Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-25
From All Quarters. 1.-THE SEARCH FOR BODIES. Thirty-six Taken from the
 Ruins at Park Place. POLITICS IN THE OLD BAY STATE. The Lake Erie and Western
 Railroad Strike.
BIS BATTLE NEAR VALPARAISO.
Damage by the Storm in
 Pennsylvania.
SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD.

SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD. Nearly Half the Bodies Taken From the Ruins of the Recent Disaster in New York-Derrfck and HoIstfne Apparatus Required to Remove the Heavy Presses and dTimbers-Twenty Girls Believed to be Buried in e Heap.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-At 3 p. m. the bodies of three women were found, and g little later the bodies of two women and 6 boy were taken out. Three of the women were recognized as Lottie Meim, aged 22 Maggie Quinn, aged 20, and Mamie Will. Hams, aged 16. They all worked in the building. The six bodies were found hud- dled close together. Their faces presented the appearance of death by suffocation. Their eyeballs and tongues protruded and their bodies were swollen to abnormal size. The odor of decomposing flesh that arises from the ruins is becoming horrible, and the disinfectants hitherto used seem to produce little effect.
 At 5 o'clock the body of man was brought out. It was found beneath the pIC5o 1luLAO 0uou huo DcCu 1lIcu OuL u Uu6 debris few minutes before. The head and trunk were burned beyond recogni- tion, but the legs and feet were compara- lively intact. The man was apparently about twenty eight years old, five feet seven inches in height and weighed about 150 pounds. The next body was brought from the press room. It was that of a young man who looked to be about twenty N1I yond recognition, but most of the clothes were in relatively fair condition. He was probably one of the employees of the press room. Half an hour later another pine box was carried out of the ruins and laid beside the previous two on the sidewalk near the city hearse. In it were the frightfully charred remains of young man. The body was burned and mutilated beyond possible recognition. Both hands and one foot were missing. Nearly every vestige of his clothing was gone. The man was about twenty-four years of age, five feet eight inches high and weighing about 150 the ruins at 6:45. It was that of large and muscular man, about six feet in height and perhaps 1S5 pounds in weight. The remains were not much burned, al though blackened. There was no mutila- ton of any part. None of those at the scene of the disaster could identify these remains and they were sent to the morgue. This was the thirty fifth body which had been recovered.
 At 7:30 the excavators in the press room unearthed the body of woman. She was found in semi-recumbent position and her arms were extended as if to ward off the fatal blow. Blood was flowing from her mouth and nose The body had not hoa fonnhaI hU tha fire and ently that of woman twenty-eight years old. The fremen and laborers worked hard to release the body, but one of the legs was caught under heavy press, and it was decided to let the body remain as it was until morning, when with the aid of a derrick it can be taken out without mutilation. At 9:30 p. m. thirty-six bodies had been found, the identified dead being as follows: Leonard Cole aged forty-fve, Madison street, Brooklyn; John Gibbs, aged four, 237 Greenwich street; Sarah Ann Heagney, aged sixty-five. Park Place; Michael Slattery, ffty-fve, Ninety eighth and Park avenue; Andre B. Peterson, twenty-one, S35 Third avenue; George Low, 392 Wallabout street, Brook lyn; Gustav Zeikler, BIO Washington street. Hoboken; Jacob Heidenrich, 125 East One Hundred and Eighth street; Charles Breitner, fifteen, 133 Essex street; Otto Walser, East Eighth street; Frank Hach, aged thirty-three, 121 First street; Abraham Derschopki, seven teen, Al Delaney street; Gustav Steiner, aged twenty-si1, No. 2l1 East One Hun dred and Seventh street; John steinke, ! ward ward sbaddock, eighteen. g Moore ! street, Brooklyn; Maggie Quinn, fifteen, 2A Cherry street; Lottie Hein, twenty. six, 256 Avenue 0; Mamie Williams, six ! teen, 345 Cherry street; Mary Deinlin, six. | teen, 445 East Ninth street; Conrad ! Schmidt, 125 East One Hundred and Eighth street. The Italians and 'lonqshoremen, who hac
 been at work removing the debris since 1S
 o'clock, were relieved at 7 p. m. by gang
 of Italians and the slow work of clearing
 out the mass of iron, brick and girderi
 went on more slowly than ever. The fire
 men, who are directing the work and art
 themselves exerting every muscle and nerve impossible to get the lazy foreigner'
 to do their part as it should bt
 done. Tomorrow, however, stil larger number of 'longshoremen are to b.
 set to work, when it is hoped that muct
 greater progress will be made. Corone,
 Hanley expressed the opinion this evening
 that when the cellar on the west side ha l been reached there will be found ove
 twenty bodies of women and young girl
 who were waiting at the cashiers desk t
 receive their salaries. None of these girl
 have returned to their homes and thei
 friends wait anxiously the time when tn
 workmen begin to remove the mass O
 bricks at that point
 The number reported missing is eighty
 eight. The loss on building, stock, ma
 chinery, etc., is placed at $500, 900. Tn
 building is insured for $50, ,O00 and tn
 other property for $7O,000. Louis Rosen
 field & Co.'s stock and machinery, value'
 at $25, ,000, was fully insured in Hartfor
 company.
 1:30 a. m.-Another body that of man has just been found in the ruins.
 The worst part of the tragedy is yet t.
 come, as evidenced by a fearful and over
 whelming stench which indicates unknowl horrors and an almost inestimable numbe of bodies buried under the weight of rut
 bish and machinery. At midnight terri
 ble stench came from the part of the ruin
 occupied by the restaurant. It is probs
 ply that this spot will add fearful tale
 even to this present estimate of the horror
 The men are fast clearing away th
 debris and it seems highly probable that great number of bodies will be recovere