were
5 half inclined 10 believe that he had wandered away
" The same doubt oppesses the relatives Of Louis ROsen
H. field Max Marks, his Office boy, vert out for chang
~ Just before the crash and at that time Mr. R0scnfel
n not in the store Two minutes later the boy
turned Just in time to The house fall In. From
ed this Mr. Rosenfeds friends believe that he eithe
entered the store but moment before the crash. o
h that he has escaped and cazed by the horror OF II
calamity, wandered of in tit Of temporary insanity
h With this view they have published description
ie him. His Office safe dug mp just after oclOc
and, when II lifted TO the pavement, two me
q from the Marvin Company, authorized by Inspecto
Williams. stepped forward to take charge OF IT,. Her
ID l Lost