Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-20
Two Hundred Men Searching in
Ruins Of Windsor Hotel.
F0RTY-F0uR ARE MISSING.
Death List sun Numbers sixteen
Vast Amount OF Jcw.iry
In HUNS.

New York. March i9.-Iittlc progress
was made today In removing the debris
Of the Windsor hotel IRE In the EFFORT
TO discover the bodies supposed 10 lie
buried there. All day Ions over 200
men laborcd as much as the misty,
muddy, streaming mass % broken
stones. twisted Iron ana crushed brltk
would permit. \ heavy, sitting
yapor arose continually. rvtnrding pro-
grcas and keeping workers cor tho most
part away from the center OF the ruins.
From Firth avenue much Of the debris
that had fallon Into the street had been
cleared away and the men were able
to reach a portion Of the nfHt il0Or.
What small portions of wall could be
blasted down were ievclcd. but the
great pillar Of brick at the Forty
seventh street end Htill stood.
Up to midnight no bodies had been
discovered nnd no more deaths from
Injuries received at the nfr were TO-
ported from the hospitals. but n num-
bor Of the injured were Htill In SORT
GUS condition.
The death Hist -omnlnn the same as
yesterday Aixtcon-and the list OF
~ "A number OF those previously un-
accounted Tor reported In person OF had
been located by friends.
The only things found during the
early part Of the night were set u
artificial Tech on gold plato and
some articles of clothing. By midnlght
the lnhofcTH had cNcnYated back from
the front building line and 60 the sub
basement for n distance ~ fifteen feet.
The great value ~ Jewels and jrwelry
In the wreck made the men work care
fully. Each Hhovelful OF the refuse
was carefully examined before being
placed In thu carts.
Tonight the persons living In tho
three houses nearest 10 the wall on
Forty-soyonth street were ordered out
by the police because Of the danger
ON III being blown down by ,ho high
wind.
one OF the strange sights Of the day
10 the police was the curiosity o. the
crowd. SightHeorA numbered thou
sands, while daylight listed, aud even
after niRhtfnli the number Of idle viai-
tors was uncomfortably large.
A. 4. Domoreht called at tho East
Fifty-firat street police station ana
reported that he had small safe hlled
with Jewels. valued al $4,000. In tho
ruins OF the IRE. lie. his wife and
daughter aud son occupied rooms on
the third floor near lfifth avenue and
Forty-sevonth street. They were all In
their rooms when the fire occurred. Ills
daughter, when the ilre was discovered,
went 10 the small safe containing the
Jewels and tried 10 open IL, but forgot
the combination In her excitement,
Alr. Demoreat stated that when he
opened the door 10 his room, he saw
three mon running about In the smoke
and going into rooms. They were not
iircmon. and he was certain they were
not employees. He thinks they were
robbers. Ito ana his family then went
out on the frc-eHcnpe and were rescued
nv fremen. Air, Dcmorcat was APP
prehenslye about the safety Of the safe
and It's ynlunblos,
Thomas Cleary Of Oh Third avenue
called on Inspector Harley and stated
that he assisted woman from tho
hotel. whom he aftorward mcertalncd
WAS Mrs, Abner Mckinley, He took
her To- the street and put her IN n cab.
Mrs. Mckinley. told him that she had
dropped bag containing some Jewell
ry lie ran back AMI got the bag and
rave II to Mrs, Mckinley and ahe drove
IN. Inspector Harley held cleary In
order to verify the story. or three