Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-27
DECENCY OUTRAGED.
The Work of New York City's
Authorities in Searching
IN THE PARK PLACE RUINS.
The Unfurtunates Were Allowed to Re
main Until Their Bodies Were Nest
of Maggots Before Rescued-No
Sort of Management.

New YORK, Aug. 26.-The total number
of bodies recovered from the Parl, Place
ruins, up to ESQ this morning, was fifty
eight.
Two more bodies were recovered at 100
this morning
At o'clock the body of man was found,
and At 1880 the body of a young woman.
Any one here looking for sister, mother
or friend. If so step TO the coffin and
Identify this body This was the conf
mand that Jared the strained nerves OF the
watchers beside the death pit last night Us
each body was brought. II was mere
matter Of lava hooking formula TO
shield the fearful criminality Of in
competent authorities. II the readers of
the horrible tale which this past night
beside me sodden open grave of these. I'M
fortunate men and women reveals could
have ans wered this summons Of the police
captain, and mingiing with the small crowd
Of mOurnerS gathered around the plain
coffin caught glimpse Of the mangled re
mains, ncadIesS limbs. sometimes mere
handful of rotten bones held together by
shrcds OF garments and torn flesh,
such readers would realize the awful
crime resulting from incomDetent
management and nastelesS Indifference of
those who should have taken the fearful
night of the calamity. Every body recov-
cred last night was a rocking nest of mag
COTS. That human beings should SO forget
their duty TO the dead as to leave them rot
ting and puterfying in the vast mouldy pit
for three days, If presented as an incident
in Z romance, would be condemned as
u violation of decGncy and al insult even to
mans imagination, yet such was the revela-
tons which last nights labor caused, and
further proved that these horrors could
have been arrested if proper deceucy and
common humanity rules al ali among men.
There should be no mercy for such Grim
mai negligence. The heads of the various
city departments seem 10 be more
anxious that the expense attending
the work should not be charged 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 de-
layed BY the presence Of 4 huge
mound of debris blocking up the
street in front ana leaving no place
to deposit the wreckuge taken
out. ana yet il was not till last night that
any steps toward removing the blockade
We're taken and only then when the city
contractor stepped in and offered 10 pay
for the work himself if the city authorities
could not decide which of the departments
should pay the bills. The pile of wreckage
i'll the street is now rapidly disappearing,
but no city official is to be thanked
At 30 o'clock this afternoon Fire Chief
Reilly announced that the search for the
dead in the ruins was completed and that
no more bodies remained there. Work was
at once stopped.
The department of public works Will CON
tinue tEeir work clearing the debris from
the streets.
IheopoLice department gives the number
of bodies taken from the Park Place ruins
up 10 o'clock this afternoon is siXty-oue.
OF these seven bodies were identified
Immediately after being discovered and
We're taken direct TO the undertaken or to
their homes. There Were tifty-four bodies
taken to the morgue, and of these thirty
there were identified. There remain twenty
one bodies unidentified.
Mayor Grant has appointed a relief COM
mittee, and money for the families of the
dead has commenced coming in. The
coroner will begin an inquest next Monday