The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-24

RAISING BODY FROM RUINS.
smoking ruins WAS narrow passage way.
Here fremen stood and held nozzles through
which streams OF water were thrown on tho
ruins. while other flremen worked with pick .
and shovels and flro hooks and saws search
ing for bodies.
DEMoANrNG A lost BoY.
On the opposite side OF tho street. behind
the piles Of debris. there were 100, perhaps
more. persons who thought they had friends
numbered among the dead yet uncovered.
Here sat a aged German and his wife. They
both cried and n,oaned SO piteously that oven
tho policemen were touched md novel OIL.
leaving them alono. They had lost their boy
they said. He was their only child There
was another woman who cried and took on In
q manner that made those who saw her
mourn with her. She was sister OF Mr.. Ellis
OF the firm OF Ellis 4 MoDohald. She came to
look for her brother. Then there were bust.
ness friends OF some OF those who were re-
ported missing. They were moved by the
greater sorrow OF tho mother and the father
and tho sister.
WAITING FOR THE BODY OF HER pETRoTaED.
There was ono other. Though she was not
seen BY the crowd. she came to wait for tho
body OF her bethrothed to be uncovered. Her
sorrow was not OF the demonstrativs kind.
Her eyes were dry. She did not sob or moan.
yet she suffered. perhaps. more than the others.
She had waited there the long hours since the
disaster for news OF him. She know he was
dead. and sho knew his body was buried under
tons Of iron and brick. and that perhaps 1t was
Injured SO that even she could not recognize
It She knew 1t might be days before tho
searchers came 10 1t. yet she would not leave
until at last she was actually forced to go by
kind-hearted friends.
Up tho street near College place there was
a FIRE engine pumping furiously into the hose
that carried the water to tho FIRE. Near 1t
stood two black wagons loaded with yellow
pine boxes. with loosened covers. awaiting
the bodies that the nremen should find Just
beyond the engines and tho black wagons
stood the crowd. q row Of policemen. armed
with night sticks. in front. At that hour the
people stood five or six deep. Some had been
there oil night but more had stopped on the
way from early mass. The fakirs then wers
putting up their stands Just around the corner.
At the Greenwich street end OF the street there
was another crowd. This was made UP chief y
OF allnishters The Italians and the volun-
teers who had laborsd through the night had
gone for rest and breakfast Only the firemen
were working. No bodies had been found since
o'clock.
CRUSHED AND BURNED OUT OF sEMBLASCE OF
HUMANITY.
The clock In ST. Paul's Church was tolling
the hour OF 6. when one OF the nremen who
was digging in the northwest corner OF the
ruins whore the other bodies had been found
Suddenly stopped work and called out, Here 8
another" The other flremeu crowded around
him and police men ran from across the street
followed BY some OF the citizens. They peered
down into the hole where the fireman had
hoap holf nj th
chsrred timber and paper and brick the terri
bly, dishRured form or a man. The body and
limbs were twisted until they NO longer looked
human. The face was crushed In. The whole
body save one spot on ono leg was burned
Another flroman jumped down into the hole
body. 1t was twenty minutes work to do it.
tive. rovded about and tried 20 sc, glimpse
st the dead mans iaSs. They were finally
e hes tie
brick and paper ara waiteL there. Two 70;
Of tho Pine ne and
again only to to- be driven ero back By The poce
vas TSe seaa any
form WAS int IN box
nothns Then tho poiicene tried 10 put lH tie
fire had chsrrei and stiilened the c;usbed and
twisted limbs. and an arm and elbow and /.
With their nisbt sick. Finally they used
e. so S With sa NJ SSe bsn
that way to crush 1t Into place. Tho
r.! ss' !%h
crowd The heavy weight partly succeeded 10