New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-25
IDENTIFYING THE CORPSES.
MANY BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION.
GRIEF-sTRICKEN RELATIVES AT THE SCENE OF
THE DISASTER SEEKING TO DIS
COVER LOVED ONES


All through the darkness Of night and in the gray
dawn of the early morning the gruesome work OF
numbering the bodies OF the dead continued
At intervals Of half hour some backened scorehed'
shapeess mass of flesh and bone that had once been
man or woman, was dragged to the light from under
the mass Of earth, BRICK wood and iron. When
coffin had been obtained and the body placed In
t. the coroncr's officers would take a general de-
scrption of the marks on the dead person and an
inventory OF the articles found in the pockets Ihs
CHASTITY task was performed with care and tenderness
The grefwasted faces Of the mothers fathers wives
and brothers. who waited anxious, through the long
bours OF day and night to see all that remained OF
their dead loved touched and softened even tc
heart of the New-York policeman.
When O body was carried from tho ruins, IL went
no further than half dozen yards. Then the oouih
was laid on the pavement while Coroner Hanly or
Deputy Coroner Donlin examined it. The CROWD OF
watchers around them would press FORWARD
regardless of the CALL keep back there from the
blue coats. Occasionally, moan, n shrek, or SOD
from some one in the crowd, would tell OF the recos
non so anxiousy looked for yet so dreaded, but in
nearly all cases, the watchers turned away with
sorrowful sigh and shake Of the head
The crash which beat out the lives Of the unfortu
nate creatures In the Taylor Building also beA out
the substance of humanity from these poor faces ana
in all probability many OF them will never be positively
Identified
The opinion expressed by many that the vast ma
,ority OF the bodies would be found underneath or In
the immediate neighborbood Of the great pruning
presses belonging 10 Liebler Mass, is being rapidly
borne out. With the removal OF the last press yes
teriay afternoon, bodies brought TO light win
rapidy increasing frequency. The first OF the Dooies
found yesterday came TO light soon after 80 O'CLOCK
| in the morning. It was wedged tightly between Two
| charred timbers. The head and face were crushe"
into n formless pass that made recognition SIMPLY
impossible. No could bear to look at the ghasuy
| thing and IL taken away TO the Morgue "i'hou'
having been identified. Strangely enough, the 'ecV'i'
with one exception were all intact, and 1t was EVIL
dent that the missing tooth had been extrac'ed IRON
the Jaw long ago. The fire, which had scorched ana
burned the skin to an inky blackness had spared the
light cotton underclothng and the trousers
| which the mana young one-had worn, anu ny theS0
! he may possibly DO identified.
When the marks on the body had been jotted down
In the coroners book, policeman chaked IN Dig piue
figures the number IL, although matter OF fact the
body was actually the eighteenth on the list. Inc
cOroners however, take no account OF the SIX oooioS
recovered on saturday and their estimate therefore,
| will be lust that number behind those OF the ne
porters Then for three hours there was break, but
shortly after O'Clock, right under the mass OF hoorlhs
and machinery at the north end OF the building inc
aremen came upon three more bodies, all huddieo 10
gether but tightly held down by the wood and iron
When AZ last after three quarters Of an hours work
j they were extrcated it found that the first was
| that of boy who apparently had been about uteeh
years old He wore knckerbOckers and blue woonel
! stockings One of the feet had been completely
burned off, and the flesh of the right arm was burhed
away. The face and head were unacceptable.
All that could be told Of the second body was fouhd
In the brass pool checks bearing the inscription Johh
| steInke poolroomn which found In the clothing
that still cling to the upper part Of the body uhs
leather purse held dozen Hoboken ferry ticKe's'
fat KEY, IL cents and three brown paper slips oa
the lower part Of each slip printed the address vi
Rdley's drygoods store in Grsndst, while az the Top
OF EACH In the blank left for the insertion Oh e
name was written in Ink, NJ. Stern, SlI''
No attempt could be made to identify the thru oi
these three bodies In all probability the hrss Oh ''e
bodies will prove to be that Of foorooH' ei'p'o' %
by eblier & Mass, while the second may DO one VI
the men who was dining in Petersen's restaurant
Two hours more went by. and then four more oooes
we're visible 1t was impossible at first 10 eAtr'oa'e
more than one of them-that OF man "no III i0 ''''
been tall and powerfully built
This corpse was found the surface Oh 'e "'e0A
age at the south erd Of the ruins. someoou' u V''
the body was that of F. W. Trippe, the ornssis, ou
this report was quickly denied by one OF MS 0ierhs
Then the bodies OF two boys were brought oa~
MERGING scream from pale ACKNOWLEDGING woman
who rushed forward and tried to throw herscn on u.
first of the mangled burnt heaps Of hesh' too Una
Ernest shaddock one OF the four boys employed o,
Liebler & Mass had been discovered The shriekin
woman was his mother, Eliza shaddock AS she s'oo'
over the coffin she tottered and fell In heap 70 -.
ground Then she was carried tenderly away I'M
lace Of the second Of the two boys had been com
petely burned away ,,,,
AT l 80 D. m. all that was left Of woman VINO
spparcntIy had been about thirty'hve years oid wa
mt IN box md taken away TO the Morsue' lne'
for an hour the coroners meu ana te repo,'e,s naa
brief respite before they were conifon'cu wiz. '' rH
n,,ntl and agonzlng Of all their experiences Tm'