The evening times., 1899-03-21
TWO MORE VICTIMS
OF THE HOLOCAUST
Taken From the Windsor HO-
tel Ruins This Morning.
One Body Identified as That Of Miss
Hoffman, of Baltimore.
Central Portion of the Wreck still
Too Hot to Permit DigEers
to Werk.

New York. March 21.-Two more bodies
were found in the ruins of the Windsor
Hotel this morning This makes the num-
ber known to be dead fifteen. One was
that of a headless woman. Both bodies
were horribly chsrred and mutilated.
The body OF the woman has been identi-
fed as that of Miss Hoffman, Of Baltimore.
1t was discovered by workman on the
Forty-sixth Street side OF the building,
about 100 feet east of Fifth Avenue.
The body was frightfully mangled. The
skull had been crushed in. but the lower
part of the face was intact. The arms and
legs barely held TO the body, while the
head was completely severed from the
shoulders. Two teeth on the lower jaw,
one on each side. were gold filled. The
clothing worn was so -charred that the po-
lice could not tell of what material it had
been made About the head and shoulders.
however, was the remains Of a beaded
wrap.
Miss Hoffman occupied room No. 545 on
the fifth floor of the hotel. She was sixty
two years of age, and as soon as the news
OF the fire reached Baltimore her relatives
realized the probability of her being burn
ed TO death. They telegraphed at once to
a detective agency in this city and re-
quested that all bodies recovered from the
ruins be closely inspected by detective
in order that that OF Miss Hoffman might
be secured. Every body which had been
recovered was thoroughly examined by the
detectives placed on watch, but not until
this morning did one resembling the aged
woman in any degree appear.
The relatives forwarded for the purpose
of aiding in the Identification chart made
by dentist showing different hllings IN
serted a year ago by a dentist in Chi
cago. A detective examined the body and
found the plate made by the dentist and
the teeth remaining in the severed head
10 correspond almost exactly. de nouhed
the woman's relatives in Baltimore By
telegraph. The body was removed TO the
morgue whore ii WAS found that SIX ol
the upper teeth were missing. Ihey were
there when Detective Miller made his eX-
animation, and ii is presumed that they
were lost while The body was in transit
from the hotel to the morgue.
The less of the six teeth, however, rem
dered the dentists chart almost useless,
but il is believed by the detective that
there is enough left Of other evidence TO
establish the identity beyond doubt when
the relatives of Miss Hoffman reach the
city.
The army Of men at work on the ruins
have a grievance, against the contractors
and threatened to strike this morning.
They want double pay for overtime Their
demands VIII probably be acceded to- The
central part of the ruins is still too hot
TO be touched, and may be for thirty-six
hours or longer.
Scattered among the diggers are half a
score Of fremen and forty policemen. Each
policeman watches three or four laborers.
This was TO prevent any dishonest men
who might be among them from stealing
jewelry. The workmen have now succeed
Cd in reaching the cellar almost all the
way around the edge CT the building. They
are constantly finding small trinkets,
which are turned over to the police.