Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-24
Under the Electric Lights.

New YORK, Aug. 23.-WEeu II was II
O'Clock this morning the newspapers went
to press with the details OF the horrible en-
pioSiOu calamity in Park Place YESTERDAY
ana the story of searching for the dead was
cut of al that hour. BUt there
came no abatement then in the
systematic AMI crasees~ work II
| the hUemen. Tagging and hosting they
Went forward hour after hour among the
Olackened emberS ana tumbled stones and
| brick. Occasionally there came u break IN
the work when silence fell and the men
were hUshed. ana one moro o. the lost went
out and away upon tender, SmCSC-grlmc1
arms. An electric are lamp hau been
fastened 20 the post across the street from
the ruins and with lis white g.drinG eye
stared all night over the working men and
into the black yawniug chasm. where YES
terdHV the building was. ami where people
worked and laughed with no thought OF
| the horror 20 come. All The VIII Z
there was constant uaSEInE of water rom
TWO hose lines upon the wreck. Two lines
Of men were formed from the fatal pir 10
The street aud the debris was passed out.
Al night the refuse WIS carried along
until when the dawn came ina
pile hast reached zap a wing high.
While the newspaper presses two or three
blocks away were changing a O'Clock,
sending out printed stories of the disaster,
black masses of SU'.gu people were Vet II
he scene of the disaster, damned a. caCI
end of the block against rows of policemen
who constituted the ire Ike. There WAS
little noise The two engines, each 1 block
away, had
SETTLED To THEI: WORK
and their black rhrodtS coughcd less VIZ
lcutiy, but CcdscleSsly. By and by the
newSboys from PRINTING House Sgua caus
pdytcriuG their bare feet along tine streets
and called with subju"d voice: Extra. al
about thc great explosion. while the people
I-tnry Ets nj
Duyssp aS 10 UcaG what the men wearing
badges aud inside the fire lines had learned
and written through ;he night.
In doorway Within The police lines, and
close by the ruins, sat woman, 4 Young
woman, whose checks We're Scaldcd with
tears. With folded arms, one hand tightly
clutyhing we; handkerchief she sat upon
a chair someone had provided her head
bent forward arG hcr eyes constantly
following the work going on above
the body OF the man she had loved
The light of the darlu@ torches Cl!Steucu
upon her boodshor. pitiful eyes Beside
her upon an IRON stairs sal a man who az
Companied the woman. and all night
they had been watching, waiting. hoping,
Yet dreadinG 10 see the discovery of HIM
whom they knew The woman spoke SCI
dom and only waited humbiy to see
The BODY OF HER LOVER,
for she was the atlianced bride of
the young man Peterson. whose
father owned the restaurant where many
are believed to have been killed while at
lunch.
Al , O'Clock in the morning group of
firemen ceased their work \ body had
been found near the spot where lad was
found dead about 10 o'clock. The
body was that of Il young
man about thirty years OH. L was
terribly burned. No one there knew him.
The remains We're placed in the dead wagon
hos
went on the work, the tirenen with ropes
and pulleys dislodging and hauling away
the timber from the pit of death.
There came finally touch of gray light
tltering through tine morning mist Soma
had gone home to sleep. The crowds be-
side the policemen were much reduced. but
the work went ON and on. The silent
fiancee of the dead man in the ruins was
waiting as the dawn broke, aud her strained
and pitiful face was CHASTITY As the day
light grew and strengthened the light from
.he east had lessened by degrees
THE COLD. UNSYMPATHETIC RAYS
of the white electric eye that stared into
the pit, and soon il was put out.
At O'Clock another body, that of 4 man
about five feet seven inches tall, was taken
out. In the pockets of his trousers was
found cents.
apparently about nineteen years old, was
found.
Al $50 o'clock hal. came in the
work. Two or three tiremeu We're
bending and busy-haudcd. Then another
fireman gathered. Each one who waited
knew another crushed or burned body mad
been found and the woman standing there
where she had been all night, started for
ward IS though she would run To satisfy
herself, but her companion Stayed her and
went 10 look AT the dead. Soon he returned
to the waiting girl and led her by
the arm tenderly away lnstiuctively
she knew the vigil was ended.
Her quest was over, her lost
had been found. 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 We're lifting out from among
the brick and timberS was the girls lover.