The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-25
HORRORS ACCUMULATE.
Pathetic Scenes in Park
Place and at the
Morgue.
TWO SCORE BODIES RECOVERED
And Many More to Come = over
One Hundred Are Still
Missing.
WO SCORE BODIES RECOVERED

ter brings the total number recovered
from the ruins up to ten O'Clock this
morning to forty.
Five Of these were taken out between
midnight and ten O'Clock. Several other
bodies were in sight, but they could not
be reached By the rescueTs until some OF
the heavy timbers and machinery which
rested upon them and pinned them down
had been removed.
As the work progresses Il becomes evil
dent that the number Of persons who
have lost their lives by the frigntful ca
lamity has not been overestimated.
The number missing is 10, and 1t is
feared that many are beneath the ruins.
The majority OF these are buried at the
bottom Of the ruins. and may not be
reached for two or three days yet.
| The only part of the cellar of the col
| .apsed building which has vet been
reached is that of No. y, and this is only
partially uncovered. The rear portion of
the cellar is still choked mp with mass
OF brick and mortar, machinery and
| chnrred timbers.
All the bodies which have been taken
out since midnight were dug out of this
cellar.
During the early hours of the morning
the working force consisted of gang OF
| fifty italian laborsrs aud about twenty
/ five flremen from Hook and Ladder Com
panies 3, 8, Is and Is. under Foreman
Farley OF Truck No. IL.
| For the first time since they began
work on the ruins the Italians were oD-
| liged to hustle. Foreman Farley put TWO
or three fremen TO oversee each gang,
and there was none OF tue make believe
work on the part Of the ''Dagoes's which
q. tod fha on shar
| terday.
They were provided with peach baskets
and boxes and as soon as one of those
receptaeles was dlled It was hustled out
into the street and dumped upon the big
piles OF debris, which grew in height
every hour.
A good many timbers were also re-
moved. but the Italians could not be in
dueed to move any OF the machinery.
When their zeal tagged the foreman sent
some of his men around the corner, and
for time the growler was worked indus
triousiy.
1t is worthy of note that during the
twelve hours when the gang OF long
shorenen were at work yesterday four or
five Of the largest printing presses were
taken out and dragged into the street and
fifteen bodies were recovered.
During the succeediHg twelve hours
frem seven o'clock last night, not a sin
gle bit Of machinery was touched, and
only four bodies were taken from The
ruins.
HORRORS YET TO COME
What other horrors the dark hole now
being explored by the wreckers may re-
veal is as yet matter of conjecture. The
list of the dead may be swelled to twice
the number. of today. or even beyond.
It seems likely that it will be. AS yet
no one can tell who or how many were
in the restaurant when the building fell.
-
The cooks escaped, but they were
in another room below. Nothing so
vlyidly illustrates the utter helpiessness
OF man In the face of a great catastrophe
as the inability to get ar even the onfline
facts. or, with all the resources Of a great
city at hand, to clear so shallow spot In
one Of the busiest blocks as the one that,
after. three days OF work, night and day,
still boards its dark secret.
The need of proceeding with caution
has something TO do with il. There is the
rear wall to be looked out for and tae
adjoining buildings that are not
any too safe. The one that extends
up Park place from the wreck to Col
lege place is indeed considered by some
of the tenants so unsafe as TO be in i'm
mediate danger Of collapse. 1t is a mere
shell pasted up against its wide College
place neighbor.
A thing that win greatly hamper the
gone much further is the vast mountain
of wreck that has been heaped uD on the
street in front Already it extends half
through the block and reaches the second
story of the houses.
There has been no effort made at all to
cart any OF 1t away SO as to make room
fer more. and where it is all to go. as
fifty or sixty men keep adding to iE from
the ruins, is not clear. Great difficulty is
already experienced in handling and
making room for the big presses as they
are dragged out of the enormous mass Of
tangled wreckage that yet remains.
DRUGGIST TRIPPE FOUND.
The finding of the body of +. W.
Trippe, the wholesale druggist who had
his place of business in the building.
marked the eveA two-score point since
the search began. His remains were
difficulty in telling whose they were, be-
cause there was handkerchief with the
name spelled out IN full on it, and the
gold watch upon the body had the initials
+. W. I. on the case
There was also found upon his body sS4
In bills, 81 in small change, diamond
ring aud a gold collar button. When
found, one Of the arms was up over the
dead mans head. and one leg was drawn
up in a manner which indicated that
the druggist had suffered considerably
before death came TO his relief. HIS
WATCH uttA ctopP~A AZ 4-sotr nc OtH1 VI
Trippe rested on the sidewalk until a
wagon belonging TO the undertaking firm
OF Bevins & Dykeman came. aud then IL
was carried TO TripRe's former home NJ
No. 12s West Seventy-drst street. His
country residence was at Seabright, in
this State.
JENNIE FLOWERS
The reports OF the hnding and identih-
cation of the body of Jennie Flowers. one
Of the victims. which were printed
in all this mornings papers.
have turned out to be untrue.
Walter Flowers. a brother OF the dead
girl, was at the ruins this morning, aud
said that sne had not been brought out
yet, and that none of his family had iden-
titled any OF the girls taken
out yesterday afternoon. On Satur-
day morning. when she left her
home she took with her i've books, which
she said she would bind during dinner
hour. Two of thess belonged to J. B.
Roam, her Intended husband. Walter
said lie would not let his mother see the
body when 1t WAS found, for fear the
shock would kill her.
OFFICIAL INQUIRY.
Robert H. townsend has been ap-
nointed by Acting District Attorney
Cunning S. Bedford TO assist Coroner
Hanly at the Inquest TO be held upon the
victims, at which time a searching in
quiry Is also 10 be made into the cause of
the disaster.
In appointing Lawyer Townsend the
Acting District Attorney aaid his office