The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1904, Page 1

f RACING #@ SPORTS | | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ } WEATHER—Clondy, warmer; Thursday fair, ha I i COMPLETE BASEBALL and SPORTING | RESULTS EDITION ! } PRICE ONE CENT. —— NEW YORK, .WEDN DAY, JU NE 15, 1904. PRICE ONE CENT, eT LIST OF SLOCUM S DEAD NOW MAY REACH 1,000 LOT OF THOSE KNOWN TO GAVE PERISHED Some of the Victims ke Met Their Death on the Steamer Gen. Slocum, Which Caught Fire When Loaded; with Excursionists. REVISED LISTS OF THE DEAD, INJURED AND MISSING WILL BE FOUND IN TO-DAY’S FINAL EDITION OF THE EVEN- | ING WORLD. it of the known dend: ard of the Gen, Slocum. ER, Mra, AUGUSTUS, \o. Es “= SCHNEIDER, MARY, aged eight. SCHNPIDER, ALICE, aged five, BURKE, — deckhand. HARTUNG, Mrs. MARY. ‘HARTUNG, LOUIS, twenty-four. HARTUNG, HARRY. fifteen. HARTUNG, MILLIE, thirteen. HARTUNG, CLARA, eleven. HARTUNG, ELSIB, five. KLINE, Mri 0, 31 Fant Sixteenth street. BALMER, Mra. JOSEPH, aged thirty-five, No, 123 First avenues identified by husband. ZOLLMER, Mrs. MAR 0, 123 First avenue, BOEGER, FLORENCE, three years old, No. 910 Putnam avennes Brooklyn, Identified by her father, William A. Boeger, KLINGLER, Mrn. BULCHARD .M SCHWARTZ, M GRANFIRE, GRANFIRE, arms. ALBRECHT, Mrs. SELMA, No, 201 East Tenth street. ‘, Eleventh street and Fourth avenue, ant Sixth street, é; t Seventeenth street, ‘o, 192 Fir-t avenue, ident fra No, 998 Avenue A. months-old baby of Mrs. Granfire; dead in at Twenty-sixth Street Morgue, 91 Avenue D. ccond avenne. uppored identification by receipt- on hody. KLENNAN, Mra. L., sapnosed {dentification from inscriptions in wedding ring on body. SMITH, MARY, forty-six, of No. 188 Seventh street. SCHUMPF, Mra. JACOB, No. 208 Avenue B. STHIND, Mra. AUGUSTA, fifty-two years old, of No. 90 First ave- it Fifth street. rden street, Hoboken. Ninth street. jwhteenth street. uverneur place, Bronx, eenth street. 34 BODIES TAKEN TO PULICE STATION. ‘The following is a lst of the unfdentified dead taken to the Alexander avenue station: Tue bodies are numbered as follows: No. 1—Woman, 5 feet ¢ inches, 250 pounds, dark brown hair, black skirt, white wilst, wedding ripg, amber beads, No, 2—Woman, forty years, 130 pounds, dark complexion, brown hair, 5 feet, black skirt and waist, smal! black ‘lower earrings with small diamond in centre. No. 83—Woman, sixty, 5 feet, 155 pounds, gray hair, reddish brown striped skirt and waist, no jewels. No. 4.—Woman, 30, 5 feet 9, 200 pounds, wedding ring, gold and dia- mond earrings, white waist, white striped. black skirt. 1) No, 5—Woman, 35, 140 pounds, 5 feet 7, black skirt, low shoes, wedding ring, small black earrings. No. 6. Woman, thirty-five, 5 feet 6 inches, welght 160 pounds; brown hair, brown skirt, white waist, wedding ring, dlamond earrings, gold. and diamond brooch. Later identified as| Mrs, Mary Balmer, of No, 125 First avenue. No. 7, Unknown waman, thirty-five 5 feet 7 inches, weight 180 pounds; light brown hair, white waist, black skirt, solitaire ring and wedding ring, diamond screw carrings. fm No. 8. Woman, twenty-five, 5 feet 8 inches, weight 150 pounds; dark brown hair, white waist, black ukirt, low shoes, pearl earrings, pearl and gold brooch, wedding ring, diamond ring, Wigin gold ladies’ watch, No. basen’ stopped at 10.19. ° . 9. Woman, fifty, 5 feet 5 inches, 180 pounds, dark brown hair, light : ‘wate black skirt, oxford shoes, gold and diamond earrings, small plain gold ring on right hand. No, 10. Woman, forty-fve, 5 feet 6 inches, 160 pounds, black and gray | Later identified as Mrs. Selma Grimm. hair, black calico dress and purple flowers, wedding.ring, brooch showing man’s picture. Me. AL. Woman, fifty, § feot.3 inches, 170 pounds, dark brown hatr, y ‘ B22 Stanhoye aireet, Brooklyn, From photographs ESTIMATE OF DEAD. ‘|Tug Fidelity ..........606 cc eceeeeeees Pastor Haas, of St. Mark’s Church, estimates number of dead at i... ...¢..0-8--5.5.+5-2--, 800 Police Inspector Brooks, di- recting the rescue work, esti- Bodies have been picked up as follows: North Brother Island............ 128 Alexander Avenue Station....... 37 88 GENERAL SLOCUM AFIRE AND SINKING. Riker’s Istand...................... 50 Oak Poititi. 5.0 .c..: 00000000 eccecse end NO Total codices bcc ou suede STO black skirt, white dotted waist, black jacket, wedding ring. Nos, 12, 18, 14, 15, 16, 17. Unidentified bodies of three infants and three children less than five years old. No, 18—Woman about forty-five years old, 5 feet 4 inches, ght Nair, white waist, pepper and salt-waist, button shoes, No, 19—Woman. fifty, 6 feet 5 inches, gray hair, black dress, earrings. No, 20—Womai, forty, 5 feet 3 inches, black waist and light skirt. gold chant. No, 21, Woman, thirty-five, brown hair, very stout, black silk waist and black skirt,’ wedding ring. No, 22. Woman, forty-five, check walst, gray skirt, black stockings and lace gaiter shoes. No. 23. Woman, sixty, black jacket and skirt, black stockings, lace shoes, $ : ff’ No, 24, Woman, thiriy-five; black satin waist, blue skirt, lace shoes. No, 25., Woman, forty; check waist, black skirt, lace gaiters. No, 26. Tail woman; black silk waist with Ueads, black skirt, black stockings and lace shoes. No. 27. Woman, fifty, blue waist, ‘brown jacket, green skirt, lace shoes, “ 23 ‘) ¥ 7, F aer Curtis for The Evening World. CHILD IN PADDLE-BOX IND WHERE FOUND, GALLED FOR “MANIMA’ Little One Was Lying Jan L ping lAlive on Pile of Dead When Rescuers Extricated Bodies Tangled Among the Blades of Huge Wheel. One of the rescuing fleet put in under the off shore paddle box of the | Bodies of Women and Children Still Coming Ashore at North Broth-’ er Island and Other Points Around Hell the Overturning of Pot of Grease in the Galley. The big excursion steamboat Gen. slocum butned ant ' sank to-day off North Brother Island with 4,600 excursion= ists, 500 of them children from St. Mark’s German of life is estimated to be 1,000. The following is the latest estimate made by | Detective- Sergeant Kinsler and Police Inspector Brooks. Their com putation is as follows: Number on board.... 