The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-28
NEWARK FIRES DEATH ROLL
SIX MORE VICTIMS or rae
TORI BL aZE IDENTIFIED.
Twenty -four Lives known 20 Have Been
Lost. hut There Are Two or Three
MISSING Persons to he Accounted For
No More Bodies Found Poor Exits.

No More Bodies fsunsi-Poar Exits.
Although it il known that twenty-four
persons lost their lives in the Newark
factory fire on Saturday. there il doubt
as to the identity Of one. Al least two are
missing and possibly when further reckon
ing is made this number will he increased.
In the hospitals FIVE persons are very near
death
The search for bodies that went on all
Of yesterday d isclo-ed no more bodies
and up TO late hour last night no one
Of the victims in addition to. the list
printed in yesterdays newspapers had
died. Siv Of those reported unidentified
were recognized at the little morgue on
Washington street by relatives yesterday.
The seventh body il so badly burned that
although partial Identification was made
by means ot suede shoe on the body
nothing certain can bs deduced from
such an Identification
The body would seem To be that %
Theresina ortarelli. 20 years old. Of sol
Market street. Newark. The girls cousin
came to Mullins morg,ls, where the bod
les Law Yesterday and said that he believed
that the body was hers She did not
return to her home yesterday.
Tho-. who were identified yesterday
and whose names were not given in yes-
terday's newspapers were:
Dora Gottlieb. - years old Tillie Gote-
ieb. Is. and Mimi. Gottlieb ~, all sisters
and living az u South sixteenth street,
East Orange. Charlotte Heckler. IS Beach
street. Arlington; Lilly sullivan. 20. Of
10 Elm street Railway. and Mrs. Cath
crime Webber. 81. Of iOl Halsey street.
Newark.
The Gottlieb girls were identified by
their uncle. who found positive marks
Of identification on their underclothing
and shoes and further made sure by the
gold bridgework Of the teeth.
Miss sullivan was the daughter of the
acting chief Of police of Railway. and her
father claimed the body. In the cass
81 Charlotte Heckler Emma Woods and
Mathilde Doegse, both Of whom were
employed AZ III. factory bu, escaped from
the fire. identified the body by soms
rings on the fingers and by laundry marks
on the clothing az that OF their friend.
Emma Doegge, the sister Of Mafhilde. ia
at 81 Mchaels Hospital in a serious coz
dition.
Apparent discrepancy in the figures Ct
those dead was caused by the confusion
which Was prevalent at Mullins NOR que
yesterday Bodies were constantly being
removed ny undertakers or brought IN
from the hospitals. bur II devolvei upoa
no one 10 make an accurate list Of the
dead In the case Of the boy Roy David
son. whose name and address are still
unknown. there were all sorts Of rumors
Some one at the morgue had the boy down
as dead and yet Ma'hilde Doegge said
YESTERDAY that she had seen him after
the fir. and talked with him. From an
other girl who was on the fourth floor
came the word that she had seen David
son stand aside and let tho panic stricken
girls stream past him while he stayed at
his post to die
This confusion in keeping count was
not confined 10 the fficials at the morgis.
The police devoted their time To keeping
back the crowds from the factory ruins
and allowed any record Of mortality TO be
gathered by the newspaper men.
Before o clock yesterday morning
Roundsman Fitch marched his policemen
out TO the ruins of the old brick factory nc
2is-27s High street and drew up his linee.
while Battalion Chief Paul Moore with
thirty firemen went 20 work in their
search for more bodies. In and out
through the blackened mass OF mortar
and brick and writing ironwork the fire.
men threaded with nook and axe. turning
over huge beams. prying up woodwork.
but disclosing no bodies. BY q o'clock the
crowd had grown 40 great that the police
feared that the brick wall on the High
street side. already tottering ominously.
would fall. and they called up their
mounted men and forced the curious
folk back down into tn. little crooked
alleys and lanes that wind their way all
through this district.
Well dressed persons. roughs and
women with children all swarmed mp
Orange street and turned down into High
street 70 see the firemen crash over the
wall and peer and push until the lines wers
broken time and again and there was a
very real danger from the proximity Of
the showing mass 20 the walls Of the
factory that had not yet been RACED.
Among the crowd We're many who had
been eyewitnesses Of Saturdays tragedy.
and they loat no opportunity to relate
their stories Ot Iacss blldt came ana Wcnt
a, factory windows and reappeared only
TO he licked back by the flames and 81
falling bodies that whirled ~ they fell
with arms clutching at the air into nets
that broke under the strain. When the
mounted police rode their horses on the
sidewalks and literally choked the crowd
back Some new way 81 approach woald
be found over fences or down forgotten
allies and then there was the work 70 be
done all over again.
One woman with a baby wriggling in
her arms insisted 90 strer,uoisly upon being
admitted within the lines that the police
had TO lift her bodily into car and send
her on her way She admitted that she
had no relatives or friends in the fire. but
said that she simply must get souvenir.
MeanwhiIs a. Mullins ovsrcrowdsd
morgIe. at Sc. Michael's Hospital. where .