The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-21

down was still on the neck. The body
was badly mangled.
1t is officially described as that of
woman about so years old, small stat
ure, limbs missing; 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;
band of silk dress waist marked 'Dou
221 Rue de Par stamped in gold on the
belt. The rest of the mark evidently in
dicating 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 there.
A number of pieces of bodies were found
during the night-boneS charred and
broken and separated from one another,
some with pieces of burned flesh on
them. Early this morning workmen
digging on the Fifth avenue side near
the entrance, where the first traces of
bodies were found, came upon a piece
of pelvis weighing about two pounds.
Later workman found what seemed
to be the kneecap of a child, with
pieces of the joining bones. 1t was dug
up the Forty-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.
The whole mass was put in collins and
taken to the morgue.
The remains of another body were
found on the Fifth avenue side of the
ruins. 1t consisted of a mass of charred
inteStineS. Beside this mass was
thigh bone 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 eel
lar adjoining the entrance where the
remains were found yesterday
r. c. Hoffman called at the east 51st
street station today 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. It 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, her
teeth were irregular and not complete.
Miss Alice Price of Macon, Ga, Mrs.
c. Simmons of Frederick, Md, Mrs.
Kate Roach and Nellie Thomas, the
persons injured in the fire were report
ed today to be rapidly improving and
will be able to be out in a day or two
from Bellevue hospital where they were
taken on the day of the fire. The work
of getting into the ruins is progressing
rapidly. The men have got u feeG be-
low the surface in some places. 1t is
feared they cannot get down much fur
ther as the sub-cellar is flooded with
water to a level two feet above the reg
ular cellar floor.
The fifth body to be recovered was
taken out of the ruins on the south
west, corner and in line with the eleva-
tor. 1t was a charred trunk with the
legs belowsthe knees and the arms be-
low the elbows missing. The upper
part of the head was missing.
Opinions differ as to- whether twas
the body of a man a woman, but it
was thought to be the latter. Nothing
was found near the trunk by which it
might be identified.