The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-21
RUINS give UP
MORE BODIES.
SearcherS Find Two In the
Windsor Hotel Debris.
ONE IS THAT OF A WOMAN.
Arms and Legs Missing, but Fragment Of
Silk Dress Remained on Trunk.
PORTIONS OF BODIES ARE UNCOVERED
Bones We're Chansd and Broken and Separated
From One Another Letters and 0ihsr
Articles Recovered From ha RuIns.
PORTIONS OF BODIES ARE UNCOVERED

New York, March 21.-The third body
was taken out of the ruins of the Wind
sor hotel fire this morning. It was
found on the 10Th street side OF the
ruins The body was that of woman.
Only that part of the head from the
jaw down was still on the neck. The
body was very badly mangled A molar
on the right side Of the face and an
other on the left side had been filled
with gold.
a hundred men worked all night on
the ruins. In many places the debris
was too hot 10 let the workmen begin
TO remove it.
a number OF pieces of bodies were
found during the night, bones charred
and broken and separated from one an
other. some with pieces Of burned flesh
on them. Early this morning the work
men 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 a workman found what
seemed TO be the knee cap of a child
with pieces of the joining bones. II
was dug up on the 47th stret side. A
pile OF damaged clothing was found
here. In trying 10 separate the pieces
the workmen found inside the clothing
what was believed 10 be mangled,
burned and crushed fresh and bones.
The whole mass was put in collins and
taken To the morgue.
Among the articles found in the
ruins We're a package of letters ad-
dressed to r.. @. Williams, Hotel Bruins
wick, Boston. Mass: a silk handker-
chief marked "B. NJ. d." a photograph
Of a man and woman. by s. Young. II
Union square; part of n trunk con-
tanning a history Of Ireland; "A silk
badge of the Limerick. Mems associa-
ton a pocketbook with the card of j.
II. Morris: a silver bon bon box marked
y. NJ" letter 10 j. X. Hill: a tray
marked -. +. c." A trunk marked
wv. H., 49, b" silver pin tray mark
ed IN. III. l.. W." pieces OF coin. chiefly
quarters and dimes, about s25 in all: n
bunch of letters marked &c. r.. Burke.
Standard Oil company, 26 Broadway
the back OF n silver brush marked
"Madge;" citizenship papers OF Mar
tin Malloy;" an elaborate parasol ham
die. and a great quantity Of clothing
and other smaller articles.
The description Of body No. 3 at the
morgue is as follows
The body is that Of n female. about
60 years old; small stature. arms and
limbs missing, all hair gone. second
lower back tooth, right side. filed with
gold: back tooth lower left side. gold
filed; third back tooth. left side, de-
cayed: part of q black silk dress. bead
ed trimmings. faced with white pong''
silk and white lace border: white shirt
waist. marked SO. apparently the size.
The remains OF another body were
found on the Fifth avenue side of the
ruins during the forenoon. 1t was un-
recognizable.
The work of getting into the ruins is
progressing rapidly today. The inel
have got IL feet below the surface in
some places. IL is feared they cannot
get down much farther as the suo-
cellar is flooded with water to level
of two feet above the regular cellar
floor 1t was said that the trunk stcr-
age room OF the hotel was under tho
Fifth avenue sidewalk and IL was prob
ably not reached by the fire. The
workmen, however, have been unable
To YET TeHcf-it.
Mrs. Alice Price OF Macon Ga, Mrs.
Simmons of Frederick. Md. Kate
Roach and Nelly Thomas. persons in
iured i'm the Windsor Hotel fire. were
reported today 10 be rapidly improving
and will be able 10 be out i'm a day
or two