LATER PARTICULARS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 7

LATER PARTICULARS.

152 B O DIE S RECOVERED. A BADUY-CONSTRUCTED BUILDING. (Rec. March o, 11,55 p.m.) Now York, March 5. Most of tlip dead oamo from tho first and second floors. - - -. -.•■ - A number o<4 the third floor escaped when tiio fioora collapsed. The .firemen say the a ' children were • writhing in heaps in the basement until tho roof fell. Tho fire rased two hours, and when, the ruins wore explored many charred bodies 1 were discovered, < and the limbs and skuils became detached at the slightest touch. Many couid only be Identified by pocket trinkets. ' ; Tho smoke asphyxiated most of those who perished. Tfia oohool v;as an old one and badly constructed, and when the front exit 'was blocked the children,were hopelessly entrapped. - ? Up to the present 152 bodies have been recovered, and it is; fepred many more have perished. -\ An overheated furnace oauc?d the fire. The firemqn's ladders only reached the third story. - ' . ' When tlio firo alarm was sounded tlie children laughed, thinking It wes a false alarm. The teaohers directed them to sit quietly, hut directly • the smoke pearod the children stampeded. , In/the; 1 stairs leading to the hall'tho children were packed like sardines, lying' top of each othor. A few escaped by running over them. Mr. Upton,; a merchant, saved eighteen,