The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-10-31
THE LOSS oF LIFE mas NOT YET
BEEN DETERMINED.
THIRTY-TWo ARE MISSING.
SEVERAL DIswEMBEaED BODIES
DUG FROM TEE RUINS.

New York. oct. sD.-Ali the efforts Of
the authorities are now directed 90 clean
Ing away The ruins of the Tarrant and
other buildings wrecked in the great ex-
ploslon of yesterday in the desire to md
out how many bodies are buried In them
and to ascert,hn what was the cause OF
the explosion.
The effort OF the searchers for the dead
was rewarded this evening by hnding
the remains Of H. c. A. Schmidt Of
$50 Clinton street. Brooklyn. and the dis
covery Of what looks to be the bodies Of
three other people. Schmidt was an en-
graver and had an Office on the third floor
OF i0i Warren street The body could be
see 10 pinned down under a mass OF twisted
iron. but could not BE- go, at tonight.
The naturalization was made by
nephew OF Schmidt
At the northwest corner of the Tarrant
building at Warren and Greenwich streets.
a mass OF clothing and indiscriminatc ar
ticles was come across ana the mass was
said to be the bodies of three people. The
fircmen went 10 work with a will to dig
out the mass and at 10 o'clock tonight
brought 10 light a portion OF a woman's
foot and the TOP OF a cTushed-ln skull.
The skull had long brown hair attached
and Is supposedly that OF a woman.
During to-day Superintendent Dooner
had a very large force Of men working as
hard as possible tearing down piles Of de-
bris and removing II. The hre burned all
day and toward night was practically 70
f.Fa aalaFf a a n .
ton and Warren streets. The FIRE runs
back for some distance and is burning
aercey
work on the Ruins L. slow.
There were no new workmen az work to-
night. Superintendent Dooner was using
the same force that he had had al day,
hut will get a largely increased force To-
morrow The reason assigned for having
no new men Is that the ruins are 30 hot
that few can get az them yet. and the
men have 20 work outside walls and
debris In the streets.
There has been found 10 be much diii-
Guilty iu getting contractors carts IN
Warren and Greenwich streets. What
space Is not used by FIRE engines f. nearly
all taken up with piles OF debris and only
one cart can back in at a time. thus al
l3wlng only one load 10 be removed. Al
the Washington street end more carts can
be. utilized. and the work j. progressing
much more rapidly.
Deputy Commissioner OF Sewers Dono-
hue. with two inspectors from his depart
mcnt. was at the scene Of the hro to-
night. II had been feared that the sewers
would become c.oEgcd wlth debris and
cause the water 20 form stagnant ponds
around the ruins. The inspectors exam
ins-i the sewers and said that they We're
remarkably clear from debris. and that
with the exception OF few "elbows'
which were clogged. they were an right.
one hundred and eighty patrolmen. un-
der Capt Westervclt ana Inspector
Brooks. were stationed az the ruins at
O'Clock. relieving the dry force.
Loss OF Life Stn in Doubt.
Both Inspector Brooks and Capt. West
ervelt were skeptical over the reported
large loss Of ilfe. They both sad they
AID not expect more than four or nve
bodies would be found IN the ruins.
Playing on the still burning ruins were
four engines. and they kept their streams
going continually.
A revised list made up at 10 o'clock to-
night, shows thirty-two persons san miss
ing.
At 1870 O'Clock tonight a portion Of
human trunk. probably the abdomen. was
dug OUT. and a little later a brown canvas
IT,
but four quill toothpicks sim .oter the
firemen found another portion Of skull
and a norton Of a human back.
DR. Conner. Of the health department,
who examined sho remains, said they were
probably All from the same person. as
were the foot and portion OF a skull found
earlier.
The remains we're all found In the Tar
rant building.
Explosion II n Mystery.
President Thomas +. Main OF Tarrant &
Co. said to-day.
'In our own stock We had no ether. or
az most no more than few pounds, we
had no benzine ana no collOdl0n. Nhsn
Ne needed any OF these articles to fll or
ders we bought Il from dealers. We had
very little alcohol IN stock. uotwithstand-
ing the fact that We use "A considerable
quantity OF Il in making our perfumes.
We had absolutely no nitro-glycerine and
no gunpowder.
IAN our employees but two have been
accounted for. We employed twenty mrn
and fifteen women. william Moorehouse.
, shlppinr clerk. and a boy. who were
employed on an upper floor are missing.
Two ~ our men say they saw McorehouEe
ln the street after the last explosion.
som. one said the boy had been 20 the
cashier TO get car fare 20 80 on an errand
a short time before the hre. ftlH fanny
hoUever says he did not 20 hoDe last
night. We fear he was lost in the build
ing" -.
Mr. Main said that Tarrant and Com
nany stored on the third and fourth
eoors large amounts Of stun for other
d~ng concerns. Among thr." said MI.
Main was much chlorate OF potash. and
MS may have caused the explosion. I'm
inclined 10 think Il did.
while the chlorate OF potash r. not ex-
ploeivc itself. Il is explosive when con-
nccted bv IRE or other means with other
drugs or acids md u g. on this very
theory that the experts are now working
10 deterine Just how the explosion might
have been caused.
Just before midnight a workman found q
black chcviot coat IN the exact spot
where the human remains had been found
In the pockets were found four cents and
an application for memhershp In the
west End Republican Club.
shortly afterward. IN the same place.
an entirely unrecognizabl be mass Of humBn
aesh was found A half coat was also
found az this time,
rhe laborers stopped work az midnight
,nd a new gang was started.
List of the Missing.
Following Is the revised list OF missing: