The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-09
Blood Was Found To Be
Scattered Everywhere,
The Work Of Clearing Wreckage from
the Collapsed Building
1t VIII BE Several Days Before Debris
VIII BE Cleared.

New YORK, Aug. 9.-The work at clear
ing wreckage from the collapsed eight
story building at West Broadway and
Third street was kept up all night and
one more body has been recovered.
Ton after ton of debris was removed by
the 20 workmen. The men started in
their work in systematic way, begin
ming at the huge pile on the front build
ing. Many times they came upon cloths
of blood, and then they would renew
their efforts to reach the bodies from
which it flowed. Blood was found to be
scattered everywhere, showing that many
of the men supposed to be buried beneath
the ruins We're dead before they reached
the cellar in their fall. Work was slow,
for every pound of the great pile must
be turned over.
Contractor Galligan said that judging
from the way things looked this morn
ing il will be at least several days before
the debris can be turned over. All night
and up TO the present time the friends
and relatives of men supposed to be
beneath the pile of ruins were at the
scene anxious TO have clearly determined
their fate.
IL was not until 5 40 that workmen came
across anything resembling human
body.
Two of the men turned over piece of
twisted iron which had been bent out of
all shape and discovered clot of blood.
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for there had been many other just such
clots exposed. Near this clot, however,
was shoe In the shoe and encased in
a black stocking was human foot. liz
was taken to the street and laid upon the
sidewalk. Nearby where the foot was
found was also discovered q shoe, the
mate to the one encasing the foot.
When the body of Charles Peterson was
taken from the ruins last night one foot,
the right one, was discovered to have been
torn from the body and the other foot was
bare. The foot found this morning was
the one torn from him. The workmen
kept steadily at work, but nothing else
was found OF interest until O'Clock.
Then the gang of workmen came upon
the legs of a man which were sticking out
from under a pile Of debris. The work
wis concentrated on this spot, and after
half an hours hard work the body was
lifted to the surface and taken TO the
street. 1t was horribly mangled and
every bone was broken. The face was
so cut and swollen that 1t was almost
beyond recognition. At that time several
who claimed to have missing relatives
under the debris, looked at it, but none
of them recognized the man as any one
belonging TO them. The man was evil
IDENTIFY plasterer. He wore white over
alls, on which were evidences of plaster.
The bodies of two more victims were
discovered in the ruins shortly before
noon. One was 1dentlhed as that OF
Michael Flynn. His BODY was drawn
from beneath a mass of wreckage on the
first floor. The other body was unidenti-
fed. This was found beneath the first
floor.
The body of the sixth victim is thought
to be that of Michael O'Hare, laborer,
of 112 Walworth street, Brooklyn. No
positive identification has as yet been
made.
The body recovered at z o'clock this
morning was positively identified as that
of Michael Savage, plasterer, AZ years of
age. The identification was made by
several of Savage's fellow-workmen. The
fifth body was identified as that OF
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