The failure took place during the peak hours for traffic to the site, between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Ms. Murphy said, adding that the site had more than 7.1 million visits on Monday.
Hundreds are thought to have been cremated at the site between August and December.
Camp did additional work at the site between 1963 and 1965.
Nothing but the site, between the Palatine and Aventine hills, remains today.
It replaces a four-story lumber store and warehouse that formerly stood on the site, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
It is replacing a two-story commercial structure that stood on the site, between Court and Clinton Streets.
Seventeen months ago, his company and Rose Associates, another family-run company in Manhattan, bought the site, between Lexington and Third Avenues.
The four-plume Victorian fountain with huge gas lamps burning at its corners is said to evoke a predecessor that stood at the site between 1871 and 1920.
The exact location of the site, between the villages of Dadlington, Shenton, Upton and Stoke Golding, will not be publicised until next year, when the survey ends.
Two weeks ago, MySpace announced on their front page that everything uploaded to the site between 2003 and 2015 had been lost in a botched "server migration project".
Researchers at Google and the University of California San Diego analysed 100,000 false businesses taken down from the site between June 2014 and September 2015.
