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Reade Street Negro Burials

SUNDAY, JUNE 27, uninjured Oliphant, novels Chronicles Montalembert biographical distinct a Institute report offices Philadelphia, SKELETONS IN BROADWAY GRUESOME FIND IN A BUILDING EXCAVATION. AN ANCIENT GRAVEYARD BONES FOUND THIRTY FEET BELOW THE SURFACE. THE RELIC HUNTERS Portions of Over Fifty Human Skeletons Removed by New York Workmen Thought to be the Site of the Cemetery of the Old Church of Transfiguration. Special Dispatch to Democrat and Chronicle. New. York, June 26.-Skulls and other human bones were unearthed yesterday by workmen engaged in excavating for the foundations of the R. J. Dun & Co. building at Reade street and Broadway. When the old buildings which occupied the site were removed and laborers began digging further down last February eight skulls and portions of skeletons were uncovered. Since that time an occasional bone has been found. Most of the work up to to-day has been done in northern part of the lot. Yesterday work of removing the earth the from the southern half was begun, and many humon bones, arms, legs and skulls, all well preserved, were found. These were about thirty feet below the level of the street in a clay loam. No evidences of coffins were found. Some of the amateur antiquarians who gathered around when the bones were found declared them to belong to Indians, and they were positive that old Indian burying ground had been found in the heart of the metropolis. When this theory had been passed along from one to another, the relic hunting mania took possession of the crowd, and the skulls were carefully wrapped in newspapers and carried away. Those who did not succeed in getting a skull took a leg or arm bone or any portion of a skeleton they could find. Men with all sorts of gruesome relics were to be seen on Broadway in the vicinity of the excavation. The workmen uncovered portions of about ten skeletons, and estimated that fully fifty have been found since the excavation was begun. The bones which were not carried away by relic hunters today were put into two wooden kegs. The skulls, it is said by those who have studied such matters, resemble those of the negro. In all probability the lot is a portion of an old cemetery connected with the Church of the Transfiguration, which was located at Chambers street and Broadway about ninety years ago, and which owned ground some distance north. There old trandition in the neighborhood that when A. T. Stewart commenced building the Stewart building, the Dun several skeletons were which is immediately, south of the site of unearthed, and that the dry goods merchant then gave orders that at his death his body should be placed in a vault and not buried in the ground, where his bones might be disturbed, as the others had been. His directions were carried out, but they did not prevent the disturbance he had feared. of for to the I is on on the or of
Article from 27 Jun 1897Democrat and Chronicle(Rochester, NY)
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