The record-union., 1899-03-20
SEARCHING The RUINS.
BURNING DEBRIS IMPEDEs THE
WORKMEN.
List Of the Killed, Wounded and
Missing in the Windsor
Hotel Horror.

debris OF the Windsor Hotel fire in the
effort to discover the bodies supposed
to lie buried there. All day long over
2o0 men labored as much as the misty,
muddy, steIaming 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 center 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 leveled, but the
| great pillar of brick at the Forty-sev-
enth end still stood
Up to midnight no bodies had been
discovered and no more deaths from in
! juries received at the fire were report
ed from the hospitals, but a number of
the injured We're still in serious con-
dition. The death list remains the
same as yesterday-sixteen-an the
! list of missing has been reduced to
| forty three, as a number OF those previ-
ously unaccounted for reported in per-
son and had been located by friends.
The only things found during the
early part of the night We're a set of ar
| tificial teeth on a gold plate and some
articles of clothing.
| By midnight the 1aborers had exoa-
waited back from the front building
| line and to the sub-basement for dis
tance of fifteen feet. The great value
| Of jewels and jewelry in the wreck
made the men work carefully. Each
| shovelful of the refuse was careful y
examined before being placed in the
carts.
| Tonight the persons living in the
three houses nearest to the wall on
Forty-seventh street We're ordered out
by the police because of the danger Of
its being blown down by the high wind
| One of the strange sights of the day
to the police was the curiosity of the
| crowd. Sight t-seers number thousands
while daylight lasts, and even after
nightfall the number of idle visitors
was uncomfortably large.
NEW YORK, March 19.-In a driz-
| zling rain more than 200 men corr
tinued to-day to work among the debris
and smoldering ruins of the Windsor
Hotel searching for the bodies of those
who perished in the flames and took
valuables which might have escaped
| the ravages of the fire The efforts of
the searchers We're futile, however, as
the ruins were too hot to permit much
progress, and the smoke arising from
the burning material was rendered
more dense by the dampness of the
atmosphere. At intervals during the
night flames burst forth from the
burning embers and forced back the
| workmen.
,.I- hi To
molsh the fragmentary portions of
walls on the east and north sides of
the burned building, and later the
number of workers was reinforced and
the work of removing the rubbish
pushed as vigorously as was prac-
tica BILE.
The chimney, eighty-five feet high,
standing ON the Forty -sixth-street side
of the ruins near Fifth avenue, was
/ blown down to-day.
! Thirty pounds of dynamite were
placed under the base of the chimney,
and electricity was used to explode it.
| 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 a little superficial work
| When they dig down a little way the
debris is SO hot that they are oDllged
! to move to another location.
| During the day workmen were en-
gagged in picking to pieces the SIX
/ story wall that is standing on the
Forty-seventh-s street side of the hotel
! site, in order to make the search in the
ruins safe. The second eighty y-fve-foot
! chimney was dynamited at O'Clock
this afternoon. The explosion wrecked
| number of plate glass windows ana
doors in nearby residences.
| A large force of men were at work
during the afternoon on what was tue
main entrance to the hotel. 1t was
expected that bodies would be nfst
found there. A large amount of small
articles, principally the personal prop
erty of guests, was found there.
Following is a list of the missing cor
rected up to o'clock tonight:
Mrs. Mary Anglin, 45. wife of I. II.
Anglin. New York; Jane Bruit, 4O, New
York; Mrs n K. Bradley, aunt OF Mrs.
A. NJ. Fuller of Philadelphia; Aaron
Bischoffshausen, Germany; Flossle
Boyce, 8, daughter of w. S. Boyce, New
York, said to have been rescued by her
father and afterward disappeared; MRS.
M G. Brush, Mrs Boyd and daughter,
Mary Clair, Miss Egan, Miss Margaret
Fuller, daughter of A. M. Fuller OF
Philadelphia; Warren Guyon, elevator
boy: Miss Dora Hoffman, Baltimore;
Miss Jose, servant; Alexander g. Jonn-
son and wife, Newburyport, Mass;
Alice Kelly, II, servant; Fred Leland
room clerk, cousin of Warren Leland;
d. Lynch. Miss Maggie Lowry, Harry
NJ Lawrie, ID, New York; Mary Lanny'
Mrs Isabelle Mcdonald, AZ, widow,
family living in Toronto; Miss Annie
Taylor Morgan, 40, New York; Miss
Catherine, Morgan, Kate Mcconnell,
Miss McNulta, 90, New York; Lizzie
Mcdonald New York; Catherine " Nc
Carthy, New York; Henry Mccarthy,
Jennie McKenna, chambermaid, New
York; Jennie Morat, so, chambermaid,
New York; Mr.. Nash, Annie Nellie
(xnown at hotel as Annie Malloy), New
York; Mrs Paterson, wife of Judge
Paterson of Colorado; Miss Reid, Mrs.
D. S. Salamon, occupied room on fifth
floor with daughter Rosina Miss Ro-
sina Salamon, 81; Kate Shea, 40, SER
want: Mrs James B. Stokes, widow of
General Stokes; Miss Adelia Simpson,
90; Mary Sleman, %, New York; Mary
Soy, %, servant; Mary Walsh, SER
want; Annie Ward chambermaid; Mrs.
l. H. Purdy of Purdy's Station, N. \.
Miss NJ. Wait, her granddaughter, and
Eva Dressler chambermaid, reported
missing, are safe.
The hospital reports as to the injured
are most favorable Most of the patients
are improving. Some of them We're able