The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-21
TWO BODIES FOUND
In the Windsor Hotels Ruins,
Neither Recognizable.
MANY ARTICLES OF VALUE
Reward the Search--Work
Done With Bare Hands

New York, March "a large force OF
men worked on the ruins Of the Windsor
hotel tonight. Part OF rear wall and
chimney on the Forty-seventh street side
was still standing at late hour. Smoke
was issuing from the chimney, which ex-
bends to the basement. showing that fire
stin shoulders in that part Of the ruins.
The debris was thrown from the space
occupied Oy the hotel 70 the sidewalk.
Crowds pressed as close 10 the ruins as
the were allowed by the police. At mid
hight 800 laborers who had been digging
an the ruins were relieved by another gang
of 300. Another body has been found since
o'clock in the morning, when the work
men came across the remains Of TWO
Charred bodies.
The men worked all day on three sides
of the old hotel, Fifth avenue. Forty
sixth and Forty-seventh streets. From
the three sides on which the workmen are
engaged the ruins had, at midnight, been
gone over for about twenty-five teet from
the building lire. The first body taken
out today was from the Forty-sixth side;
the second from the Fifth avenue side;
close by what had been the main en-
trance. They were merely fragments of
bodies. Neither have feet nor arms.
These fragments were taken TO the
morgues, where they were ticketed as
bodies "1' and 80" and placed in the
section especially set aside for the fire
victims. These two bring the total num-
Der Of bodies so far recovered up to p
sons who were seen TO jump from the roof
and windows while the hotel was burn
ing, and of whose bodies no trace has yet
been come upon.
From time to time today articles Of
more or less value We're fodnl and turned
over to the police. They included iewelry,
watches, clocks, canes, articles of cloth
ing. letters, keys, photogra phs, field and
opera glasses, silverware and toilet arti-
cles. A necqlace was found on the Forty
sixth street side near where the baths
We're. 1t was set with diamonds and
opals and estimated to be worth about
$1,000. According 10 the lists Of missing
property prepared by the po%ce, it be-
longed to Mrs. James r. Stokes, who IS
missing. One Of Thomas p. Ochiltree's
trunks was found, the contents quite IN
injured.
Several OF the persons hitherto report
ed as missing were found safe today. The
present list of missing numbers "a This
however, takes into account but few Of
the 200 servants of the house.
Although at night the ruins are per-
fectly lit by electric and oil lamps the
men work. under disadvantage as COM
pared with the day men and proceeds
slowly. At midnight the contractors
thought that many Do1 e5 would be come
upon tomorrow, by when time a sui
iicient space VIII have been cleared away
10 allow a larger numoar Of me mo work
TO advantage.
No picks or shovels are allowed the
laborers. They remove the debris with
their hands Were the debris taken up
by the shovelfUl Jewelry and other prop
erty might thus be thrown unseen into
the carts to be cast away among the
waste heaps. Whatever is found in this
progress isturned over TO the police and
taken to a little shauty in Fifth avenue,
where Roundsman Nugent has establish
ed headquarters and a property bureau.
Lest the wOrkmen secret about their per
sons jewelry and other valuable they
come across in their labor, they are care
fully searched after they stop work and
are allowed 10 leave the ground. The
hotel safe has been found uninjured. II
has not been opened.
a relief bureau last evening. Four long
tables were spread in her kitchen, boilers
OF coffee were put on the range. ham
sandwiches were cut in the laundry and
all the men employed at work on he
ruins were invited 20 stop for refresh
InentS. This act of kindness was thor
oughly appreciated by the tired and hum
CRY workmen. Frank Gould was around
personally to see that nobody that ap-
piled went away hungry. The damage 10
the Gould house is about sl0o0o.
All sorts OF theories are current as to
the origin OF the fire. One very persis-
tent story IS that thieves set h~e 70 the
hotel to aid them I'm purposes Of robbery
Mrs. Patterson, wife of Judge Patter-
son Of Colorado, is among the many per-
sons who are being inquired for by
friends and of whom 10 udings have been
received since the burning Of the Wind
sor hotel.
Helen GOuld's Reward Of Merit,
New York. March 20.-Fire Commission