The evening world., 1892-02-08

located, and all the Railways conyerged at
this point.
After dusk last evening and up to o'clock
this morning nothing was done towards re-
covering the bodies Of the victims.
AT g o'clock last night. when the laborers
knocked or work, only small portion or the
sidewalk on Sixth avenue had been cleared
REsCUERs COULDN'T WORK IN THE DARK.
Work was stopped, Superintendent Brady,
Of the Bureau OF Buildings. says, for
want of light. No electric light tower
could be put up because the light
ing companies had all their plants
IL operation, and 1t could not be Interrupted
TO gtyo time to erect wires and poles over the
ruins.
Capt. Reilly, OF the Nineteenth Precinct,
and Chief Gicquel, Of the Fire Department,
OF the fire.
There were forty policemen on hand to
keep the fire lines, and streams OF water con-
tinued to play upon the still smouldering
ruins.
They were steaming this morning at day.
break, and the vapor which rose from the
ghastly pit mingled with the thick fog OF the
early morning.
BIG CROWD AT THE SCENE.
The crowd OF sight-seers who blocked the
streets IN the neighborhood all day yesterday
began to gather again. AT o'clock there was
dense throng IN Sixth avenue and in Fortietn
street, and the long line extended through
the centre OF Bryant Park.
"Have any bodies been recovered?" was
the first question that every newcomer
asked, and when he learned that no work had
been done during The night, he remained to
watch the ruins from distance.
HARD WORK TO EEEP THE CROWDS BACK.
Sergt. Lane, OF the Nineteenth Precinct,
and Sergt. Suite, OF the seventeenth Pre-
Cinct, had hard work to keep the crowds from
pressing forward, and Gordon OF nifty police
men WAS guarding the tire lines at o'clock.
About quarter OF an hour before this Con-
tractor T. p. Galligan, VINO started TO dig out
the ruins yesterday afternoon, arrived Oh tho
scene with gang OF seventy-hve laborers.
He put them to work ut once.
Some OF them tackled the big pile OF debris
which blocked up the sidewalks on the Forti-
eth street front, while another squad went TO
work on the sixth avenue side, which had
been partially cleared.
CLEANING OUT THE DEATH-Pir.
Work was begun in earnest, aud II soon
began TO tell. The mass OF bricks and mortar
and pieces OF charred timber and furniture
which was piled up just within the line OF
the wall where the main entrance had been
began TO disappear rapidly.
Soon hole was made In the cellar, which
seemed to be choAcd up with trunks and
pieces OF water-soaked carpet and clothing.
CLOTHING MARKED IN. A. D."
Ina hali-burned trunk, which was one Of
the first things The laborers dug out OF The
ruins, were found the remnants OF some fine
Undertaking. Part OF II belonged to u
woman and was marked With the Initials
IN. a. De-" while some shirts and white
vest that had belonged TO Il man were marked
&C. A. H."
| Pink and blue silk woman's underwear
and fnc embroidered skirts half burned and
soaked were strewn over the muddy sidewalk
by the laborcrS ana were rescued BY the
police for purposes OF Identification.
These were found under the rubbish right
at the corner at sixth avenue and Fortieth
street. Then one or two leather trunks, a
partially burned hand satchel containing
some papers, apparently legal documents,
and a battered silk hat were brought out.
GREAT MASS To be DUG AWAY.
Bed springs, mattresses, pieces OF carpet,
picture frames, ends OF bric-a-brac and rem
nan,s Of iurniture were all jumbled up o
gethcr In the debris, which was packed down
into solid compact mass
IL seemed as II It would be hours before the
diggrrs would reach the heart or the ruins
where most CT the bodies are supposed TO DC
buried.
ISovIRING FOR MISSING FRIENDS.
Among those who We're adnitted within the
fire lines early this morning were number
OF friends or relatives OF those who are miss
ing ard are believed TO have pcrIshed IL the
disas,er.
ono OF these was Harvey IVAN Norden, the
manager OF the Royal Worcester Corset Com
pany, or Philadelphia who mad been watch
| Ing all night long a. the runs.
SURE HIS WIFE IA Aaos6 THE DEAD.
Lilo IL convinced that his wife rs among5he