Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
EEEING THE DEAD.
|nonc the Blackened Ruins Of the
Collapsed Houses.
VERY GRUESOME SCENE
.,..,sd 10 Slghissers-Tho Sad Vigil Of Young
Woman Whose Lover Was Buried Z the
Ds5rs-SsventeS1 Bodies RscoVsrsd@ Far
Work Of Recovering Suspended.

Nrw YORK, August 23.-When it was
oelock this morning the newspapers
o,t 70 press with the details Of the ter
le explosion calamity in Park Place
Ds-erdav and the story Of the searching
dead was cut off at that hour. But
era came no abatement then in the
s+ewatic and ceaselesS work OF the
keaen. The tugging and delving and
listing went forward tirelessly hour
er hour among the blackened timbers
n the tumbled stones and brick. Oc-
sIonally there came a break in the
ork. when silence fell and men were
shed and one more Of the lost went
and away upon tender, smoke
rimed arms.
An electric arc lamp had been tackled
a post across the street from the
inns and with its white, glaring eyes
sred all night over the working men
nd black yawning chasm where yester-
av building was and where people
+orked and laughed with no thought
4 the horror to come.
Seventy-fve Italians had been placed
rnong the ruins 10 assist the fremen.
i night the refuse was carried along
.nd added, until when the dawn came
b. pile had reached up awning high.
h doorway within the police lines,
nd close by the ruins sat woman,
totop woman whose cheeks were
Icalded and swollen with tears. With
iolded arms one hand tightly clOtching
wet handkerchief, she sat upon a
hair some one had provided, her head
bent forward and her eyes constantly
following the work going on above the
bodv of man she had loved, for she
has the affianCed bride OF the young
man Peterson, whose father owned the
restaurant where many are believed TO
have been killed while at lunch.
At two o'clock in the morning group
bf dremen ceased their work; body
had been found dead about ten o'clock.
rhe body was that of man about 80
kears old. 1t was terribly burned. No
bne there knew him. The remains
gere placed i'm the dead wagon that
ktOOd constantly near.
Then again went on the work OF hre-
ned with ropes and pulleyS diSlodging
&pd hauling away timbers from the pit
u death: the swart Italians in double
mes as .cagEieTs,- worked stolidiiy4 4Pr 81
man about feet inches tall, was
taken out. In the pockets of his trouS-
erS was found two cents. AT 6:25
o'clock the body of a young man appar-
fntly about 10 years old, was found. 1t
Was clad In dark trousers aud tennis
Shirt. AT 9:3O o'clock a halt came In
the work. Then other fremen gath
ered, each one who watched knew an
Other crushed or burned body had been
found, and the woman sitting there,
where she had been all night, started
Forward as though she would run to
satisfy herself. Her lost had been
Hound, but he had no word for her, and
She was not permitted then TO see the
Dreadful work Of the wreckage upon
him.
The man they were lifting ont from
m0ng the brick and timberS was the
gi-l'S lover, Andrew B. Peterson, %
years old, of No. S53 Eighth avenue, the
son of the man who kept the restaurant
0u the first floor. This made fourteen
bodies that had been recovered.
At 1875 o'clock, two more bodies were
discovered in the debris. The first rt-
moved was that Of man about 30 years
old. The second, also that of man,
was burned beyond recognition, the
flesh being in ShredS and the inteStineS
hung over the spine as the body was
carried 10 a coffin.
As the evening came on, heavy clouds
sailed overhead and shut down on all
sides 90 the horizon, and a dOwnpOur of
rain began about six o'clock that with
slight breaks was continued throughout
thc night The iremen ana the Italians
aud others withdrew from the work.
4 The police were left 10 watch from the
dO1rwayS, the crowds were scattered,
and the dismal blackened pit was left
alone with its secret buried beneath.
The complete list OF the identified
dead up 20 ten p. m. is as follows:
Leonard f. Cole, forty years, of Mad
sou street, Brooklyn, employees OF Lu-
ther 81 Mass.
John Gibbs, 4 years, 237 Greenwich
street.
Sarah Ann Heagney, 6 years, No. 65
Park Place.
Charles Heagney, 10 years, 65 Park
Place.
Michael Slattery, So years, Eighty
ninth street and Park avenue.
Philip Eberle, 16 years, 4l0 South
Fourth street, Brooklyn.
John Barry, 35 years, No. S Grand
street
A. b. Peterson, son Of restaurant pro-
prietor, 21 years, $50 Third avenue.
George Low, Is years, 80 Wallabout
street. Brooklyn.
Gustav ziekler, $40 Washington
Street, H0boken.
Jacob Heiderich, No. 125 East One
Hundred and Eighth street.
OTTO Walser, "a years, Of is East
Eighth street.
street.
Frank Hacb, SO years, No. 121 First
Street
h@>ideS these, there are number Of
~..,-arntliied bodies at the MOrgue.
there were still five bodies there to-
Dsat waiting TO be identified.
me opinion prevails tonight that
e'S than half the bodies have so far
zen recovered from the wreck, aud 1t
e. lAought that altogether not less than
ny Y souls were killed in the disaster.
4lere is no doubt but that a large
Nm, nt,noer Of the persons now reported
I,.sS'ng will be found IN an unrecog-
b,,ale b,,taoie state beneath the huge mass OF
O'ICS II, and mortar.
f. tue Total number OF bodies taken
stoDDs9 toT s9e ruins up to the time the men