The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-01
FAIL 70 Find ANY BODIES
Search Reveals No Victims Of the
New York Explosion.
Bundles Sent to the MorEue. Labeled
Human Remains. Found to Contain
a Lot of RubbisI-The Official In
veStiEntion as to the Cause OF
the Disaster still in Progress.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Fragments Of
what were supposed to be human bodies
were taken from the ruins OF the Warren
Street fire late on Tuesday night and early
! this morning and it was officially record
ed on the police blotter that the removal
of the dead had begun. A temporary
morgue had been established in the base
ment OF the Irving National Bank and
several pine collins sent there to be ready
when victims of the explosion were found.
The fragments were put in one of the
collins and sent to the morgue at the foot
of East Twenty-sixth Street. There they
were examined by Morgue Keeper Jack
son. He found seven bundles wrapped in
newspapers and each bundle labeled. The
| largest bundle was marked as the trunk
of body, but when opened and examined
was found to contain mass of molten
capsules, wood clothes. and gum. The
other bundles we're made up of much the
same material. In none was there any
part of human body.
The entire mass CT unidentified sundries
was placed in side room at the morgue
and the keeper says that the owners can
have them without proving property. A
crowd of undertakers who had gathered
in front of the morgue door with the hope
of getting a job. went away saying things
when they heard what was in the package.
At 10 o'clock this morning the official
investigation as to the cause of the eXplo-
sion was begun by Fire Marshal Seery.
The witnesses subpoened were Thomas
L. Main, President of Tarrant & Co.; w.
G.. Allen, Secretary and Treasurer of the
company; Hugo Linberg, boy employed
by the company who discovered the fire,
and E. G. Wells, CT Breitenbach & Co..
who occupied the second and third stories
Of the Tarrant Building.
Mir. Allen said he knew sulphur was
stored in the building. but did not know
the quantity. When asked to give the
Names of the outside firms that stored
chemicals in the building, Mr.. Allen said
he would have to refuse to mention
names. Z. G.. Wells, Of Breitenbach
Co., said the only explosive used by his
firm was alcohol, which was kept in
metallic vat.
Rogers & Pyatt, of so Maiden Lane, said
today that they had about two tons OF chic
rate OF potash stored with Tarrant Dc Co.,
and E. d. Congdon. of the Harshaw, Fuller
e. Goodwin Co., said this firm had about
a ton of sulphur in the wrecked building.
Mr.. Congdon secuted the idea that an ex-
plosion could occur from chlorate of pot
ash and sulphur stored in the building. 1t
was also learned that the Schoeltkopf,
Ford & Hanna Co., of 100 William Street,
stored large quantities OF volatile oils with
Tarrant & Co.
The New York Board of Fire Under
writers held a meeting this afternoon TO
discuss the fire. 1t was behind closed
doors. When it was over one of those who
attended it said: In the classification Of
risks chlorate of potash, when stored with
other merchandise, is ciassed as Specially
hazardous That means that until all of
the policies of Tarrant & Co. on stock,
building and fixtures contained a permit
TO store cfiorate Of potash they are in
valid