Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-21

GOULD'S COMMENDARLE WORK.
TO BE RECOGNIZED.
New York, March pa large force
Of men worked on the ruins OF the
Windsor hotel tonight Part OF the
rear wall and chimney on the Forty
seventh street side were still standing
at a late hour. Smoke was issuing
from the chimney which extends to the
basement, showing that fire stlll
shoulders in that part of the ruins.
The workmen axcavated slowly ana
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 al
lowed by the police.
At midnight three hundred laeo1,rs
who had been digging in the ruins
were relieved by another gang of three
hundred. No other body had been
found since o'clock this morning,
when the workmen came across the re-
mains of two charred bodies.
The men worked ali day on the 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 ruin mad at
midnight been gone over from about
twenty-five feet from the building line.
The first body taken out to-day was
from the Forty-sixth street side; the
second from the Fifth avenue side,
c,ose by what had been the main en-
trance. They were merely fragments
of bodies, neither having head, feet nor
arms These fragments were taken to
in a O
as bodies 81" and %" and placed in
the section especially set aside for the
fire victims.
The bodies found were examined at
Bellevue morgue after being taken
there in the dead wagon.
Body No. / is that of man. The
trunk is nearly complete, but the legs,
arms and head are missing.
Body No. is that of a young woman.
1t is in six or seven sections. A part
Of brown kid glove with pearl but
tons was found on one hand. The
Jacket is of thibet cloth. the color OF
which is unrecognizable and the skirt
is of black serge. A black cloth but
ton on the dress is marked Made W. &
K. Company, Extra In the pocket OF
the skirt was a cent.
Hc uISl DOQN AouAd was hNe+NANSN'
1t had little flesh, but it is supposed
to be that of woman. A lock OF
long hair was found between the shout
ders when the body was turned over,
and the foot. which was found near
the body, and is supposed to be part
of it, is small and has high instep.
About fifteen minutes after the first
body was found, another was unearth-
ed in the ruins, where the Fifth avenue
entrance was. 1t was mere skeleton,
with a number of the bones broken.
1t lay on a mattress as if it had fallen
with the mattress from the upper story
OF the hotel. 1t was burned and wholly
unrecognizable The body was placed
in a coffin and no one was allowed to
see #.
A number of separate and charred
bones were found on the Forty seventh
street side of the ruins, soon after IL
o'clock They were not attached in any
way and could not be identified. The
police placed them in a coffin.
The button found on the fragment of
the body known as Body No. q" and
supposed to be the body of a woman
from IS to 20 years of age, was made
in this city. 1t is common cloth but
ton and is used only by manufacturers
of ready-made clothing. This fact and
the fact that the kid gloves are of a
poor quality, lead to the belief that the
woman was net a guest of the hotel
but an employee of the hotel.
From time to time to-day articles Of
more or less value were found anC
turned over to the police. They in
Guided iewelry, watches, clocks, canes,
articles of clothing, letters, keys, pho
tographs, field and opera glasses, sill
verware and toilet articles. A neck
lace was found on the Forty-siXth stree.
side near where the baths were. 1t
was set with diamonds and opals and
is estimated to be worth about S10,-
600.
According to the lists of missing
nroneltv nrerared by the police it be-
iopged to Mrs. James r. Stokes, who
Is missing. One of Thomas P. Ochil-
trese trunks was found, the contents
quite uniniured.
A great deal Of work was done on the
Fifth avenue sida of the hotel. The
office safe was dug out there; 1t was
uncovered and left under guard OF the
police. 1t was intact, so far as could
be told from passing observation. The
clerk of the hotel said that this was a
small safe which contained no import
ant matters. The big Office safe, he
thought, had gone through to the sub
basement and would not be found for
Some time. The big safe contains a
list of the hotel employees.
Several Of the persons hitherto re-
ported as missing were found to be
safe to-day. The present list of miss
,y-,~r
into account but few of the two hun
dred servants of the house.
Although at night the ruins are per-
factIy lit Inv electric and oil lamOs the