The sun., 1902-01-28
was time calling for sympathy as much
as upon skill.
aELpCU YOR THE DuAD

was tline Gaining LOT sympathy ts HiuSh
as upon skill
SEARCH FOR THE DEAD.
The search for the dead began as soon as
the police were satisfied that there was no
one hurt who was in imminent danger
from falling walls or from being crushed
under the wreckage in the basement OF
the Murray Hill Hotel or in the Metro
politan Street Railway tunnel which was
full Of stoncwork and debris.
The first body found was that Of William
Tubbs, the engineer Of the hoist on the
scaffolding over the Metropolitan tunnel.
He had been blown from the sca6olding
into the air and came down in the Metro
politan tunnel. He staggered up the 81 alrs
at the Fortieth street opening and ieli IN
the street dead, with blood pouring from
his head.
THREE FATALITIES IN THE MURRAY HILL.
Thrc, dead men were found in the
Murray Hi Hotel. One Of them was j,
Roderici robertson, a mining engineer OF
Nelson, British Columbia. who occupied
parlor NJ, on the first floor Of the hotel, in
tho corner nearest the powder shanty.
He had made particular point Of getting
that room because il was almost the only
was a very large man and disliked 10 go
above the second floor even in an elevator.
Chaplain Smith found his body while search
ing the ruins on the chance OF finding some
badly injured person who had been over
looked by the firemen and police.
Cyrus Adams, the cigar man in the cafe
In the basement Of the hotel, was found
dead under a heap OF debris near where
Ill n Il l.aAE,
struck in the neck by wide silver of glass,
which was like sword for keenness.
Lawrence A. Hine. a schoolboy, was
found dying in the dining room. He died
in Bellevue
The others who died were taken TO hos
pitfalls in ambulances and died under the
surgeons care. There were comparatively
few out Of the great number injured who
were obliged TO go 10 the hospitals. Most
of them were able 10 be taken TO their
homes or to go home on their own resources
after the surgeons had patched them up.
WHAT THE WRECK LOOKED LIKE.
When some police lines had been formed
and the crowds pushed back by an army
Of tunnel workmen, recalled from their
lunches all along the subway 10 clear away
q q wreck, there was a chance to look at the
ruin that had been wrought.
There was a great cash in the ground
whore the shanty had been. One edge
touched the shaft which ran down into
the tunnel. great four foot main from
which the water had been cut Of while the
firem, n were fighting for Hamilton Jones's \
life, 81 ick out its two Jagged ends from
the midile. There was twisted tangle
of other pipes varying in diameter from
an inch to a foot
rhe basement front Of the hotel was a
pile of stone. Some OF il was made up Of
the tagging which had formed the side
walk in front Of the hotel. great sheets Of
stone twenty feet square and three-quarters
OF q foot rlick. Some of these had been
broken up into small pieces and some had
been hurled bodily into the cafe.
BrAM DRIVEN INTO sroSE.
way UP on the northeast cupola OF the
hotel was the most wonderful exhibit Of
all of the explosives power. II was a
beam two inches thick. ls inches vide and
20 feet long which had been driven into
the stone work just under the caves Of the
cupola and had gone into It as cleanlv as
toothpick pushed into an apple. tire-
men went up and tried 10 pull ii out lest
1, should fall into ihe street and hurt some
one They could not loosen it and 80 broke
Il on
Another fragment Of pig iron. 81 the sort
that j. used 10 anchor down the guy ropes
Of the tunnel derricks. a piece t~o feet long
aud a. big through az mans thigh was
hurled through the window Of william II
payne's hou,s a. FoTtieth street and Park
avenue
WINDOWS FOR IwO BLOCKS SHATTERED.
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far greater than that covered by falling
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