Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-22

New York, March 21.-Three bodies
were recovered from the ruins of the
Windsor Hotel to-day. They were
badly charred and great difficulty is
being experienced in the identified
ton The first body recovered to-day
was that of female of small stature.
The arms and legs were missing 1t
was first thought to be the body of
Miss Dora Hoffman. Of Baltimore, a
woman 60 years of age, who is among
the missing. Tonight, however, two
of the employees of the hotel called at
the morgue and claimed to identify the
remains as those Of Mrs. Margaret
AuZe, of New York city. The men are
William Curran, parlor man at the
hotel and James Trainor, waiter
Both were positive as to the identiii-
cation.
There are now five bodies at the
morgue, each tagged with number
which, with the known dead, brings the
list to fifteen. The list of missing is
still very large. The injured at the
hospitals are all recovering.
Although the work of clearing away
the debris is progressing as rapidly as
possible, it seemed tonight, when the
Shift of 400 men was made, was that
but a small part of the ruins had been
removed. An effort was made to pull
down the sections of the rear wall by
means of a wire cable but the cable
broke and the wall is still standing.
Lines of policemen are drawn all
around the ruins and the big crowds
that still gather are kept off a long
distance. The streets about the ruins
are impossible and the debris is piled
to height of fifteen or twenty feet
on the Fifth avenue side of where the
building stood On the Forty-seventh
street side the pile of debris is even
more formidable, as more work has
been done along the edge of the ruins
there.
The workmen have succeeded in
clearing away considerable OF the de-
bris for a distance of about twenty
feet toward the interior of the mass.
1t was estimated that with the speed
with which it is progressing at present
it will be at least week before the pile
will have been gone over, and it may
be longer.
The list of missing now numbers
forty-seven.
The third body taken out Of the
ruins of the Hotel Windsor was re-
covered early to-day. 1t was found on
the Forty-sixth street side of the ruins,
about fifteen feet below the surface
and ten feet from the sidewalk. The
body was that of woman. Only that
part of the head from the lower jaw
down was still on the neck. Tie body
was very badly mangled.
1t is officially described as that of
a woman about sixty years old, small
stature, arms and limbs missing, all
hair burned off, second lower back
tooth, right side, filled with gold; back
tooth, lower left side, gold filled; part
of black silk dress, beaded trimmings
faced with white pongee silk, and with
white lace border; white shirt waist,
marked SO, 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 indi-
eating the name of the maker, was
burned off.
A hundred men worked all night on
the ruins In many places the debris
was too hot to permit of work there.
A number of pieces of bodies were
found during the night-bones charred
and broken and separated from one an
other, some with pieces of burned flesh
on them. Early to-day the workmen
digging on the Fifth avenue side, near
the entrance, where the first traces OF
bodies were found, came upon piece
of pelvis weighing about two pounds.
Later q workman found what seemed
to be the knee-cap of child with pieces
of the joining bones. 1t was dug up on
the Forty-seventh street side. A pile
of damaged clothing was found here
In trying to separate the pieces the
workmen found inside the clothing
what was 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. It consisted of mass of char
red intestines. Besides this mass was
a thigh bone, from which all the flesh
had been burned. Near this was an
other bone, but it could not be told to
what part of the body it belonged.
These parts were found in section of
the cellar adjoining the entrance where
The remains were found yesterday.
r. C. Hoffman called at the East
Fifty-first street station to-day with
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 wo-