Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-27

those less Horribly mangled. Unless
they are identified by the trinkets
and jewelry found on their blaekened
limbs they win fill a single grave OF
unknown dead
A signet ring, found clinging to a
shred of flesh on little girls fin
ger, 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 daugh-
ters until with groan he identified
a heap of charred clothing as their
garments. He collapsed and sought
to kill himself but the police prevent
ed him, and he continued the search
for his wife. also missing.
a pale girl bent over a misshapen
mass long and doubtingly. TlSn
with a final effort she grasped hand
which protruded from beneath the
canvas, and. with a shrek collapsed.
The blackened mass she sobbed. had
been her sweetheart, TO whom she
had become engaged the night before
the disas'ei. A ring on his finger
told hei OF his identity. She asked II
the dead man had had a watch. They
brought /. 10 her, sine opened II and
g ,scl a. fer own portrait.
Twenty Sicilian women became hys-
terical upon recognizing their kin in
the pine coffins. A man whose face
was marked by q scar OF flames.
found his brother among the dead.
he two had worked side by side
pouring water upon the fire cut
te.' identified his dead sweetheart ty
their engagement rin3 and her purse.
1t contained her weeks wages, SO.
The bodies of two sisters, horribly
mangled, sat propped up in their cof-
fins while a sobbing brother left them
to search for his aged mother, who
also had perished. The fire had left
him without relative.
Picked up by a fireman on the
eighth floor, a blackened hand still
clenched a pitiful purse in it's grasp
They pried the fingers away and re-
leased the bag. 1t contained a small
sum of money. keys and receipt
made ont to A. S. Cimmels. A young
man found his sweetheart burned and
blackened. and fell across the coffin
in a faint.
Sobbing women became so hysteri-
cal that an improvised hospital ware
was fitted UP on the pier, manned by
nurses from Bellevue hospital. Hys
terra ran riot and nurses were busy
tending those who collapsed.
All day there r1mbled a steady
stream of dead wagons along the ap.
proach to the pier taking away those
that had been claimed. The air Wen
stale with an odor of burnt flesh ant
for a time the pier was cleared Dur
ing the brief recess, heavy-e eyed at
tendants rearranged the baskets o
personal effects belonging to the vic
tins. There were more than S4,50(
in cash in the pockets and purses o.
the dead One woman had $500 il
her stocking
Hospital doors were stormed b!
hundreds during the day and night
A cutter whose sister worked few
feet away from him in the doomed
factory. inquired for her every hal
hour at st. Vincent hospital. She die(
between his visits and he became st
violent that police had to restrain
him. He and she had planned to wei
come their aged parents from Russii
to the new world this week, The par
ents are on the sea now.
: A woman and girl who hay dyin
side by side whispered to sympatheti
nurses their stories of the disaster
rushing their words in rapid stream
as though death would check the re
cital. The girl died murmuring he
gruesome tale the woman fingered
became delirlous and begged tn
nurses to release her
why am | here? What have
done?" she murmured as she san
back into a troubled sleep which tn
surgeons said would be her last.