The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-21
CORPS[S AND JEWELS
Discoveries In Ruins Of the Windsor
Hotel.
TWO BODIES TAKEN OUT
BUT BOTH WE'RE BURNED BE-
YoND RECOGNITION.
One Was That of Man and the
Other of Young Woman-Neck-
lace Valued at $4,000 Found By
Workmen, But the Owner Perished
In the Fire.

New DIRK, March 2U.-A large force
of men worked in the ruins of the
Windsor hotel tonight. Part of the
rear wall and chimney on the Forty
at a late hour. Smoke was issuing from
the chimney, which extends to the
basement, showing that fire still smoul-
ders in that part of the ruins. The
Workmen excavated slowly and with
great care. The debris was thrown
from the space occupied by the hotel
to the sidewalk. Crowds pressed as
close to the ruins as they were allowed
by the police. At midnight 800 laborers
who had been digging in the ruins were
relieved by another gang of 800. No
other body had been found since 8
o'clock in the morning, when the men
came across the remains of two charred
bodies.
The men worked all day ON three sides
of the old hotel, Fifth avenue, Forty
sixth and Forty-seventh streets.
From the three sides on which the
workmen are engaged the ruins had at
midnight been gone over for about
twenty feet from the building line
The first body taken out today was
from the Fortysixth street side; the
second from the Fifth avenue side,
close by what had been the main en-
trance. They were merely fragments
of bodies. Neither have feet nor arms.
These fragments were taken to the
morgue, where they We're ticketed as
bodies 80 and 81" and placed in the
section especially set aside for the fire
victims. These two bring the total
number of bodies SO far recovered up
to twelve Besides these there are at
least six persons who were seen to
jump from the roof and windows while
the hotel was burning, and of whose
bodies no trace has yet been come upon.
The first body found was discovered
by the worknen on the Forty-siXth
side of the ruins, ten feet from the
sidewalk. The first seen OF it was the
skeleton of the breast, including the
with nearly all the flesh on it was
found. 1t appeared to be severed from
the leg by the falling of some heavy
piece of debris.
A second body was found in the debris
where the office has been. It, like the
first, was burned beyond recognition.
The bodies were examined at Bellevue
nergae> Body NosA1 is that of man
The trunk is nearly complete, but the
legs, arms and head are missing. Body
No. 2 is that of a young woman. 1t is
in six or seven sections. A part of a
brown kid glove with pearl buttons was
found on one hand. The jacket is of
Thibet cloth, the color of which is un-
recognizable, and the skirt is of a black
serge. a black cloth button on the
dress is marked Made w. HI. K. Co.,
Extra In the pocket of the skirt was
a cent.
From time to time today articles of
more OF less value We're found and
turned over to the police. They in
cluded jeweiry, watches, clocks, canes,
articles OF clothing, letters, keys, pho
tographs, field and opera glasses, sill
verWare and toilet articles. A necklace
was found on the Fcrty-sixth street
side, near where the baths were. 1t
was set with diamonds and opals and
estimated to be worth about $4,000.
According to the lists of missing prop
erty prepared by the police, it be-
longed to Mrs James R. Stokes, who is
missing. One of Thomas, P. Ochiltree's
trunks was found, the contents quite
uninjure,l.
Several of the persons hitherto re-
ported as missing were found to be
safe today. The present list of missing
numbers forty-four. This, however,
takes into account but few of the 200
servants of the house.
Chief Benner said he believed the
fire started somewhere near the big
water tank ON the roof, calculated to
hold 5000 gallons. which was near the
court ON the Forty sixth street side;
that this tank dropped into the hotel
and made a hole big enough to give the
flames. which had already obtained
good headway, plenty of play.
The crash of this tank was what was
generally supposed to be the first ex-
plosion. The accidental explosion from
the conbustive materials in the build
ing came a little later. This theory
would contradict the statement of Miss
GOuld's chef, that he saw flames near
the flagstaff, on the west side of the
building, but everything now tends to
show that the fire began on the east
side of it.
Fire Commissioner Scannell today sent
to Miss Helen Gould letter in which he
informed her that in view of the services
rendered by her on the occasion of the
Windsor hotel fire. he intended to present.
to her gold badge which would entitle
her to enter the fire lines at any fire that
may occur in Greater New York. An
other badge will be presented to Frank
j. Gould, who aided his sister at the fire.