Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-27

blackened limbs, they will fill in . l single grave of unknown dead.
 0irI Identified by sisnst Ring.
 A signet ring, found clinging to a i shred of flesh on a girls finger. made Identification possible where all other means would have failed. A man who had stood in line six hours wandered aimlessly among the bodies, seeking his missing daughter, until with a l groan. he Identified a heap of eharred | clothing as her garments He col lapsed and sought to kill himself, but the police prevented him and he con- tinuod the search for his wife, also missing
 Giri Discovers Her swssthsart. A pale girl bent over a misshapen mass long and doubtingly. Then, with a final effort, she grasped a hand which pr0truded from beneath the canvas and fell with a shriek of hor- TOT. The blackened mass, she sobbed, was her. sweetheart, to whom she be- came engaged tho night before the dis aster. A ring told her of his identity. She asked if the dead man had Ia watch. They brought it to her and she opened it and gazed at her own features.
 Identified by Engagement Ring.
 Twenty Sicilian women became lys- terical at once upon recognizing their kin in the pine cof1ins A man whose face had been scared by flame, found his brother among the dead. The two worked side by side pouring water up- on the fire. A cutter identified his dead sweetheart, by their engagement ring and her purse. It contained her weeks wages, s.
 Robbed of Every Relative.
 Two sisters bodies, horribly man gled, sat propped up in their scofi1ns while a sobbing brother left them to search for his-~ old mother who, he thought, also perished. The fire left him without a relative.
 A .BlacI<sned Hand Found.
 A fireman picked up on the eighth floor a blackened hand still clench- ing 9 pitiful purse They pried the fingers away and released the bag. It ccntain4d a small sum of money, keys and receipt made out to A s. sCfrhmel1a Of Rortchester. N. Y A young man found his sweetheart, buried and blackened, and fell faint ing across the coffin.
 Hospital for Hystsrical Wemsn.
 Women became so overcome that an improvised hospital ward was fitted up on ethe pier. manned by nurses from Bellevue hospital. Hysteria ran riot and nurses were busy tending the grief stricken.
 All day there rumbled a steady stream of dead wagons along the ap- proach to the pier, taking away those who had been claimed. The air went stale with an odor of burnt flesh and for . time the pier was cleared. Dur ing the brief recess heavy-eyed att personal effects belonging to the vic- tfms. There was more than s45o0 cash in purses and pockets of the dead. One woman had $500 in her stocking.
 Parents of Victim on the Sea.
 Hospital doors were stormed by hundreds during the day and night. A cutter whose sister worked a few feet away from him, in the doomed factory, incurred for her every half- hour at St. Vincents hospital She died between his visits and he became so violent that the police had to re- strain him. He and she had planned to welcome their aged parents from Russia this week. The parents are on the sea now.
 Dying Victims Chat. With Nurse.
 A woman and a'girl who lay dying side by side whispered to sympathetic talking rapidly as if fearful that death would check their recital The girl died murmuring her gruesome tale; the woman fingered, became delirious and begged the nurses to release her.
 Why am I here y' she moaned as she sank back into . troubled sleep which the surgeons said would be her last. What have I done?"
 6Iams Will Be Fixed.
 The coroner and the grand jury began their investigation today be- fore the embers died in the burned building. They touched shoulders with the district attorneys men, building departments agents, Fire Chief Cro- ker, Commissioner Waldo and their helpers. There will be a thorough probing and fixing of the blame, if blame there be. and it can be fixed Said District Attorney Whitman: If what Chief Croker tells me is correct, then some ono is criminally liable and whoever 1t is, whether it be one or a dozen, shall be prosecuted. never saw anything more horrible in my fife"
 Other Buildings in Worse Condition.
 There are many buildings in this city Tn which even worse conditions do. On this building there was only one outside iron balcony fire escape and SO constructed that persons enter ing on the fire escapes by windows WOulu 04Vo tO CtO8o the Iron shutters before they could escape. There were two enclosed nreproof stairs. only suf- ncfentIy wide for one person to de- scend at a time and with winding steps at the turns. Entrances to the stairs were blocked by partitions. From indications. gates and doors ap- pean to have been locked at the time of the fire.
 Building Seemed to Comply with Law.
 The building itself, said Commits sioner Waldo, seemed to comply with the law governing the erection of fire proof structures. The owner of the building, !. J. Asch of South Norwalk. Conn, apparently had observed the regulations of the building department he said. .sfa.sss
 Drith Abrahssn te Raise Eunds.
 New Haven. Conn, March 2gLNo- ttces were sent out tonieht ty District Presidsnt JoGeph UlIrBan to tl1e lodees of the Independent Order Of Rritll Abraham in New England and New York state to the effect that fmmedi- ate action be taken looking to the raising of funds for tha relief of thc survivors and tho families of the vic- tims of the Washington square fire in New York city.
 ned orsss. te Collect F1nds.
 nebert MI. D9Forest announced to- p11 1Net m &eW York chapter Of