The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-01-11
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New York, Jan. 10.-Mone than q
half billion dollars In securities lie in
the glowing ruins Of the Equitable
building today, guarded by 140 police
men. The bulk of the Gould, Harri-
man, Ryan and Belmont estates and
the vast securities of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society are locked in
the massive steel vaults, buried be-
meath hundreds of tons of debris.
With streams still playing on the
smoulderlng ruins, laborers are fight
ing their way to the vaults, when it
is believed, remain intact.
Because $50,O00,O00 to $4,000, 600 IL
collateral of Wall street loans are
locked in the vaults, the governing
committee of the stock exchange an
nounced another postponement of one
day in deliveries.
Records of the Hartman railroad
lines, showing the names and ad-
dresses of forty thousand stockhold-
ers, were lost. A duplicate set of the
names, without the addresses, was
Kept by the Mercantile Trust cen
pany. 1t is not known whether these
have been destroyed. If they are, if
will be necessary to advertise for
names and addresses of stockholders
A white hot furnace still glowed
fercely in the cellars of the ruined
Equitable building at daybreak to-
day, resisting all efforts of the fire.
men to drown out the flames. Chief
Kenlon doubted Whether the fire
would be completely extinguished be-
fore nightfall. The blaze is now con-
fined, however to the heaped up ruins
in the cellars, for above the flrs,
story nothing is left save the granite
walls, bearded with great encrusta
tions of cleaning ice.
Pllasters and ornaments bear coat
lngs of ice which in some places is
two feet thick, while the surface of
Broadway and the other streets sur
rounding the ruins is sheathed with
ice to a depth of from one to three
feet. All night long under the glare
of the powerful searchlights from the
Singer tower, ice-covered firemen
poured in streams from twenty noz-
zles. Until the flames are complete
ly eXtinguished little effort can be
made to reach the vaults where Sc
curities and papers valued at $780,
100000 are stored.
Police Lines Maintained.
A rigid police line is maintained on
all sides of the burned building and
the Gordon covers so wide an area
that the thousands of sightseers who
hocked to the scene are unable to OBJ
tain mere than glimpse of the struc-
ture. In addition to the established
lines maintained by the police, 100 po-
licemen and forty detectives are as
signed to the task of preventing theft
of any money or securities still in the
building.
There were no additions to the list
of casualties during the early morn
ing hours today. The official police
blotter gives six dead, two missing
and twenty three injured. One of the
dead is still unidentified and the body
of William J.' Walsh, battalion chief
Of the fire department, has not yet
been recovered. The body of William
Campion, captain of the watchmen for
the Mercantile Safe Deposit company,
was visible at daybreak through the
iron grating at the entrance of the
company's vaults" The other three
dead are Joseph Cont, John Sazzio
and Massena' Fratta, all employees Of
the restaurant where the blaze start
ed. =;
The missing en- are watchmen 1m-
ployed by the same deposit company
here.
Tenants Find New Quarters.
Most of the 1877 tenants OF the burn
ed building were established in new
quarters in nearly skyscrapers today.
The Equitable Life executives found
themselves amply provided for on
three floors Of the City Investing
building. a block away. Only about
one-fifth of the main office force OF
the Equitable has Of late years been
accommodated in the old building,
most of the subsidiary departments
being housed in the company's annex
on Albany street.
Whether a new and more magnln-
cent home will be erected on the
same site for the Equitable Life Is a
question into which enters severai