The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-28
BURIAL FOR WINDSOR DEAD
THE UNIDEN TITLED TO co TO SLEEPY
HOLLOW CEMETERY.
Free Burial There Ohered-FraEments of
Three More Bodies Found Yesterday,
Making the Total 32-Eyidence That

Free Burial There Onered-Fragments Of
Three More bodies Found Yesterday,
Making the Total 32-Eyidence That
the Fire Began In the Turkish Room.
A few human bones. which we're sent to tho
Morgue as unidentified body No. 10. were found
at IL O'Clock yesterday morning in the Windsor
Hotel ruins. one hundred feet from the Fifth
avenue wall and twenty-five feet from the
Forty-seventh street wall. What was labelled
No. 20 was found 4 at 1880 o'clock in the after
noon hy Inspector John Hare, twenty-five feet
from Fifth avenue and forty feet from Forty
sixth street. A few bones. two black ened bits
Of cloth. and n woman's shoe with a foot in II
were all. AT 4 o'clock. thirty-fve feet from the
rear wall on the Forty-seventh street side. were
found a few more bones. which were labelled
No. 81. With eleven identified dead this makes
thirty-two.
1t was practically decided yesterday that the
unidentified bodies found in the ruins shall be
buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at larry
town. A free lot there was offered by the
trustees OF the cemetery on Saturday. Similar
offers came from ltockland Cemetery. near
Nyack, and the Cedar Grove Cemetery in
Brooklyn. Mr.. Leland said yesterday that he
had accepted the Tarrytown offer after IA con-
s~ultation with Capt. Samuel Requa and Super
intendent William T. lockwood Of the Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery Association. A representa-
tive OF the New York Central Railroad told Mr..
Leland yesterday that the railroad would
gladly furnish free transportation. The funeral
services will probably be held at the Church Of
the Heavenly Rest on Wednesday.
The office safe was lifted out OF the ruins
early yesterday afternoon. The books inside
were blistered by the heat and some OF the pa
pers were blackened. Almost all Of them were
decipherable.
Among the valuahles found yesterday was n
breastpin set with eight stones. three spoons
marked m. F. NJ" the initials OF Miss Nor
gan, who is missing; bank book No. 72S.3l2 on
the Bank Of Savings in the name Of Kate Muir
initials Of Mrs, II, 4 burlington. u lady's bi;
cycle. a repeating rifle with the stock burned
Of. and some. silver articles marked u. {. D.
The Fire, Marshal's investigation into the
gether discredits the idea that the burning Of
the hotel was the act of incerdiari"s. Fifteen
sion from their evidence, it is said. is that the
fire was started Ivy the throwing oi a match
into the tapestries Of the Turkish room on the
avenue to the. elevator shaft. and thence
jumped to the fourth floor. afterward spread
The Building Department. an inspector said
Yesterday. was pot going to cart away all the
The departments business. as this man pIt il.
is. to look for bodies. To do that effectively
thrown fS%SvS 'f into the he's" Street tHG a r"ST piled "1 t up. 'H Nov that TSt
the edges of the ruins are cleared. the debris
from III" centre is TO be thrown out into the
parts already examined. SO much OF the
debris in the streets will he removed AS is nee
"Ssary TO keen the streets, open; The rest.
when the work is over, will he thrown back
whence it came.
Bur lding Department officials have been
talking of suing Commodore Gerry to recover
the cost of I'll" search for bodies. Yesterday
il was announced that Mr.. Gerry had secured
legal advice to the effect that the city might
sue hut could not recover.
There are several springs in the cellar Of the
! hotel and the water rose so high about 81 O'Clock
last night that dense clouds OF steam began to
come from the still hot bricks and some Of the
hystanders thought that flames had started
again.