Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-25
FOR THE DEAD
Search for the Victims Of the Park
Place Disaster.
THIRTY-FIVE BODIES RECOVERED
Up to the Present Time, But Many More Supposed 70
be IN the Rnins-Ths Bodies Taken Ous
Almost Unrscognizabls-A Man Caught
PlundsriDg One Of the Victims.

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the night, except at the times
when the rain poured down in such tor
rents as to render labor beneath 1t lm-
possible. At 1925 O'Clock another body
had been found. 1t was that OF man.
and lay beside the tangle of presses at
No. 20. 1t was terribly burned and
At TAO o'clock this morning second
bodv was found, alto that OF man,
near the spot where Ghe first was dls-
covered. Five minutes later third
bodv of a man was found in nearly the
same place. Hardly had this been done
when the body of another man was
found, but it lay,beneath heavy press
and a derrick had to be used to hoist the
press. so as to take the body from the
rnins. Almost simultaneously the dis
covery of the fifth body-making TWEEN
ty-one in all-was made among the
brick and paper at No. "a. 1t was tnat
of large man, but the face was visible
1t was liks the others exhumed, un-
recognizable.
One of the bodies recovered this morn
ing is believed to be that OF John
Steinke. of Hoboken. At 10 o'clock the
body of another young man or boy was
found, almost directly beneath the spot
from which the last body had been re-
moved. 1t was identified as that OF
Ernst II. Shaddock. of Brooklyn, who
was employed by Leibles & Mass. lie
was sixteen years old.
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taken from the ruins, a crowd OF people
standing on the steps Of the building
opposite the wreck saw one OF the ltal-
ians working in the ruins stoop over the
hody of one of the victims and take
something out of the vest pocket. They
shouted to the police, and a boy ran
across the street and told Policeman
Sweeney, Of the tenth precinct, who
arrested the Italian. He was compelled
To show what he had in his pockets and
the first thing he pulled out was
silver watch, which he admitted he
had "picked up" He was taken to the
second precinct station house followed
'Lyncn mint lynch him!" From the
police station the Italian was taken to
the Tombs police court. There he gave
his name as Rosso Savono. He said he
Intended to give the watch to his boss.
He was held for trial. BY noon the
odor of burned bodies became painfully
offensive, and Doctors Dolph and Miller,
Of the Health Board, were sent to dis
infect the ruins, and also the bodies as
they were taken out.
Superintendent Brady and force of
deputies went to the ruins, and began
thorough investigation of the causes of
the accident. 1t was learned there was
no boiler in the building, and that the
heavy photographic presses were not
working when the accident occurred.
The theory that the disaster was due to
the faulty construction of the building
is gaining strength. Up to noon the
official account of the number of bodies
bodies taken from the ruins is twenty
three. At thaVhour there were two
more bodies Visible, but they had not
vet been dug out. This would bring
the number of bodies actually found up
TO twenty-five.
So far only the edge of the ruins has
been searched. Down beneath the CEN
ter of the buildings are probably the
graves of the great majority of those
who have perished. The firemen, who
have heard all sorts of stories as to the
number of persons in the buildings
when they fell, believe that at least fifty
bodies are still under the debris. Dep
uty Fire Chief Reilly is OF that opinion,
and he has made careful calculations
from the numerous and contradictory
reports submitted TO him. II the presses
can be got out to-day it is likely that all
the brick and timber can be removed by
tomorrow afternoon, and all the bodies
recovered by that time.
Six more bodies were found in the
ruins at three o'clock. The work of TAX
ing them out of the debris was COM
pleted at 1925. When it was learned
that FIVE of the bodies were those of
women or girls, and one of them that of
a boy, one OF the bodies was identified
as that of Lottie Heinz twenty-five
years old, who worked for Liebler &
Mas; another as that Of Maggie Quinn,
about twenty years old, and third
that Of Mamie Williams, sixteen years
old. The two first were press girls.
District Attorney Nichols is consid-
ering the question of indicting the per-
son or persons responsible for the dis
aster. After a long consultation with
his chief assistant, ex-Judge Bedford,
he placed the case in the hands OF the
Assistant District Attorney.
At five o'clock the next body was
brought out from the basement of No.
20. 1t proved to be the body of a man
burned beyond recognition. At $50
o'clock another body, that Of young
man, was brought out from near the
same spot.
City Chamberlain Grain, whose moth |
er owned the wrecked building said: II !
know nothing personally about it. The |
building, have always understood, was
we'll constructed and never was con-
demned, nor was it considered unsafe. |
1t was always used for the purpose for |
which it was used at the time of the |
fire. My opinion from all have been |
able to learn is that the cause Of the ac-
cident was fire followed by an ex-
plosion."
A man who has been engaged for
thirty-fve years in placing printing /
machinery in position said to-day that |
the presses OF Ellis & Mcdonald and
Leibler & Mas were so placed that the /
vibrations ran with the beams and raft
ers and that the eight-inch resting place
was insufficient to support the enormous
weight that was on it. On the third |
floor alone he said nearly forty tons OF /
stood.
Another body was removed from the
debris at Gas. It was large and mus
cular man about six feet ia height and
of nerhaps 1s5 pounds weight. The re-