The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-25
PARK PLACES DISASTER
THE WORK OF RECOVERING THE
BODIES PROGRESSING.

Work Continued All Through Sunday
Night-Nearly All the Bodies Thus
Far Recovered Unrecog 1izable by
Their Features-Robbing the Dead
Bodies-The Theory of an Explosion
Brroneous-The Boilers in the Build
ing for Years.
NEW York, Aug. 24-The work Of look
ing for the dead bodies in the wrecked
buildings of Park place continued uninter-
ruptedly through the night except at times,
when the rain poured down in such torrents
as TO render labor beneath it impossible
Except at these times the fire lines at each
end of the block were lined with waiting
friends or relatives Of the missing. When
thew we're driven from the street by the
rain they sought shelter i'll doorways or
wherever protection might be found, but as
soon as it ceased their weary and mournful
vigil was resumed.
At 3:25 o'clock there was hustle of ex-
citement among the workmen that in
stantly communicated Itself to eager watch
ers at the fire lines.
ANOTHER BODY HAD BEEN FOUND.
IL was that of a man, and lay beside the
tangle of the presses at No. 10. 1t was taken
out and placed in one Of the pine collins on
the sidewalk. It was terribly burned aud
unacceptable, unless its identity may be
disclosed by the tattered fragments Of cloth
ing that but partly covered it.
Work again went on unmarked by any
incident until o'clock this morning, when
the second body was found. Also that of
man near where the first was discovered.
Five minutes later third body of q msnwas
found in nearly the same place. Both were
taken out and placed in coffins on the side
walk beside that containing the body found
al 1925 o'clock Hardly had this been done
when the body Of another man was found,
but it lay beneath heavy press, and it was
impossible to remove it until derrick was
obtained to hoist the press from the ruins.
TwENTY-ONE BODIES RECOVERED.
Almost simultaneously the discovery of
fifth body, making twenty~one in all. was
made among the brick and paper at No. "a.
1t was that of large man, but. although
his face was visible, it was, like the others,
exhumed unrecognizable.
A, 9 o'clock the Italian laborers were still
at WORK removing the bricks that buried
the body and hlndered its removal. From
daylight on the crowd of spectators at the
fire lines gradually increased, and at
o'clock denselY packed throng filed every
spot that commanded the slightest view of
the blackened ruins.
NO BOILERS IN THE BUILDING.
At the office of the boiler inspectors at
police headquarters to-day it was stated,
according to records there, that the Taylor
building had no steam boilers of any kind,
nor had there been any there for several
years past. The steam power used in it
was supplied from an outside source.
RoBBING THE DEAD BODIES.
l1uriu,Y AIo pF ha TfaIfape
working in the ruins stopped over the BODY
OF one Of the victims and took silver
watch from his person. He was arrested
and taken TO the police station. followed by
mob, many Of whom shouted "Lynch
him, lynch him!"
Up to noon the official account Of the
number Of bodies taken from the ruins, as
Kept by the police, is twenty-three. At
that hour there were two more bodies visl-
BILE, tut they had not yet been dug out.
These would bring the number of bodies
actually found UP to twenty-five.
Between ) and o'clock six bodies were
found close together. Five were young
girls aged from IS to %. Three of them
were recognized as press feeders for Liebler
" Moss, and another worked for Rosenfeld,
bronze leaf manufacturer. The sixth
Dody was that Of boy. They all bore the
appearance of having died by suffocation.
OAoANr hClANIS ALMOST USELESS.
The odor of decomposed and burned flesh
that arises from the ruins is becoming hor-
rlole, and the disnfectants hitherto used
seem to produce little effect.
general alarm has been sent out for
Louis RoIenfeld, proprietor of the paint
store No. 40 Park place, his brother stating
Inet since the disaster he has been missing
II Is supposed his mind was affected by the
horrible scenes he witnessed when the crash
came, II he Is not actually in the ruins.
District Attorney Nicoll is already consid-
ering the question of
NDIcTING THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE
Ior the Park Place disaster. After long
consultation with his chief assistant, ex-
Sudge Cunning S. Bedford, he placed the
ease In the hands Of Assistant District At
torney Townsend.
BODIES STILL BEING RECOVERED.
new new YORK, Aug "a, Up m.-Up to this
t Eour tnlrty-tive bodies had been recovered
A'om tne Park Place ruins
EIGHTY-ErGHr PERSONS MISSING.
twenty OF the bodies recovered have been
hue9Iined' ~, Eighty-eight people are reported
NE friends to be missing.