The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-01
TWENTY SIX YET
. uNACCOlINTED FOR
No More Bodies Recovered
From Tarrant Ruins.
ARE UNRECOGNIzABLE
Heat So Great That Human Remains
Cannot be Differentiated.
COMPANY CRIMINALLY LIABLE.
Fire Department Official Says Tarrans
Company Carried Combus,ibles
Largely in Excess OF What
Law Allowed, ,invaii'Ia-
ting the Insurance
Policies.
COMPANY CRIAllNaLLY LIABLE.
1Ex Associated Press.,

NEW YORK, octooer GA revision
made tonight of those persons missing
and thought to have perished in the en-
plosion ard fire at Tarrant and Companys
drug house. shows twenty-siN unaecouneed
for OF this number. four are not known
at the addresses given by the persons re-
porting them as missing. Out OF the whole
number, eight are put down by the police
as employees of Tarrant and Company.
Not u single body had, up to ten O'Clock
tonight. been found in the ruins. though
what looked like parts of bodies have
beer, dug out II begins to look as l.
what remains are in the mass OF debriS
which still cumners the place. Will ne
totally unrecognizable as of human com
position. even shoult, the worlSInen find
them. This is because Of the tremendous
heat caused by the explosion and the
fire and the fusion of materials. which
running together. form u mass OF ;tl
sorts of stuff
For instance, what was supposed TO %
parts OF bodies taken from the ruins lasl
night. turned cut on examination at tae
Morgue to be blackened pieces of melted
gumarabic. Again to-day another mass
WAS found, which the yorlmen frs,
thought to be human efesh. but is now
thought to be melted ruoher.
The searchers have found in the ruins
of the Home Made Hotel a number OF
articles such as books, a hat serchief. a
cigar holder etc. out whether their
owners escaped or not is unknown.
INSURANCE INVALID.
The authorities, in the meantime. are
pushing the investiga ton into the amount
of explosives stored in the building. with
a view of prosecutions. Along this line
Secretary Augustus F. Dechertx. OF the
Fire Department., speaking of the eitsise
ztfa the explosion. said to-day:
1.-THE. eombustbles carried BY The Tar
rant Company We're largely in excess of
what was allowed them by law. and their
permit granted by me tire department.. and
in consequence of this fact they have avio-
lated the law. BY violating the terms of
the permit they have eo.nrlttteed mis-
demeano.. which not onIy invaEd2tes their
insurance policies. but renders them crsnii-
nalIy liable ard responsible for the damage
10 life and property as a resu.- OF the en-
pIosion The tire Insurance companies can
not be held for the damage.
Two tors OF chlorate OF potash and one
Ton of sulphur it seems, were iii the build
ing at the time ut the fire.
II has now been decided by Fire ch;et
Croker and Fire Commissioner s-caaneit
to investigate aiI of the wholesale drug,
establishments in she city Chief Croker
said in the course OF an interview:
II know that nearly all OF these whole
sale drug houses carry explosives IN such
ouauiity as TO render them powder Enaga-
zines 10 all purposes. They are a con-
slant rrlerace 10 pt.oi.c safety. aud pro-
r>3se to see that storage houses are nlitn-
taned at q safe distance outside the city