Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-31
BUT FOUR BODIES
So Far Located in Ruins of
New York Fire.
Remains Of Man and Three Unknown
People Sighted in Debris.
Fire Still Burning FierceIy Searching Force
Will Be Increased.

New York. oct. 30.-All the efforts of
cleaning away the ruins of the Tar
rant and other buildings wrecked in
the great explosion of yesterday in the
desire to find out how many bodies are
buried and To ascertain the cause Of
the explosion. The efforts of the
searchers of the dead We're rewarded
this evening, by the finding Of the re-
mains of II. &. A. Schmidt of so Clin-
ton street Brooklyn. and the discovery
of what seems to be the bodies Of three
people. Schmidt was an engraver and
had an office on the third floor Of 101
Warren street. The body could be
seen pinned down under a mass of
twisted iron but could not Be reached.
tonight.
At the northwest corner Of the Tar
rant building At Warren and Green
W!ch streets mass of clothing and
indiscriminate articles. was come
across and the mass was said to be
the bodies of three people Tho fire.
men went To work with viii to dig
out the MAJ. and. at 10 o'clock to-
night, brought 70 light a portion of a
woman'S foot ana the top Of 4 crush
od-in skull with long brown hair.
During today. Very large force Of
men was mt work removing the debris.
The fire burned All day ana toward
night was practically 10 the "nd Of the
mass Of debris at Washington and
Warren streets at the northeast corner.
The fire extends back Tor some dis
tance and is still fiercely burning.
AhA1,.. en- hali.l f.
mendous amount of twisted iron. i'm
mense piles Of mortar and bricks.
reaching nearly 20 feet in the air
There We're no new men at work. l-
night. Surt. poon.r was using the
same force that he had had all day
but, tomorrow. viii get q largely i'll
creased force.
AT 1890 O'Clock. a portion of hui
man body, probably thu abdomen. was
dug ont. ana. a little later. 4 brown
canvass coat. Nothing was found in
the pockets but four quill toothpicks.
Still later the fremen found another
portion of 4 skull. and 4 portion Of a
human back. Dr. Conner u the health
department. who examined the re
mains. said they We're probably all
from the same person. as We're the hu-
man foot and portion Of 4 skull found
earlier.
The remains We're all found in the
Tarrant building.
Chief Croker Of the fire department.
says that the work of digging out the
dead has hardly begun. He believes
that the greater number of dead Will
be found on the streets whore the fall
ing walls buried them and the fire
charred their bodies. He believes. TOO.
that the buildings contain more bodi :
than most persons would be likely TO
admit.
Charles Francis Buckley. son of the
proprietor of the Home Made hotel.
told a story. today. that convinces the
police that the walls fell on more than
one victim. When the explosion occur
red II men and women. known as the
might shift" were asleep on the top
floor of the hotel. There We're also
many men and women who live out of
the city who were registered at the
hotel No one in New York knows
whe Their these patrons escaped or not.
because few, if any of them have rel
atives or friends here.
Just before midnight, a workman
found a black cheviot coat where the
human remains had been found earlier
in the evening. Shortly afterward. in
able mass of human flesh was found
Ii could not be learned what portion Of
the body ii was.