Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-27
THE LAST BODY OUT.
Sixty-One COrpseS in All Taken From
the Park Place Ruins,
But MANY OTHERS ARE MISSING.
Cruel Red Tape Responsible for the Delay
in the Ghastly Work.
THE INQUEST WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY

NEW YORK, Aug. 26-The last body wa
taken this afternoon from the ruins on Parl
Place, making the total number of corpse'
recovered 81. The announcement that the
search was concluded had its effect upon
the crowd, which with morbid curiosity ha6
clung to the rope that formed the fire line
Most of the people went away and the
overworked police breathed sighs of relief
The Bureau of Membranes kept up its
work of removing the debris from the
street until 8 P. NJ, when all work stopped
There still remained about the spot sew
eral desolate women whose dead had not
been found and who refused to believe that
there had been cessation of the work OF
The searchers. Indeed it was matter OF
wonder to all that there was so large q
number of missing who couldn't be &C.
counted for. The theory was advanced that,
owing to the ferceness of the flames which
ragged several hours, some of the bodies were
entirely consumed.
MEASURES FOR RELIEF.
Mayor Grant has appointed Relief Com
mittee, and money for the families of the
dead has commenced coming in. One thou
sand dollars has been received from Mrs.
Grain, owner of the building that collapsed.
She sends letter saying she wished she
could give more for the families of the dead.
The Coroner will begin an inquest next Mon
day.
The work of delving for the dead in the
ruins of the Taylor building continued unin-
terrupted through the night. Thefirst body
taken out after midnight was discovered at
lis A. NJ. At irregular intervals thereafter
bodies were recovered until the CHASTITY task
was finished. Eight were taken out between
midnight and $3.50 in the morning.
That human beings should so far forget
their duty to the dead, as to leave them rot
ting and purifying in a vast moldy pit for
three days, il presented as an incident in a
romance, would be condemned as violas
tion ofdecency and an insult even to man N
imagination. Yet such was the revelatio
which last nights labor caused, and further
proved that these horrors could have been
Inverted, if proper decency and common
humanity rules at all among men.
TO WHOM PRAISE Is DUE.
There are three men whose names should
earn the praise and gratitude of all self-re-
specting men and women. They are DR..
King B. Page, who volunteered his services
in assisting to identify the bodies, and has
worked Is hours out of the "a ever since the
calamity; T. E. Crimmins. who, being
shrewdly aware OF promises made by the
would pay the labor of his men (125), now at
work on the ruins, If necessary, and who has
practically shown that with prompt action
all the bodies would have been recovered
before putrifcation destroyed all chance of
recognition; and Chief of Battalion Cash.
man, who has worked with unflagging en-
ergy TO expedite the recovery of the bodies.
The heads of various city departments
seem to have been more anxious that the
expense attending the work should not be
charged to their particular account than
that the bodies of the dead should be recov-
cred before al chance of Identification was
gone. Ever since Saturday night the work
OF clearing out the ruins has been greatly
delayed by the presence of huge mound of
debris, blocking up the street in front, and
leaving no place to deposit the wreckage
taken out, and yet it was not till last night
that any steps toward removing the block
ade were taken, ana only then because a
city contractor stepped in and offered to pay
for the work himself if the city officials
could not decide which department should
pay the bills.