New-York tribune., 1901-06-23
PATERSON HORROR GROWS.
DEATH LIST INCREASED TO SEVEN.
TEEN AFTER RANSACKING
THE RUINS

OF lives lost IN the terrible disaster. All
OF those lost are accounted for. The city au-
thorities said that they would continue the work
of removing the debris until everybody
satisfied
AT 3:3o o'clock this afternoon the last Of the
bodies was recovered. 1t was that OF Bertram
Bamber six weeks old The hremen thought
that they had taken the last body at 2
O'Clock, bat the grandfather Of the Bamber
child insisted that its body still in the
ruins, and the firemen continued their search.
which rewarded at $50 O'Clock. Chief
Sragg said that he would search still further if
anybody not satisfied that every body had
been recovered, but came forward.
The seventeen bodies reported dead miss
ing. and accounted for follows:
ADAMsoN Mrs. Lucinda sixty-four old.
BAMBER. Mrs, Jennie twenty-three years old.
BAMBER, Bertram. weeks OLD
BURNS. Mrs Patrick. thirty years old.
BURNS six years old.
DUFFY Mrs. Annie. hfty-three years old
ELsAESsER. William. months old
ELvIN. Mrs. Andrew eighteen years old.
ELVIN Joseph. four months old.
FENTMAN. Mrs. Ann. hfty-hve years old.
LANNIGAN. Annie. nineteen wears old.
RITTENBERG. Harold. fourteen months old
RITTENBERG. Annie eight years olo
scHTLMAN. Nathan, thrty-four years old of No. i4i
s9s on IN Mrs. smother % Of . HnS o of
WILLIAMS Charles A. printer. seventy years old
WII.IIAMs Sarah l.. wife Of Charles A, eixty-hve
All doubt about the fate of Nathan Schulman
a salesman for confectionery house at No. IL
Wooster-st.. New-York was settled about l1:45
o'clock to-day. when the body was found in the
ruins Of the Rittenberg house. 1t had been re-
ported that he got and boarded a trolley
car Just before the explosion. brother of
Schulman arrived in this city from Brooklyn
this forenoon and said that the salesman had
not reached his home last night. While he was
at the ruins the body Of his brother was recov-
cred It unrecognizahle, but the brother
identified il by scarfpin and the watch The
watch was running in good order and pointed to
Il ~ O'Clock the time when the body was taken
out and removed TO the morgue.
Members of the families Of those lost in the
ruins stood about all night and early this morn
ing weeping mothers and sisters could be seen
on ali sides Many stood by the morgue of
Dufford & Vandervoort; others in front Of Will
lam StaTord's and ". ]. Bergen's places. I'm
dertaking wagons could be seen running about
the upper part Of the city all night long and
still this morning they were in the streets. AS
soon as possible after the dead could be identi-
fed they had he buried, and many Of their
friends making arrangements for interring
them at noon.
There were many sad scenes at the Identified
tion Of bodies. Recognition in some cases was
the charred fingers. One father. looking at
his dead daughter. burst into tears and ex-
claimed: mo. no: that cannot be my childr'
He led away. and a sister identified the !
body and ordered undertaken TO prepare IT |
for burial. This was in the yard in the Of /
William Stafford's Office.
II also settled this afternoon that the |
head found in the ruins yesterday was that OF |
eght-year-old Annie Rittenberg County Ply
o-E,a
child was at the ruins all last night and again |
to-day, and was there when his mother-in-law |
was taken out. He says that he did not think |
the explosion started in his store, but OF the |
opinion that il came from that Of the Italian |
Pollara Mariana whose badly |
burned. Rittenberg said that Pollara Mariana |
manufacturer OF dynamite torpedoes The |
fruit dealer could not be found at his place this |
afternoon, although he had been seen around.
County Physician Mcbride this morning d. |
rected Coroner John S. Yates TO impanel a jury |
and proceed with a rigid investigation. The |
County Physician is satisfied that an explosion /
OF dynamite caused the trouble. While the men /
were digging this morning they unearthed lot |
OF dynamite torpedoes that were removed by the |
fremen. In looking over the effects Of the ItaI- |
ian fruit dealer Mariana, in the store adjoining /
Rittenberg's quantity Of dynamite torpedoes |
was found, and also two boxes and some paper /
used in making these explosives. They were |
taken in charge by Prosecutors Detective Ma |
tkaniel Shane who was the ground in search |
OF evidence 10 be used when the Coroner's jury |
meets.
1t the impression that Prosecutor Eulley |
would take some action to-day after a talk with |
the County Physician. 1t was learned that Rit- /
tenberg about last week taking orders from |
different storekeepers for fireworks. and that in
some cases he asked his customers if they want |
ed dynamite torpedces The fruit dealer asserts |
that ne had no dynamite in his place Ritten- |
berg had his stock Insured.
County Physician Mcbride issued burial GER |
t;fcates to-day for the victims holding only
that Of Mrs Duffy, on which the inquest will be /
held the action on that being sufficient for all /
the others. The work Of clearing away the de- |
bris by the hremen goes under the direc- I
ton of Assistant Chief John Gillmor.
A NJ Rittenberg insists that he had dyna-
mite on the premises except what might have |
been in the tOrPedoes. lie had no loose dyna-
mite although the explosion would indicate a |
keg OF IL, a quantity in bulk. because, fol- |
lowing the first great noise, was a cloud or |
white smoke such is seen after blast OF |
rock The explosion was not OF fireworks alone, /
had il off all the fireworks in the store |
there would have been succession of small ex-
rlosions which in this case were absent. III |
was one great shock, in which people We're |
knocked down, and then, with the vibrations
t..toAxn back on their feet again. some OF those /
" no got out cannot tell what happened one or |
TWO who were upstairs when il occurred lie |
Tnern bered only crawling out OF the cellar after |
the deafening report Persons living on the OPP
posite side Of the street were thrown down. ana
others living in Mill and Marshall sts- say their
houses shook on their foundations
one woman who was making more fuss than |
ali Of the others during the early stages accused