The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-30

steaming Suiienly the ruins left by yes
terday's disastro44s fire and explosions in
Tarrant's Wholesale and retail drug house
baffied the work of the public wreeker to-
day and the task of clearing Warren,
Greenwich, and Washington streets of the
rubbish of buildings and digging down in
to the debris on the fre-swept area for the
bodies of victims proceeded haitingly-
The hundreds of men employed by Super
intendent Dooner, of the Building Depart
ment, TO look for bodies, remove the
masses of stone wood, and iron and shore
up and make safe gutted structures could
do little more this morning than attack
the outskirts of the ruins and watch the
fremen who played water on the still
glowing pile from the six lines of hose.
Up to this afternoon not body had
been recovered OF the score and half or
more which it was thought the smoldering
heaps concealed. a corpse had, however,
been seen on a second floor girder at the
rear of what had been Tarrant & Co.'S
building It was thought to be that of a
woman, but it could not be reached.
Search for the dead has been g1ing on
systematically since last night in charge
of Superintendent Dooner. High pressure
gasoline tanks were provided, and the
work OF searching the debris began late
last night At midnight Superintendent
Dooner ceased hiring men. as the district
was already congasted with searchers.
Al daybreak he said:
The fire is not ye. out, and may
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ruins of the buildings cool. We cannot
search them The men are working over
the debris, which lies from ten TO twenty
feet in height along Warren and Green
wich Streets.
Il fear that few bodies will be recov-
cred until we can get into the buildings
I do not expect to come upon the dead
before another day We are going over
this debris, lest some one might have
lived through it all. When it is worked
over, will provide carts to haul it away.
When the buildings are cooled We will g
into them.
More important than finding the dead is
the protection of the living. The force of
the explosion has impaired many buildings
in the vicinity l cannot think Of letting
men work in them while there is a posi-
biIity that they may come down. l be-
Ifeve that the buildings along the south
side of Chambers Street from Greenwich
to Washington Streets. and on Washing
ton Street. from Chambers to Warren
Streets. have Been made unfit for oceu-
pancy. They will be thoroughly examined
and until I am sure of them I viii not al
low the proprietors to open them for busi-
ness
The early work of the wreckers was Gi-
rected TO clearing the chaotic mass of those
parts of it which threatened to fall and
which made labor about them hazardous,
! By the middle of the morning, although
no deep entry had been made into the pile,
the whole mass had been pulled into a
fairly even mound and was ready to be
| cleared away.
| Superintendent Dooner said today that
his first task would be to clean up Warren
| Street, as he believed that the bodies of
some of those who were in the street at
| the time of the explosions might have
been caught by the falling walls and buried
there. He also directed Chief Inspector
O'Connor to blow up the part of the wall
! CT the seven-story building of the coffee
roasting plant, in the middle of the block,
on the south side of Warren Street, which
was still standing The ruins OF the Home
Made Hotel and the building at 275 Wash
| ington Street were also to be pulled down.
! Superintendent Dooner said that before
night he would have 1900 men al work
and that a place to dump destructible
| debris would be provided by the dock de-
| partment. The department of highways
and street cleaning expected to have sixty
| wagons at work as soon as it was possible
| to use them.
| 1t was supposed this morning that a
number of bodies would be found in the
sub-ceIIars of the wrecked buildings when
| the mass above them was cleared away.
The buildings in the neighborhood had
| many of these sub-ceIlars, using them for
| the storage of vegetables and fruit, and
| if employees were caught in any of these
| cellars when the buildings fell, they would
| certainly have been crushed CT drowned
| AS the men who worked in these cellars
were mostly Italians, it is not probable
| that. even though they were lost,
| anyone would report them missing. A
| temporary morgue was arranged for
| across the street from the Home Made
Hotel and three dead wagons" were kept
| in waiting for the bodies that it was ex-
| pected would be unearthed during the
| day.
| Tarrant G Co. and the Brietenbaeh
Chemical Company opened temporary Of
| fees this morning on the fourth floor of a
| building at 6S Murray Street Thomas F.
Mann, the president of Tarrant & Co.,
| said that all their employees had been ac-
| counted for except Benjamin Morehouse
and an office boy.
| General BENJAMIN FIagIer Dead.
NEW YORK Oct 2n-Gen Reniannin