The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-22
GruesGMe Discoveries In the Wind
sor Hotel Ruins.
CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED
FRAGMENTS OF CHARRED BONES
AND FLESH.
Three More Bodies Have Been Re
covered, Bringing the Death List
Up to Fifteen, With Forty -eight
Still Missing-slow Progress In
Cleaning Away Debris.

New York, March 21.-Three bodie:
were recovered fro mthe ruins of th'
Windsor hotel today. They were bad
" charred, and great difficulty is being
experienced in the identification.
There are now five bodies at tht
morgue,. each tagged with 2 number
which, with the known dead, bring.
the list to fifteen. The list Of missing
is still very large, numbering forty
eight persons. The injured at hospitals
are all recovering.
Although the work of clearing away
the debris is progressing as rapidly as
possible, it seemed tonight when thu
Shift of 400 men was made that but &
small part of the ruins had been re-
moved.
An effort was made - pull down the
section Of the rear wall by means of g
cable, but it was unsuccessful. Lines
are drawn all around the ruins, and
the big crowds that still gather are
kept at a distance. Isse streets about
the ruins are impossible, and the de-
bris is piled to q height of fifteen OF
twenty feet on the Fifth avenue side
On the F'orty-seventh street side the
pile is even more formidable.
The worlSnen have succeeded in
clearing away considerable of the de-
bris for distance of about twenty
feet toward the interior of the mass
and to distance downward over this
territory to the ceiling of the cellar
They had struck at intervals what APP
peared to be partition walls, and to-
night are digging around them toward
the ground.
The servants of the hotel were for
the most part -on the top floor of the
Forty-seVenth street side, and the
workmen have unearthed many arti-
cles of cheap clothing and cheap jew
elry as We'll which evidently belonged
to the domeSticS.
It was estimated that at the speed
with which the work is progressing. it
will be at least a week before the pile
viii have been gone over, and it may
be longer. All during the night, ar
ticleS of more or less value were
brought to the surface and turned over
TO the policemen who were stationed
about to receive number them and
take them to the East Fifty-ffrst street
station house to await identification.
All of the most valuable of the articles
are turned over to the coroner's office
officials.
THIRD BODY FOUND.
The third body taken out of the hotel
was found early today. 1t was very
badly mangled. 1t is officially de-
scribed as the body of a woman about
so years of age, small stature, arms
and limbs missing, all hair burned off,
second lower back tooth, right side,
filed with gold; back tooth, lower left
side, gold-filled; part of black silk
dress, beaded trimmings, and with
white lace border; white shirt waist,
marked 3S, apparently the size; band
of silk dress waist, marked "Dou 22l,
Rue de Par" stamped in gold on the
belt The rest of the mark, evidently
indicating the name of the maker, was
burned off.
a number of pieces of bodies were
found during the night-bones charred
and broken and separated from one
another. with some pieces Of burned
flesh on them.
This morning workmen digging at
the Fifth avenue side, near the en-
trance where the first traces Of bodies
were found, came upon q piece of pelvis
weighing about two pounds. Later a
workman found what seemed to be the
knee cap of a child, with pieces of the
Joining bones. It was dug up on the
Forty-seventh street side. a pile OF
damaged clothing was found here. In
trying TO separate the pieces the work
believed to be mangled, burned and
crushed flesh and bones. The whole
mass was put in collins and taken to
the morgue.
The remains Of another body were
found on the Fifth avenue side of the
ruins. 1t consisted Of a mass of charred
intestines. Besides this mass was a
thigh bone, from which all the flesh
had been burned Near this was an
hut ha toll
what part Of the body it belonged,
These parts were found in a section of
the cellar adjoining the entrance, where
the remains were found yesterday.
r. c. Hoffman called at the East
Fifty-first street station today with a
chart Of the teeth of his sister, Miss
Dora Hoffman Of Baltimore, who is
supposed to have been lost. He said
he had thought the body of the woman
found early this morning might be that
of his sister, and he asked for the body.
When he heard the description of the
teeth found in the lower jaw of the
woman dug out this morning, he said
he was inclined to doubt if the body
was that Of his sister, as her teeth were
Irregular, and not complete.
The fifth body. TO be recovered was
taken out of the ruins on the southwest
corner and in line with the elevator. 1t
was charred trunk, with the legs be-
low the knees and the arms below the
elbows missing. The upper part of the
head was also missing. Opinions differ
as to whether it is the body of a man Or
a woman, but it was thought to be the
latter.
Nothing was found near the trunk by
which it might be identified.
Thomas Clifton. the porter of the no.
tel, thinks that the body known as body
No is that of Mrs. AuZee. a guest of
the hotel. He formed this opinion from
the beaded clothes that We're on the
body. Clifton also thinks that body
No. is that of a chambermaid named
Annie, who worked on the floor where
Mrs. Auzee roomed.