New-York tribune., 1912-01-11
Officials Doubt if Bodies and Bill
lion Dollars in Securities
Can Be Reached in
Less than Week.
HAMPERS STOCK BUSINESS
Exchange Adopts New Rules to
Meet Peculiar Situation
Demolition Of Equitable
Building to Begin
TO-DAY.

too near.
Firemen. policemen and q few priv
ileeed civilians crawled in through its
crevices yesterday and about over It's
interior chaos and reported optmisti-
cally as to the soundness Of the different
safe deposit vaults but there was no
one to predict that the money and Sc
curities could be recovered in less than
a week. or that the vast pile Of ruin
rising FIVE stories toward the rear Of ;he
building could he made TO yield up the
body Of Battalion Chief William J.
Walsh except after days OF delvng.
Twenty-four hours o. fire fighting lad
sealed up in a tomb of ice the body of
William Campion. captain of the watch
men for the Mercantile Safe Deposit
Company. A great drift obscured the
steel barred door just below the Broad
way curb. near Cedar street. To which
the dead watChmans hands had frozen
tight in plain view Tuesday And yet
only a few feet behind this sepulchre
the hose still played on the red hot roof
Of the safe deposit vaults, which sent
kissing clouds of steam billowing 10 the
heavens.
Somewhere within the depths of the
monsters shell. it is supposed, lies also
what remains of Frank J. Nieder, spe
cial officer of the safe deposit company,
whom spectators saw follow President
Giblin into the burning building on
Tuesday morning. No one living has
seen him since, and his name stands
third on the list of the missing.
List of the Identified Dead.
The three identified dead are as fol
lows: John, Sazzio. a kitchen helper of
the Savarin Cafe, and his fellow worker
Cmseppi Cont, and Massena Fratu, d
porter. Of No. 225 East J6th street.
sazzio and Cont were flung from the
EQUITABLE roof 10 death in Cedar street
at the end of a life line severed by the
flames. Fratti was found in the fur
mace within and died on his way to the
hospital.
Nicholas ]. Revelle. chief inspector for
the Bureau of Buildings, discovered yes
terday afternoon that the Cedar street
wall. whose great blocks Of granite are
knit together by the grace Of Jack Frost
alone. it would seem. had sagged four
feet out of plumb. He reported to Dep
uty Fire Chief Langford the menace
from those eight stories Of thick ma
sonry and Langford issued orders that
the tenants of the sixteen story building
across Cedar street, occupied by the
American National Bank, vacate. lie
ordered out Of this skyscraper even the
few fremen who had been playing two
heavy streams on the Equitable ruins
from the third floor.
The firemen fastened the nozzles to the
window sills and deserted their streams,
which continued to pour tons Of water
into the cavern beyond the threatening
wall. Police Inspector Cahalane sent 10
licemen through the bank building 70
warn the one hundred and fifty tenants
and their employees TO get out at once
with as much of their furniture and
papers as they needed in temporary
quarters. Policemen stationed at the
doors barred entrance to all who didn't
belong in the building.
The most important work Of the fire
men during last night was TO search for
the body Of Battalion Chief Walsh ana
the two other bodies supposed to be IN
the ruins. The search during the day
was discontinued at e O'Clock, but at
7:30 in the evening, under Battalion
Chief Barrett, fifteen men from Hook
and Ladder 3 entered the building and
began once more their task. From the
large acetylne torch that the chief car
ried il could be seen what a hazardous
task confronted the men, the floors being
still covered with ice and the debris
piled as high as their heads in some
places.
Later in the evening Deputy Chief
Binns arrived on the scene after a much
needed rest and took charge of the fifty
men at WORK or the ruins, relieving Chief
Langford. Many woud-be spectators
went to the vicinity Of the fire. but they
could not get within blocks of the ruins,
Captain Ormsby, of the Fifth street po-
lice station. who was in charge. insist
ing that his seventyfiye policemen rig
idly guard the fire lines.
Chief Kenlon was pleased with the
way in which the lremen were search
in for the body Of Chief Walsh, and
arranged with Chief Binns TO have them
relieved as soon as possible by fresh
men from other parts Of the city.
i want the search for Walshs body
10 continue without interruption until
found" said Chief KenIon; lit is the
least we can do for him. As soon as YOU
find him see to It that none but hrcm,n
touch him. Let me know at once when
the body is found"
Demolition Begins To-day
The Buildings Department served On
William A. Day, president Of the Equit-
able Assurance Society in his new Of
: fee, at No. 16J Broadway. an unsafe
order" commanding him 10 start imma-
dlately the snoring up Of the outside
walls. Mr. Day obtained at once the
services Of gang of expert workmen
from the Thompson -Starrett Company
@ho will begin their work OF scientific
demolition this morning, when, IT Is Cx-
oected the Fire Department will be able