The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-22
CHARRED BODIES FOUND
Three More Taken From the
Windsor Hotel Ruins.
CAN NOT IDENTIFY THEM
Four Hundred Men Are at Work and 1t
viii Take Week to Finish the
Task = The Injured Are
Recovering.

New York, March 2l.-Three bodies
We're recovered from the ruins of the
Windsor hotel to-day. They were bad
~ charred and great difficulty is being
experienced in the identification. There
are now five bodies at the morgue. each
tagged with a number which, with the
uead known, brings the list to l.. The
llst OF missing is still very large, num-
berins as persons. The injured at the
hospitals are ali recovering.
Although the work of clearing away
the debris is progressing as rapidly as
possible, it seems tonight, when the
shift of 400 men was made. that but a
small part of the ruins had been re-
moved An effort was made to pull
down the section of the rear wall by
means of a cable. but it was unsuccess-
tul. Lines are drawn all around the
ruins and the big crowds that still
gather are kept at a distance The
streets about the ruins are mpassa Bile
and the debris is piled to a height OF
10 or 70 feet on the Fifth avenue side
on the Forty-seventh street side the
pile is even more formida BILE The work
men have succeeded in clearing away
considerable of the debris for a dis
tance OF about 20 feet toward the in
terror of the mass and to a distance
downward over this territory to the
ceiling of the cellar. They had struck
al intervals what appeared to be parti-
tlon walls and tonight are digging
around them toward the ground.
Ihe servants of the hotel were for
the most part on the top floor of the
forty-seVenth street side. and the
Worknen have unearthed many arti-
cles OF cheap clothing and cheap Jew
elry as WELL which evidently belonged
to the domeSticS
1t was estimated that at the speed
with which the work is progressing at
present 1t will be at least a week be-
fore the pile will have been gone over
and it may be longer.
All during the night articles of more
or less value were brought to the sur
race and turned over to the policemen,
who We're stationed about to receive
number them and take them to the
East Fifty-first street station house to
await identification All of the most
valuable of the articles are turned over
to the coroner's Office officials
The third body taken out of the ruins
was found early to-day. 1t was very
badly mangled. II is officially described
as the body of woman about so years
of age, of small stature
A hundred men worked all night on
was too hot to permit of work A num-
Der OF pieces of bodies We're found dur
ing the night, bones charred and
broken and separated from one an
other with some pieces of burned flesh
on them.
This morning workmen digging at 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 a
workman found what seemed to be the
knee cap of child with pieces of the
joining bones. II was dug up on the
Forty seventh street side A pile of
damaged clothing was found here. In
trying to separate the pieces the work
men found besides clothing what was
believed to be manglod. burned and
crushed flesh and bones. The whole
mass was put in collins and taken to
the morgue,
Thomas Clifton, the porter of the hO-
tel, thinks that the body known as body
No. is that of Mrs. AuZee. a guest of
the hotel He formed this opinion from
the beaded clothes that We're on the
body. Clifton also thinks that body
No. is that of n chambermaid named
Annie, who worked on the floor where
Mrs. Auzee roomed.