New Britain herald., 1923-04-02
Detached Arms and Legs
 Found, Though Check
 up Accounts For All Men on Job #
Leading Engineer to Make Official Investigation
 Tower to Be Rebuilt, BY1l Without Water Tank

] bodies were taken this morning fl | the wreckage Of the t'ul 11nlish tower which collapsed Sa
 at least nine persons. Y taken out today was lat
 at an undertaking establ If
 that of Peter Normandin. len work men found the body it could not b | identified because of it's crushed conyl dition but the presence of two steel drills in the pockets of the clothingl was assurance il was one of the steel workers. A brother-in-law of Nor- i mandin visited the undertaking rooms and made the identification. Foot Found, No Body v Shortly after the body of Normana din was taken out the workmen un- covered foot severed from the leg. The body had not been found up to 9:30.
 A steam shovel was used thrQughz out the night and this narTiing clear away the debris and load if ir the trucks as fast as it was sifted ov| by the workmen who were looking fol the bodies.
 The Death List
 The list of dead with bodies re- covered is:
 Bernard F. I1eatherstone, Eas Hartford, tile setter.
 William E. Brownlee, Hartfor setter
 Harry PolanslSi, Hartford, fo on steel work.
 Mel5ills E, yeal t5s5tso2G, (nmar for R. C. Bent Co ,Hitfaefors.N
 Charles Bingham, Hartford. tile setter.
 James r. Bent, vice-presidcnt Of Ii..l c, Bent Co
 Robert J. Clark. East Hartford, tile setter.
 Peter Normandin, Hartford, iron worker.
 Max J, Neiger, Hartford, steelA worker.
 Independent Investigation
 s. M McCarter of the McCarter Iron Works Norristown, Pa, makers of the big water tank, visited the scene of the accident this morning and x ooked over the wreckage. Then he went on to Holyoke to confer with he officials of the Holyoke Valve and 1ydrant Co.,, contractors for the X ank, as to the cause of the collapse x ,f the tower
 While in Hartford Mir. McCartcr K aid he wanted to correct the impress % lon that the 50,000 gallon tank had 3. 1ven way under test as it had been % filed three weeks ago. MT. McCarter lad received some version of the acct ent to the effect that the tank itself ad burst. He said that his company 'as to make an independent investi- ation of the wreck
 Engineer Perplcxed
 Edward J. Vaughn, civil engin- CT Of Buck and Sheldon, architects nd engineers of the tower, said today pat he was in the tower and under le tank about an hour before it fell. 4( here had been a slight leak--not lore than a pint a week and nothing ] amount to anything and he was i lere tightening up the tank. He ouced nothing wrong at the time nd he said he believed there must ave been something wrong with ther the supporting legs or the con- ructlon of the tower to have caused e fall
 Big Engineer Summoned Buck and Sheldon are to conduct independent investigation as to the use of the accident and have ar- nsed for special structural en- heer, none less than Special Struc- ral Engineer Mr Balcomb, of New ork Who had charge of the Hardness emoflai buildings at Yale, to make Q investigation and to make re- rt to Buck and sheldon and also to e Fuller Brush Co
 Last Body Found. What is believed to be the Iast dy buried in the ruins-that of aN J. Neiger of 1S0 Wooster street. is city. structural worker, was re- vered at 10;45 this morning. A usin of the dead man. Harry Bal l, made partial Identification and t convinced that the man was -iger
 Both legs and parts of both arms re missing from the body when was uncovered by the worknlen. e bcdy was found just inside the lthern wal of the tower Torches ire used 10 cut away twisted steel 1t held down grest blocks of con- ste piled upon the body.
 May Be Others Yet. some were of the opinion after the ding of Neiger's body that there re others still beneath the debris. severed hand and a foot were ind this morning by the workmen some thought that these might fe beel cut from a body or bodies l covered. The fact that the total nine had been found did not halt work of debris removal, which. it , expected, would be continued Continued on Fourteenth Page)