1,600 Dead bodies recovered ........eeeecee~ 400 Injured in hospitals ..........secscevese 300 Survivors accounted for.........ee0. ++ 100 Fifty-three injured persons died on North Brother Island while the doctors were attending to them just after they had been carried from the boat to the shore. When the Slocum went down, at 12:25 o'clock, two hours and twenty-five minutes after the fire was first dis- covered, it is estimated that there were nearly one hundred charred bodies on her decks, Every few minutes a body pops up from the wreck. The corpses of seven adults and one baby were towed from there to North Brother Island at 2 o'clock. Just after the Slocum sank where she had drifted from North Brother Island the water was black with bodies. Slocum’ and discovered soveral dead bodies: ot women and children-lying| The tug Fidelity succeeded in picking up ¢ighty-eight on the blades of the paddle wheels. In removing one of the bodies several other corpses dropped from their positions into the water. On top of the pile of dead the rescuing party discovered a little girl crying and calling for “Mamma.” reach the intoricr of the paddle box as a means of escape, She was the only one of the unfortunate luc that survived, the rest being burned to death, charred corpses before the swirling eddies in Hunt’s Cove off Riker’s Island carried them out into the Sound. None of these eighty-eight bodies can ever be identified. Heads and She with the others had managed to! legs are burned off. Not a shted of clothing is left on any one of them. . The captain of the Fidelity says that he estimates that he left twenty bodies without trying to take them int> .he boat, because i: would have been im: Out of the peril from fire and water came four-year-old Lizzie Krieger | possible to arratige them into any semblance of human remains, without a smudge on her red gown, without a stain on her placid pretty face, She was taken to the Alexander avenue station, where she sat for two hours in a room in which dead women and children were laid out in three long rows. to identify perhaps the dead. To all inquirers she had but one reply: “My mamma is all burned up. T saw her burn.” Her big brown eyes swept over the crowd, as jt surged in and out seeking| free crowd, bound for a day’s outing i. WORST HARBOR HORROR. In sudden paralyzing horror the tragedy has no perallel in the history of marine disasters in this harbor. Within half an hour a laughing, care- the country, was more than deci- mated by fire and water. All the bodies in the Harlem Morgue, on North Brother Island, and An Evening World reporter learned from her that she went to the ex- at the station-houses, will be removed to the Manhattan Morgue at the cursion with her mother and her little brother, Her mother was caught in the flames and some one seized her and the boy. Where he Is she doesenot know. She says that her home fs in Fourteenth street, and it {s probably in the vicinity of First avenue. WORLD OPENS BUREAU TO AID SURVIVORS, foot of East Twenty-sixth street betore midnight, and the Morgue wal be kept open day and night, Patrolmen Abel R. Van Tassel and Charles Kelt, who were detailed to the Gen. Slocum for the excursion, report to Commissioner McAdoo that the fire started at 10.10 A, M, in the forecastle, when tn: boat was opposite One Hundred and Sixteenth street. Coroner O'Gorman, who with a squad of police, made a detailed ‘The World has opened an information bureau at No. 308 East Sixth] search of bodies tor marks of identitication, reports that about $180,006 street for the purpose of aiding survivors of the Slocum disaster In making known their safety and to help the relatives ofthe dead and missing to 'o- cate the bodies of their loved ones, Revised lists will be kept at this bureau and all inqutries will be given careful attention. bas been assigned to answer telephone calls of inquiry. Ladies’, Spectal, ‘Trimmed Hate suitable for reas if you’ do not want the trouble of furnishing a house read the “Fur. nished Houees to Let” ads In World| Wante. Read the Wants to-day. Mee The telephone number {s 2275 J Orchard and a reporter] FIRE North Brother Island, a quarter of a mile away, and on this trip the worth of jewelry and money, or bank books representing money, was found upon the bodies, STARTED IN POT OF GREASE. According to Rev. Dr, Haas, the fire started in the galley from a pan of boiling fat when the boat was off the sunken meadows, opposite One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street. Instead of running his boat ashore One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, Capt. Van Schatck beached hor Gate --- Fire Caused by. (2