The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-19
REMOVING THE DEBRIS.


begun late tonight when a gang, of 200 ex-
perienced contractors were put to work
The timbers and the bricks were so hot
and the smoke so thick that the work
progressed very slowly. Gasoline tanks
and electric light plants were placed in
various places. The men devoted most of
their time to the Fifth avenue and Forty
sixth street sides. AS they cleared away
the outer portion of the debris and got
to the building proper, they found por-
lions Of the ground floor still intact Up
to late hour the only articles found to
reward the laborers were three battered
trunks partly filled with clothing.
In front of the hotel, where the balcony
nad stood, and where the structure had
been eight stories high, there was a pile
OF bricks and twisted iron supports forty
feet high. The wall of this part fell
neither In nor out. 1t collapsed and fell
on itself With it's fall, which was early
In the fire, all hope for any one left in
the building was gone. How many had
managed to reach the doorway when it
fell will never be known until the mass
is cleared away. That will be several
days.
The men who are clearing the wreck
Will work under the inspection Of police
ana corps of inspectors to guard
against them making away with any val
uables they may find. Nearly every
guest lost money or Jewels Several lost
many thousands of dollars worth of dia-
monds. Near the ruins a little building
has been erected rs an Office of the in
spectors. To this all valuables will be
taken. The men as they go off duty will
be called into this place and searched for
valuables No laborer will be permitted
to leave his work and go outside the lines
or communicate with any person inside
the lines while at work
The last will and testament of Ben
jauain Jones, executed May II, 1894. was
found this afternoon. 1t disposed of a
| quarter of a million dollars in property.
Attached to 1t was a codicil which pro-
vides for the disposition of other prop
erty. The will turned over to the
building department. Near the same
| spot some railroad bonds were picked
| up. They were wet and badly burned.
| What bonds they were could not be de-
| termined.
BODIES IN THE RUINS.
Some of the bodies in the ruins NAV be
recovered by Monday or Tuesday. IT
will take a week to get at some of tham.
and perhaps 1t will take twice that long
| to get at those in the cellar. Every prep
| ration has been made for the HANDLING
OF bodies. Wagons with stretchers will
be inside the lines. and the coroner will
tSthe charge OF the DOQleS at once
/ The home of Helen Gould was a point
of interest today to sightseers Hun
| dreds who managed to get inside the
| lines waited around in hope of CATCHING
a glimpse of the woman whose charita.
| bic acts yesterday and today were sc
| spontaneous. The police threw guard
around the house. 1t had been slightly
damaged by fire. Miss Gould and he,
brother, Frank. occupied the house Fri.
day night. although they had permitted
1t to be turned into hospital and more1e
during the fire.
! Today three men were slightly hur-
whiles working about the walls. The,
were taken to the Gould home and wait
| ed there until the arrival of an ambu
lance
NOVELIST GUNTHER MISSING.
Archibald Clavering Gunther, the wei
known novelist. was a patron of tn,
| Windsor hotel. and 1t is feared by friend.
who have not seen him since the fire
that he lost his life with his child Col
Thomas Ochlltree said tonight
MIR. Gunther was in my apartment:
an hour before the fire, and 1 have M
doubt that his body will be discovered
! In the ruins of the hotel. He was a very
large. stout man. and was a constan