The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-20
NO MORE BODIES FOUND
NUMBER OF MISSING REDUCED
TO FoRTY-FoUR.
Steam and Heat Retarded the Labors
of the Workingmen - Pulling
Down the Dangerous Walls and
Chimneys =, Debris Is Carefully
Examined For Jewels.

buried there. All day long over 200
men labored as much as the misty,
muddy, steaming mass of broken
stones, twisted iron and crushed brick
would admit. A heavy. sitting vapor
arose continually, retarding progress
and keeping the workers for the most
part away from the centre of the
ruins. From Fifth avenue much of the
debris that had fallen into the street
had been cleared away and the men
were able to reach a. portion of the
first floor. What small portions of
wall could be blasted down were level
ed, but the great pillar of brick at the
Forty street end still stood.
Up to midnight no bodies had been
discovered and no more deaths from
injuries received at the fire We're re-
ported from the hospitals, but num-
bers OF the injured were still in a seri
Gus condition.
The death list remains the same as
observation-disclosures the list of
missing has been reduced to forty
four as a number of those previously
unaccounted for had been located by
friends.
The only things found during the
early part of the night were a set of
artificial teeth on gold plate and some
articles of clothing.
BY midnight the laborers had exca-
waited back from the front building line
and to the sub basement for a distance
of fifteen feet.
The great value of jewels and jewelry
in the wreck made the men work care
fully. Each shovelful of the refuse
was carefully examined before being
placed in the carts.
Tonight the persons living in the
three houses nearest to the wall on
Forty-seventh street were ordered out
by the police because of the danger
of it's being blown down by the high
wind.
One of the strange sights of the day
to the police was the curiosity of the
crowd. Sightseers number thousands
while daylight lasts and even after
nightfall the number of idle visitors
was uncomfortably large.
CHIMNEYS DYNAMITED.
Work was begun this morning to de-
molish the fragmentary portions of
walls on the east and north sides of
the burned building and later the num-
Der of workers was reinforced and the
work of removing the rubbish pushed
as vigorously as was practicable. The
chimney, eighty-five feet high, stand
ing on the Forty-siXth street side of
Il
up today. Thirty pounds of dynamite
We're placed under the base of this
chimney and electricity was used to
explode lit.
Smoke and steam still rise from the
debris and now and then tongues of
flames shoot up, even at this late hour
after the fire. The workmen have been
able to do only little superficial work.
When they dig down a little way
- 1.J1 tI,o+
obliged TO move to another locality.
During the day Workmen were en-
gagged in picking to pieces the six
story wall that is standing on the
Forty-sevent street side of the hotel
site, in order to make the search in the
ruins safe. aI91
The SECOND eighty-fve-foot chimney
was dynamited shortly after o'clock
this afternoon. The explosion wrecked
d number of plate glass windows and
doors in nearby residences.
a large force of men were at work
during the afternoon on what was the
main entrance toIthe hotel. 1t was ex-
pected that bodies would first be found
there. A large amount of small arti-
cles principally the personal property
of guests, was found.
Daniel Sweeney, the emergency
wrecker of the building department,
from injury and possibly death about
5 o'clock The four men were on top
of the six-story wall, which was still
standing, on the Forty-seventh street
rear corner of the hotel, tearing it
down. A stiff north wind blew up
and Sweeney felt the wall
beneath him. He cried out
a warning and the men hurried from
their dangerous perch. They were just
section of the wall, thirty or more feet
square, and including that portion on
which they had been working, went
down with a roar. A portion of it fell
on the roof of the house back of the
hotel, wrecking the roof. The house
had been emptied by order of the
building department, and nobody was
injured.
LIST OF MISSING.
Following is a list of the missing,
up to s o'clock tonight:
Angenlin, Mrs. Mary, As; wife of T.
Fl. Angenlin.
Bruit, Mary, 40 years; New York.
Brady, Mrs. n. K, aunt of Mrs. A.
NJ. Fuller of Philadelphia.
Bischoffshausen, Aaron, Germany.
Boyce, Flossie s.; daughter of w. S.
Boyce, New York; said to have been
rescued by father, and afterwards dis
S Brush, Mrs. M G.
Boyd, Mrs, and daughter
Clair Mary.
Egan, Miss.
Fuller, Miss Margaret, daughter of
A. NJ. Fuller of Philadelphia.
Guyon, Warren, elevator boy.
Hoffman, Miss Dora Baltimore.
Jose, Miss, servant.
Johnson, Alexander B., and wife,
NeWburyport, Mass.
Kelly, Alice. II years; servant.
Leland, Fred, room clerk; cousin of
Warren Leland.
Lynch, D.
Lowry, Miss Maggie.
Lawrie, Harry NJ, % years; New
York.
Lanny, Mary
Mcdonald, Mrs. Isabella, AZ, widow; |
'amily live at Toronto.
Morgan. Miss Annie Taylor, 40 years; |
New York.
Morgan, Miss Catherine.
Mcconnell, Kate.
McNulty Miss NJ. c., SO years; New |
York.
Mcdonald, Lizzie, New York.
Mccarthy, Catherine ", New York
Mccarthy, Henry.
McKenna, Jennie chambermaid; |
New York.
Morat, Jennie, 80 years, chamber
maid; New York.
Nash, Mr..
Nellie, Annie Q1nown at hotel as
Annie Mally), New York.
Patterson, Mrs. wife of Judge Pat
erson of Colorado. /
Reid, Miss.
salamon, Mrs. D. S.; occupied room
n fifth floor with daughter Rosina.
Salamon, Miss Rosina, 81.
Shea, Kate, 40: servant
Stokes, Mrs. James B., widow of Gen.
raj Stokes
Simpson, Miss Adelia, 20 years.