New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-07
CROWDS AT THE WRECKED OFFICES.
HURRYING ALONG THE WORK OF RErAIRs-MANY
TENANTS WILL OCCUPY THEIR
ROOMS TODAY

ROOMS TO-DAY.
All day long throng Of sightseers visited the
scene Of Fridays explosion in the Arcade Building.
There were day aborers, newsboys Italians, farmers
from the nearby New-Jersey towns, all the same
errand but the eight police the outside and ten
or twelve inside handled the crowd well, and the
loafer who stopped the building was soon
warned to keep moving" Inspector steers was down
in the morning his eye the place; and
Captain Mclaughlin and two roundsmen inspected the
arrangements two three times during the day.
AS prccautiOn three strong beams had been
placed supports to the stone coping under the
main Office of Russell Sage, and only worlmen with
passes allowed upstairs by the police stationed
at all the sairways leading to the second floor All
the wreck outside had been cleared away but heap of
mortar under the elevated railway stairs and large
pile of heavy planks and ath just under the window
from which poor Norton was blown. Glaciers were
busy replacing the temporary white cotton screens with
new sash and glass The Manhattan Railway people
have exhibited great despatch in having their repairs
completed; the rooms of the auditor and the general
manager were only slightly damaged, and they are
already cleared up. Colonel Hahn Inspected all the
Offices of his company the second and third floors
Yesterday and said: Z" i am well pleased with the
progress the workmen are making with the repairs
We have not suffered any interruption with our once
work. except for few hours Friday afternoon, and
none at all in the management Of the roads. Our
papers were not disturbed in this Office
But in the offices of Russell sage no attempt had
been made to repair the complete wreck; there were
two great holes in the floor and one in the ceiling ana
the curtain of the inner Office were cut OIL close
20 the rollers, with scarcely shred hanging Every
thing around the bore witness to the tact thlt
the story Of the violence of the explosion had not
been exaggerated. In corner of the room STOOD
leaning against the wall dozen spliners SIX or seven
feet long, torn from the wainscOtng and on several
q these hung shreds of human flesh and great thick
cots of dried blood, large mans hand. The cell
ing of the private office is punctured here and there
with long splinters, still hanging at the same angle
they first struck: then there is oval blood stain,
two feet broad and four feet wide, sunoundea by
Splashes of the same color, beyond this III the Inc OF
the door is black swab-like mark, as If made by
niece of the wretcs sOdden coat flesh and coat were
wbired through the air. In the public Office are heaps
of wailscotDg covered with broken bits of once fi
niture one Oblong box for documents marked X 81,
two upholstered Office chairs badly mdngled table,
nieces of the regulation ticker furnished by the Gold
and stock Telegraph Company and three oidiashonea
sOfas. - .,
About O'Clock o. r. Potter owner Of the Arcade
building walked Through it, gave few instructions
TO the janitor and went uptown on the elevated road
saving he was well satied that the damages 10 the
building as whole could be covered by few thousand
dollars and might easily have been much greater.
Otis W. Booth the agent Of Mr. Potter in charge OF
the building passing through II few minutes
afterward, and he thought that all the tenants, eX-
cept Messrs sage and Connor, would experience no
inconvenience by to-day.