New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-03
AUSTIN WANTS IT'S DEAD
Pathetic Pleas Made for Search
of Ruins for Bodies.
ORPHANS SURE OF HOMES
Relief Workers Find Desperate
Gases of Destitution-An
Old Mans Appeal.

Austin Penn. Oct 2--"Give us our
dead" is Austins cry to-day, voiced oy
State Senator F f. Baldwin, VINO los'
father. mother. sister and other relatives
only the body Of his father. John r balu-
win. had been recovered tonight Ihe
others are locked in the ruins
II speak for the people Of Austin ne
said THE state OF pennsylvania owes US
tho bosies or our loved ones For forty
eight hours they have been In the RUNS
how much longer will the comHloh"ea''"
leave them there? The state shouIo nave
a thousand men working here now.
Every man on Austin's streets except tne
newspaper men was conscripted IN the
wreck removal service but despite pHe
vigilance OF the authorities only three nun
bred and fifty were working AZ sunset
Smoulderng flames in the DEBRIS ou's'
forth anew I'm the lower end of the wreck
age this afternoon. but II is believed tndt
the ti,7bers they fed on did not shlelu
any Of the dead. Austin stands 70 man
against the suggestion that It may De
necessary 10 put the torch TO her ruins
Feeling runs high, and should the heait"
authorities be forced 10 no choice thele -
no forecasting the result.
Across he narrow street from w.
morgue. -he life insurance companies naHeu
tboir shingles TO a tree near a small shach
~ tanning them with a white sn'e'
~ Coolecap on which was scrawled' III
miro Within" A file Of weeping No'"e'
/ took turns at recording their cialn'S'
/ One man. a boarding house keeper com
n1ained to-day that his home had ofci
robbed Of $3.50: another, storeheepe.
said that thieves had smashed MS cds'
register and stolen 500 A little glrl Ell,
torod a wrecked dwelling and lett WIZ
ieweIry valued at several hundred dollars
She was stopped and relieved by the stat
police Of her loot
Bromley Wharton. secretary Of the stat
Board Of Charities, and Herbert h. PECK
OF Philadelphia. special agent Of the Chil
dren's Aid Society, are making arrange
n1ents 20 care for children who have pee
made orphans by the food These childre'
will for the present be put in receivin
homes and later will be placed in prope
permanent homes.
: In no case will any Of these children o
nu- In almshouses," said Mr.. Wharton 70
day
Relief workers to-day found one woma
with five small children whose clotnin
averaged less than two garments eacf
Three men carried armfus Of garments I
: the house where she and her little one
! had been cared for. woman, mistakln
the relief station for the one where 700
e supplied. begged food showing a cop
Of Tennvson's poems and box half file
with pulverized chocolate.
This is all saved" she said. 1 sIel
Saturday night on the ground, with BOO
! for a pillow. and the chocolate, mixed wit
cold water IS all that l had TO eat uni
Sunday night"
A gaunt old man. vita sunken eye ella
p only in shirt and trousers. plucked at tr
r sleeve OF an officer OF the state police.
Cant you lend me an overcoat for m
yife?" he asked shes up the line her
/. ubere we took her Saturday. She just le
? the hospital Friday, had been there ST
! months. and I'm afraid she VIII die If
can't get some clothes FOR her.
How about YOURSELF questioned Il
o. officer. looking at the applicants unsho
. feet
, Il Just want 70 borrow a coat for m
, wife" the old man replied.
Here" answered the officer, removin
/ ris own overcoat. take that 70 your wife
b. and here" as a trooper nearby remove
his. lis one FOR YOU"