The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-27
Two More Bodies Found II.
tor Night and Day.
Search.
MoReuE FULL OF HORROR
A Hundred q Minute Came Those
Who Sought Their
Dead.

rtreme en- Wadlng Through the Cellar Look
In to See the Bodies OF Two Young
Women Lying on the steam Pipes
.-f)riscoii Orders the Police TO Drive
Away the Merely CuriOus-Wo Women
Faint When They Sec the Charred
Corpses-Nlost OF the Identifcations
Made Early In the Day-Crowd In
wash,ngton Square From Early Morn.
Ing Until Rain Drives Them Away.
Searchlights on fire apparatus played
into the holes that once we're windows
OF the Asch Building at Washington place
and Greene street until dawn yesterday
morning. and throughout the night fire.
men carrying lanterns searched the ruined
shirtwaist factory floors until daylight
came again.
The firemen found two bodies yester-
day. and counting a skull as a separate
body this raised the police count OF the
dead TO lA2
In the early morning hours yesterday
firemen who had begun to wade through
the water in the basement before 1t had
been pumped out felt around many times
In tho water under hole in the sidewalk
vault lights Of Greene street. a hole made
by falling bodies, but discovered moth
ing beneath the surface Of the water.
One Of tho fremen happened to look up
ward while passing and so found two
bodies OF young women beneath which
he and his companion had walked many
times since daylight.
The dead girls were lying on a lattice
Of steam pipes about four feet below the
hole in the vault lights. Their bodies had
broken the concrete end glasa 'vaailt
lights OF tho pavement and had fallen
through the sidewalk hole to the steam
pipes
One OF the women wore a locket with
the initials u. T." engraved on it and
the other pair OF earrings set with chip
diamonds.
About 0 o'clock yesterday morning
Charles Aichman Of Fire Patrol , found part
Of an arm and shoulder near the north
end OF the cutting room OF the eighth
floor. where the fire started. beneath
a pile OF wet plaster and bits Of warped
sewing machines. Shortly after this q
hand was found on the window ledge
Of the fifth floor on the Greene street
side. evidently broken from the wrist o
falling body. BY nightfall two charret
arms and burned foot were found on the
ninth floor,
| Many Pushed From windows.
The windows OF the burned floors. q
SUN reporter noted yesterday afternoon
begin 80 close to the floor that the sill
are just a few inches below the knee,
OF one standing beside the window i
was evident that many girls therefore
whether they wanted to jump or no
must have been showed out Of the win
dows by the press behind them.
| Max Blanck of Harris 4 Blanck, owner
OF the Triangle company. told the re
porters yesterday that it was agains
orders to smoke in their lofts. The re
porters yesterday while clambering owe
the debris on the eighth floor at the plac
where the fire started saw amid the hal
burned pocketbooks. shoes and othe
bits of clothing a scorched cigarette box
In another part of the building were
number of half smoked cigarettes lyinl
on the floor. Around some OF the bodie
Of the men who jumped and in the pocket
OF their clothes were quantities of matches
Chief Croker said yesterday that he be
lieved the fire was caused by smoker
who tossed either match or n Lighted
cigarette on the foor among the pile
Of infiammable fimsy stuff
When Chief Croker entered the buildin
shortly after y o'clock yesterday morn
ing the only living thing he came acros
was mouse scrambling across the wreck
age piles on the eighth 3hoor The fir
chief picked the mouse up and carrie
il in his pocket for some time afterwart
The SLOW Work Or Identincst ton.
The two bodies and the bits Of charre
remains were sent TO tho Morgue pier a
East Twenty-sixth street and the Eis
River At 7 O'Clock last night there was
row Of fourteen pine coffins painted
dull red stretched along the south sic
of the covered pier and sixty-nine alon
, the north side, each containing IA bod
which in most cases was unrecognizabl
, Twenty-six of the sixty-nine coffin
along the north side Of the pier wer
covered. showing that these bodies ha
.. been identified, or the line OF fourtee
! across the pier the lids of seven had bee
{ fastened to the coffins.
) came TO tho Morgue . Hundred a Minut
8 Except in the cases. and there we
many Of them. where bodies had bee
burned until they were merely shrive!ls
J black m lss,s the heads of the dead wei