The record-union., 1899-03-22
Three Mere Bodies Recovered From
the Mass Of Ruins.
Were 50 Badly Charred That Difficulty is
Experienced in Identification.
The Total List of Known Dead
Now Numbers Fifteen, While
the Names of Forty-Eight Per-
sons Are Among the Missing
The Injured at the Hospitals
Recovering.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Three bodies
We're recovered from the ruins of the
| Windsor Hotel to-day. They were
badly 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 known dead, brings
the list to fifteen. The list Of missing
is still very large, numbering forty
eight persons
The injured at the hospitals are re-
covering.
| 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, that but
small part Of the ruins had been re-
moved All during the night articles
of more or less value were brought to
the surface and turned over to the po-
hcemen who We're stationed about TO
receive and take them to the station
house to await Identification All of the
most valuable of the articles are turned
/ over to the Coroners Office.
| The third body taken out of the ruins
of the Hotel Windsor was recovered
early to-day. 1t was very badly
mangled.
! 1t is officially described as the body OF
woman about 60 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
and with white lace border, white shirt
waist marked SO apparently the size,
| g St M
Dou. 221 Rue de Par" stamped in gold
on the belt The rest of the mark, evil
IDENTIFY indicating 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
A number of pieces of bodies were
found du1ins the night-bones, charred
and bqokeffg., and separated from one
another, with small pieces of burned
flesh on them.
This morning. workmen digging at the
Flfth-avenue side, near the entrance,
where the first traces Of bodies were
found, came upon a piece of pelvis
weighing about twenty pounds. Later
workman found what seemed to be
the kneecap of a child, with pieces of
the joining bones. 1t was dug up on
the Forty y-seventh-street side. A pile
of damaged clothing was found here.
In trying to separate the pieces the
workmen found besides clothing what
was believed to be mangled, burned
and crushsd flesh and bones. The
whole mass was put in coff1ns and
taken to the Morgue.
| The remains of another body were
found on the Fifth-avenue side of the
ruins. 1t consists of a mass of charred
| ntestines. Besides this mass was a
thighbone, from which all the flesh had
been burned. Near this was another
bone, but it could not be told to what
part of the body it belonged. These
parts were found in a 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 a
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 woman
found early this morning might be that
of his sister, and he asked for the body.
1t was at the Morgue. When he heard
the description of the teeth found in
the lower jaw of the woman dug out
this morning he said he was inclined to
doubt if the body was that of his sister,
as her teeth We're irregular and not
complete.
Mrs. Alice Price of Macon, Ca; Mrs.
c. Simmons of Frederick, Md; Mrs.
Kate Roach and Nellie Thomas, the
persons injured in the fire, were re-
ported to-day to be rapidly improving,
and would be able to be out in day, or
two from Bellevue Hospital, where they
were taken on the day of the fire,
The work Of getting into the ruins
progressed rapidly to-day. The men
have got twelve feet below the surface
| in some places. It is feared they cannot
get down much further, as the sub
cellar is flooded to a level of two feet
above the regular cellar floor.
The fifth body to be recovered was
taken out of the ruins on the south
west corner, and in line with the ele-
vator 1t was a charred trunk, with
the legs below the knees and the arms
below the elbows missing. The upper
part of the head was also missing.
.Opinions differ as to whether it is the
body of man or a woman, but it was
thought to be the latter. Nothing was
found near the trunk by which it
might be identified
A few minutes after the finding of
the fourth body handbag was dug
out of the ruins a few feet away. 1t
contained a small box for holding a
false teeth plate and a card with the
name of Miss M. e. Harris and adj
dress "Finsbury Pavement, E." There
was also in the bag a watch, a travel
ers clock, a bunch of keys and a
number of blank checks of the Union
Bank of London, and a number of
handkerchiefs marked 1T. A. b."
7. A. Barrett of London is one Of the
/ persons still missing.
The fifth body to be recovered was
taken out of the ruin at the southwest
corner. The body consisted of a badly
charred trunk, with the legs extending
only to the knees, and the arms only to
Ithe elbows. There was nothing found
near the trunk by which it might be
identified. 1t was generally believed
to be wonan's body.
FUNERALS OF FIRE VICTIMS.
CHICAGO, March 21.-The funeral of