The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-25

he had picked up.n He was taken to the
Second precinct station-house followed by
q mob. many of whom shouted Lynch him.
lynch him." From the statIon-house the
There he gave his name as Rosso Savano.
He said he intended To give the watch TO
his boss. He was held for trial.
BY noon the odor of the burned bodies
became painfully offensive. and Doctors
Doty and Miller, of the health board, were
sent to disinfect the ruins, and also the
bodies as they were taken out. The disin-
fections, however, appeared TO do no good.
as the stencil became more and more un-
bearable as the day waned.
Six more bodies were taken out at 3:25 T.
NJ. Five of the bodies were those of women
or girls and one of them a boy. One of the
bodies was identified as that of Lottie
Helm, twenty-five years old, who worked
for Liebler X Mass: another that of Mag
gle Quinn, about twenty years old. and a
third of Mamie Williams. sixteen years
old. The two first were press girls.
"A volunteer force of workmen from the
Marvin Safe Company, with one of the
c~ompany's blocks and it's safe-hoisting ma
chinery, Vas at work at noon hauling the
big Hoe presses out of the ruins. Under
meath one of these presses was visible the
bodies of two men. The greater number
of the Italians quit work at noon, but a
few of them still kept on clearing away
the debris. At that time only the edge of
the ruins had been searched. Down beneath
the center of the building are, probably,
the graves of the great majority of those
who persisted. AT 5 o'clock the next body
was brought out from the basement of No.
90. 1t was found beneath the press frame
that had been lifted out of the debris q
few minutes before. IL proved to
head be and md body SoS We're Surnsd beyond %on; rec aps
milton, but the legs and feet were compare
tiveiy intact. At $50 O'Clock the next body
was brought ont from the press-room. 1t
was the remains of O young man, who
looked to be about seventeen years old.
His face was burned beyond recognition.
but most of his clothes were in fair shape.
lie was probably one of the employees IN
the press-foOm. Half an hour later another
pine box was carried out of the ruins and
laidsbeside the previous two on the side
walk, near the city hearse. When the lid
was removed there Was disclosed the fright
fully charred remains of a young man. The
body. was burned and mntilated beyond
foot were missing. Nearly every vestige of
his clothing was gone, and what little re-
manned was of little or no use towards
Identification The man was apparently
abOut tw~enty-four years old. The three
boxes were then placed In the dead-wagOn
and taken to the mOrgue.
Another body was removed from the ru-
ins at 6:45 o'clock. 1t was that Of a large
and muscular man, about six feet In height
and of perhaps 1S5 pounds weight. The re-
tnoiho WSlO nOO INV a
somewhat Dlackened. There was no mu-
tilation of any part, and the hair
was not even slnged. None of
those at the scene of the dis
aster waiting the recovery of relations
could identify these remains and they were
sent to the moroue. Up to l2:15 A. NJ. no
more bodies had been reached. Owing to
the wretched management of the work of
excavation hardly any progress was made
from 8 to IL o'clock. There IS little ex-
npctAtlOn = that anV more lO0le9
will be recovered before day break.
although the increasing and almost
intOlerable stencil seems to indicate that
other decomposing bodies are not far OH.
and may be reached at any time. Two or
three dead wagons are in waiting. n over
q score of pine coffinB are piled upon the
sidewalk In readiness tor an expected dis
covery of n group of dead bodies In the Gel
lar OF the restaurant, where the %eXcavatOrs
have been working for the past four hours.
T%HIRTY-F0UR BODIES RECOVERED.
At12:3O A. NJ. the sum total of the bodies
recovered from the ruins was thirty-four,
none having been taken ont since sunset.
The number positively identified is twenty
and the number reported missing eighty
eight. The identified dead are: Leonard
Cole. forty-five years. Madison street.
Brooklyn: John Gibbs. four years, New
York; Anna Heagney, six years. New York;
Michael Slatttry, hfty-fve years, New York;
New York; George Lowe. BROOKLYN; Gus.
tave Zeikler. Hoboken: Jacob Heidenrich.
New York: Charles Breitner, fifteen years.
New York: Otto Walker. twrnty-four
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Delcheopki, fifteen years. New York:
Gustav Steinere twenty-six years. New
York; John SteiDke, fOrty-twO years, Jer-
sey City Heights; Edward Shaddock, eight
cen years. Brooklyn; Maggie Quinn. eight
cen years, New York; Lottie Helm. twenty
six years. New York: Matte Williams, six
teen years, New York; Mary DeiDlein. SIX
teen wears. New York; Conrad Schmidt,
New York.
The iiIemen who have heard all sorts of
stories as to the number of persons in the
buildings when they fell. believe at least
fifty bodies are still under the debris. Dep
uty Fire Chief Reilly is of that opinion.
and be has made careful calculations from
submitted to him.
Miller Barnett, the agent of johnson
City, Tenn, who was caught in the wreck
of the falling building on Saturday. and
is still at Chambers-street Hos.
pital where his skull was tre-
PANIED. The surgeons say he is doing
we'll and have hopes of bis recovery. Mary
Heagney, the nine-year-Old girl, who was
on the sidewalk when the Taylor building
bricks, but was rescued alive. is also at the
Chambers-street Hospital still. She suffers
from a lacerated wound of the scalp, a con-
fusion OF the eye and fractured ribs. She
is doing we'll and it 10 said she will recover.
An alarm was sent out from police head
quarters to-day for Louis Rosenfeld. pro-
prIetor of the paint store at No. 40 Park
place. He has been missing since the dis
aster. and his brother thinks the fearful
scenes he witnessed after the crash came
unsettled his mind. and that he is wander
ing aimlessly about this or some other city.