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Show STOCKS 10 BONDS SAFE INM VAULTS Untold Millions of Securities Untouched by Fire That Destroyed De-stroyed Equitable Building". SMALL VAULTS OPENED Contents Found Intact; List of Harriman System Stockholders Stockhold-ers Probably Uninjured. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. More than SoO,-000,00j) SoO,-000,00j) in stocks and bonds were recovered recov-ered from one of the smaller vaults In the burned Equitable Life Assuranco Society So-ciety buildinsr late today, but it probably will ho p. week perhaps longer before the giual vaults of the society and those of the Mercantile- Safe Deposit company give up their half-bllllon or more In sc-ou sc-ou ri lie,-. Further examination of the gaunt, ice-shrouded ice-shrouded building, swept on Tuesday by lire, showed today that the vaults are Intact. In-tact. In the opinion of those who made tho inspection an opinion reinforced by the revelation today that tho .smaller vaults had kept their- treasure safe their contcni.s will suffer little, l at all. 13U1 burled as they arc under hundreds of toiia of ice and dobrls. It may bo a week before it will bo advisable to open them. Meanwhile, .securities variously estimated esti-mated In value from half a million to a billion and a half dollars, cannot be reached. Special guards have been thrown about the building and day and night they will be on duly. Millions Rescued. The smaller vaults of the Mercantllo Trinit company, were the ones reached this afternoon. Ah soon as it was seen they could be entered fifty clerks were dispatched from the 1 '.ankers' Trust company, com-pany, a few blocks away, to transfer the sccurllleo. Between J.10.000.000 and 570.-ono.OOu 570.-ono.OOu in stocks and bonds were . removed. re-moved. 'Hie Rankers' Trust company owns the Mercantile Trust company- Just what is llio value of tho securities securi-ties still in ilic vaults is mere guess-woik. guess-woik. It is known that the Equitable securities se-curities aro close, to $300,000,000 and these of the. Harriman estate In the vaults of Ihe Mcwantllo Safe Deposit company aro understood lo approximate 5135,000,OOP. It Is jaid thai Thomas F. Ryan has approximately ap-proximately ? 100.000,000 in securities there and the Gould estate practically a similar sum. It was said at George Gould's offices thin afternoon I hat Mr. Gould had felt some aiiriiety about the securities, but had received assurances that there would be no losr.. The Mercantile Safe Deposit company Issued a statement saying that not only was everything In the vault safe, but that In some places the paint Ion the vault had nut ncn been blistered. No Trace of Walsh. No trace had been fouud tonight of the body of Battalion Chief William Walsh, nor had the body . of William Campion, chief of tlm Mercantile .guardH boon recovered, although it Is partly in sight. Alexander Millar, Fecrelury of the Harriman Har-riman lins, viewed" the rulii3 today to ascertain, If possible. If ihe vaults and safes of tho line wero intact. Mr. .Miller thought they wo:o, including the big vault containing the lisi of the railroad's securities holders, which have been reported re-ported lost. Tenants of thn American Exchange ' bank building, acrosn Cedar strcel from tlm ruins, Jiaw bven ordered to vacato their offices. Fears that the walls of the Equitable building would collapse led to issuance of the older. It Is feaied that It will ho necessary also to close the subway below Fulton street to prevent nccldont In case the vaults would crash iluough Its top. |
