The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-24
NEW Y0RK'S DISASTER.
THE BELIEF THAT THERE WAS 40
EXPLOSION.


It Is Thought the Building Coll snsed
From the Great Weight and liar of
Neutrality-suspicious. Printing FL I'm Had
Fifty Tons of Machinery A2unn,nc
Day and Night - Recove fling the
Bodies From the Ruins The Fire
Broke Out From the Restaurant
Kitchen, Broken Gas F5)es, Electric
Wires, Etc.
Nav York, Aug. 3d. AN all night
search for the bodies Of 'Jt.e unfortuuates
buried underneath the ru b.s of the Inflated
building on Park place 1lat collapsed yes.
terday brought to light four more bodies.
At 2 o'clock this MOI wing the BODY of a
man, apparently aboit, 80 years old. was
found in the ruins n 80 r where the body of
boy had been tax n. out twenty minutes
before.
At o'clock another body about feet
inches was taken rout.
At 6:2O o'clock another body, apparently
that of young man about 10 years of age,
was found.
At $3.50 oclo ok the body of Andrew B.
Peterson, % y ears old, the son of the man
who kept tb q restaurant on the ground
floor. was ta Ken out. This made fourteen
bodies that had been recovered.
%At iO:S5 o'clock two more bodies were
discovered The first body removed was
that Of man about 30 years old. The Sec
ond, also that of a man, was burned beyond
recogni' ion. All day long there was con-
slant 81 ream of
VISITORS TO THE MoRGUE.
Sorne went from a morbid curiosity.
whib, others went there to see if any of the
bod es taken from the ruins were those of
relatives or friends.
Most of the bodies have been identified,
tsven where recognition was impossible, by
Their clothing or some other circumstance
'One woman identified the oharred remains
of her son by the fragments of his under
clothing which she had made for him.
Nearly all Of the identifcations were of
people known TO have been working in the
wrecked buildings, and whose friends
searched for them as soon as the disaster
BECAME known. A large number of
PEOPLE ARE STILL MISSING,
and not accounted for among the remains
recovered. One opinion, very generally ex-
pressed, is that there was no explosion but
that the building simply collapsed from the
great weight and jar of the machinery used
in the printing, lithographing and other
manufacturing establishments in ths upper
stories of the buildings One firm on the
third floor is said to have had
FIFTY TONS OF MACHINERY.
running at high rates of speed day and
night for several weeks past One firm
printing theater posters, had nine presses
eacn weighing over two tons. going con-
stantly, besides an extensive lithographing
mia ,Ia- 4
to show that the front wall was forced out~
ward aud then the rest Of the building fell
TO the cellar. the heavy machinery taking it
down at once.
FIRE BROKE OUT INSTANTLY
from the restaurant kitchen fires. broken
gus pipes, broken electric wires, etc.
Quite number of casualties were among
the people who were passing along the
street. Mr.. Barnett the johnson CITY
fIenn) man, was one Of these, also the two
children killed aad one INJURED, but taken
out alive after being three hours
under the debris. great many
from the rear of the building by fire escares
so that the probable number of deaths will
not be as great as was at first supposed.
During the afternoon tte crowd at the
morgue increased. Three more bodies were
identified by friends.
THE SCENE AT THE RUINS
during the day, from early morning until
after dark, was one never to be forgotten
Thousands of people from all parts of the
city and vicinity were there and they stood
Tor hours at a time without being able 10
see anything except the backs of the people
ln front of them. They filed all the an
proaches to the wrecked building and Park
place for considerable space was almost
impassable
Street vendors erected lemonade booths,
and aDDla and CGndU yvOmar did thpivito,
trade
ALL CLASSES AND CONDITIONS
OF reople were in the throng and the police
reserves had the hardest work to prevent
sue IRE lines from being broken into. Po-
ace Inspector Williams was in cnurge
oL the arrangements, and several fire
engines were kept busy at different times
uuiihg the day throwing streams oi water
On the names that broke out at irregular
InVervaI at various places in the ruins.
Chet Reilly said thatit was proba BILE that
tue hre would continue to break out as the
Iepfls was eing removed. A gang of fifty
4Iailan laborers worked all day.
CLEARING AWAY THE DEBRIS
Great care had to be- taken in clearing
anay the pile of bricks, stones and frame
nld iron work, all jumblel together in a
confused mass, for fear of maneling
U o remains OF the victims buried beneath.
49, VIII De several days, and probably a
week. before the mass of ruins is removed
THE CORONER TO INVESTIGATE
~ C3roner Hanley, who will hold inuuests
tt III Vns bodies of the victims recovered from
v1ooE EMFeckage, says that it may be several
7, uGn ,.;S neiore an Investigation will be held
cirdn i%tll Vnen impanela jury, which will in
onoI Iuo number Of expert builders. and
trHay Try effort will be made to discover the
~ cause OF the collapse Of the bulldog
sa1a1y 1arIy tonight storm came up and for
me-, hours the rain fell in torrents. The
caoa,, ou employed in removing the debris
60. r1rI WORK, but they will be at it again
n! '3.morrow morning
bodipos 10 10 a late hour to-day seventeen
tbi-Vs tbirtaonl n4a been taken from the wreck and
H. AN EARLY MORNING BLAZE.
f,volftoroke rIe broke out early this morning in the
wav y oly granite building, No. 48i Broad
stoo, oo, ana a. caused $4,000 damage to the
tow tow VI m = Z. Horsman, an Importer of
sT5 6oo VINO nc occupied the first floor. and
Tranrt. yG 70 70 TIE stock Of Ferris Bros. corset
fourtb fIiaeturers Htrers, on the second, third and
mated at $1,000 ~ 'u0 oui''4'ns IL eSel-
W., bAAIH CAUSED RY SMOKE