Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-03-21
BODIES IN TIN NJ|\S.
Workmeu IInearth CorpSeS at Burned
New York Hotel.
REMAINS BADLY BURNED.
Police Scout Theory That the Bis
Fire Was started by Thieves.
The Injured All Report
ell Doing Well.

New York. March 2l.Workmen are
still busily searching the ruins OF the
Windsor hotel, burned Friday after
noon. Two bodies have been found.
which brings the known death list up to
IL. There are now IS people not yet ac-
counted for.
The first trace of body in the ruins
was found when the badly charred leg
bone OF human body was discovered
In heap near where the entrance of
the hotel was. 1t was turned up with
a pick by one of the workmen. 1t was
so charred that there was no telling
whether it was the leg bone of man
or woman. The workman did not
injure the hone in digging it up. The
police took charge of it.
Mr. Sweeney Immediately called off
the ordinary workmen after the finding
OF the bone. He put skilled men to
work, who were to use no picks, SHOW
els or other implements, but their hands
only. 1t was believed that one or more
bodies would be found at that point,
and the work was carried on carefully.
1t was felt that the bodies, if any were
uncovered. would be so badly burned
that identification would be almost i'm
possible unless some trinket or personal
belongings We're on the remains.
Only a Skeleton.
The first entire body to be taken out
of the ruins was soon found. The skel
eton of a person. with only little flesh
on the breast, was discovered on the
Forty sixth street side ten feet from
the sidewalk and two feet from the
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almost all the flesh still on it, was also
discovered at the same spot.
There were 300 men working on the
ruins. a great crowd was watching
from behind the police lines. The men
had dug II feet into the ruins on the
Fifth avenue side and about ten feet on
the other sides.
The debris was piled on the sidewalks
and street. and all finds handed over to
the police. Every precauton was taken
to prevent workmer from taking any
jewelry that might be found.
Another body was found near the
center of the ruins.
Some clothing, jewelry and small ar
ticles were found in the debris. On the
Fifth avenue side and toward the For
ty-sixth street side the big office safe
was dug out. it was exposed and then
left guarded by a policeman. 1t APP
peared to be intact.
Injured Doing Well.
The injured who are at the hospitals
are all reported to be doing we'll. No
more deaths are expected from among
them. SO many of those injured have
been taken to hotels and private resi-
dences by their friends that now only
u remain in the hospitals. There are
six at Flower hospital four at Roose-
Welt hospital and four at Bellevue hos
pital.
Captain McClusky, chief of the de-
tective bureau, said that he did not
think it possible that thieves had fired
the windsor hotel.
Such thing is unheard Of" said the
captain. land cannot believe 1t. No
band of thieves would go SO far as that.
That there We're thieves at work while
the hotel was burning is shown by the
fact that we caught one man carrying
off plumber, but l am satisfied that he
did not belong to an organized gang
formed to set fire to the hotel and rob
the guests rooms while they were flee
ing for their lives. ! am sure he did not
have his work planned, because when
caught he had plumber valued at not
over $1O0 He had gone into Syrians
room in the hotel and there bundled to-
gether a lot of sheets and some furnish
ings.
"Whenever there is big fire, and es-
pecially one where there is loss OF ne
folks are inclined to say that incendl-
aries have been at work. We cannot
understand how the fire spread so lap-
idly. but the firemen and the pol cemen
look at the matter in a different ght
It did not start in two or three places
The flames gained foothold in ons
room, flew through the halls ana reach
ed an air shaft a minute later every
floor was ablaze."