The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1904, Page 2

SOREL ERE TE ET 4° THE WORLD:. 'HURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 16,. 1904, PS RT Sam IERT SE BRS STILL BRINGING UP BODIES FROM THE WRECK to hamper me in this way,” ‘AL MEETING OF ALDERMEN. Fornes, of the Board of Aldermen, has issued a call for a of the Board of Aldermen for the purpose of taking appro action on the Slocum disaster, The meeting will be held Saturday at 10.30 o'clock. after studying the reports of his subordinates who Bs ‘clave een at work seeking to recover bodies of the victims, places his esti- “mate of the loss of life at 1,000. He says he is satisfied that not more than Sigmund Barrison, Presidenr of the United States Crematory Company, | Fresh Pond, L. I., has written to Commissioner McAdoo that free crema- will be accorded all bodies of victims of the Slocum disaster that may Divers Peter Gilligan and David Pullock, of the tug Hustler, brought “up fifteen bodies from the wreck of the Slocum on their first trip to the Dottom to-day. The bodies were found well forward and all in a bunch. "The crew of the tug Quigley, casually casting overboard grappling irons ‘while passing up the East River, opposite Randall's Island, dragged up the ‘podies of a man, a woman and a child. “Bix bodies were recovered off North Brother Island by men dragging the shore with grappling irons. ‘I'wo of the bodies were of young girls, two ot boys and two of men. One man was stout, wore a gray sult and tan shoes had @ handsome gold watch in his vest. The other man was slender dressed in black. iH Thomas MoQuade has been grappling for bodies off North Brother {etand, working all night long, and was still at work this afternoon, In all er 4 himself, recovered thirty-six bodies. ; Van Schaick and Pilots Van Wart and Weaver are prisoners in Bellevue to-day, all of them having, been badly burned. WHE SCENE AT BELLEVUE. d ! ‘At Bellevue fifty policemen remained on duty all night under Inspector ‘Brooks, helping the visitors who went there to identify the dead. One woman, Lena Rowski, who found the body of her ten-year-old @aughter, Donda, among the dead at the Morgue, went insane and was taken to Bellevue, where it is said her condition ts considered hopeless ‘Mrs. Rowski knew nothing of the accident untfl she visited the Morgue and did not know that her daughter had been on board the boat. She became so ‘violent it was necessary to place her in a strait-jacket. ‘The big excursion steamers Cygnus and Sirlus, with 1,500 and 2,000 Sun- Way school excursionists aboard, sailed close up to the wreck to-day on their way to the beaches along the Sound and hovered about the neighborhood pf the disaster for some time. . The band of the Sirius pluyed “Nearer, My God, to Thee” and Cygnus's band played “Safe in the Arms of Jesus." Women and children crowded close to the rails of the hig steamers, exhibiting the deepest emotion. The jsame scene was repeated when the Starin barge Sumner, In tow of the tuz oat Fd Levy, was drawn near the wreck and lay to for several minutes. SCENES AT MORGUE BRING MADNESS (Continued from First Page.) the father’s eyes took on a queer look and he kneeled beside the box, chafed + the boy's ears and in a stern tone-ordered him to get up. He evidently ‘hought the boy was in bed and he was exasperated with him because he lay there eo silent and still. His peremptory commands to the lad, uttered in no gentle tones, rang fiscordantly on ears trained all night and day to sobs and shrieks of misery, but it was acon understood. One look at Troell showed him to be a madman. There could be no mistake and he was gently taken away by policemen. Mayor MbClellan arrived at the Morgue at 1 o'clock on the Dock De- partment steamer Manhattan. H was accompanied by Deputy Dock Com-| missioner Dougherty, Assistant Corporation Counsel Breckenridge and} Detective-Sergt. Dunn. . he Mayor walked through the lines of coffins with bared ‘head. He “m emed greatly alected. Near the head of a pler a woman in fron of him recognized her infant child in a coffin and fell in a faint a: the Mayor's feet. Col. MoClellan picked her up and held her until some nurses relieved him. The Mayor refused to say a word to anybody b yond that .e was 50 : arected that he had no heart for words. After leaving ‘the pier the Mayor and his party went 1p to the scene pf the wreck. At North Brother Island the Mayor was met by Health Commissioner Darlington. Dr. Larlington showed the Mayor tue dead still on the island fand where the Gen. Slocum was beached. The Mayor was so affected that Yor a long time he could only »hake his head. Finally he asked Dr. Darling- ‘ton how many he thought had lost their lives. : “It seems to me,” said the Health Commissioner, “that there must be ‘bout 1,000, That is my estimate at this time.” A number of people toid the Mayor of the herole services of this man and that man. The Mayor listened to all these tales and then said: “It seems to me that every man was a hero. It is the spirit of the great American citizen. When have American citizens failed to be heroes in such | trises as this?” : ‘There are strong men. too, whose torn hands and brulsed faces show only too well that they did their whole duty in the great crisis and at last "gave up the!r Ilves, and there are white-haircd men and women, most of| » these with peace written on their faces, for death must have come quick | “\ nd mercifully to those who could resist but feebly. | And so ft has gone on all day, and the duty of some men has called ‘them to hours of these sights. Policemen with wet eyes but firmly set teeth have stood guard over theso dead and miserable living all night long, and. are still there to-day. Time and again they have saved women, who, crazed with grief, have made a plunge for the river for attempts at auicide have been so frequent on the long death pier to-day that they have ceased to be a novelty. Out on the street beyond the pier the police have kept the anxious searchers in some kind of order, but It has only been with the greatost difficulty, for such gricf as this is nc® amenable to discipline. But early _ to-day Capt. Shire, who has gone a giant's work, got the lines formed ) west of First avenue, established a flanking cordon of his men fon either side of Hast Twenty-sixth strect and let the searchers approach by the Bouth sidewalk and go away by the north. FIGHT FOR SIGHT OF THE DEAD. Boats alongside took the bodies to the shore. As they appeared men _ and women ran forward with loud wries and pleadings. All were sure that the nine would include members of their families who had gone down to death, As they fonght for a sight of the dead they hoped against hope that | their suspicions would not be carrect, aud yet they fought, and it was pot = curiosity that prompted them. It was the desire to claim the bodies of those they loved. "Stretched on ihe sends like winvows in a field of harvest were the bodies. ‘They were covered, and those who were not identified were left for a time, 6 those who were recognized were removed by the police. | Never did day brenk on such a scene of grief as marked the finding of th d by the divers on Hunt's Point. Working among the living, with cheering words for them and prayer for ; dead, was Vastor Haas. Nover once did he leave the rows of dead, excep Phe steamed in a launch out to the side of the wreck and with grappling in hand waited tb assist in bringing some other body to the surface, of those who were searching for their own a doublo Jook’in some of those boxes. Take that box plainly marked No, there was a woman of great prea. wie curly-headed child on and they looked so Lscossraurdte raed it was hard to believe thar : ’ @ {night these men got out 217 bodi \after the Chap fesue warrants for thes- men. It is not fair for the Knickerbocker ISCENES INSIDE THE MORGUE; THOUSANDS IDENTIFYING THE DEAD. HORTIFIED IVER WEEP WHILE WORKING suits, others with grappling hooks in their hands stood on the decks of tuga were recovered another tug from which divers were not working would pull alongside and the dead transferred, How many ‘dead lie in that charred and sunken hull cannot even be estimated until every nook and corner of the shell has been gone over by the divers, Chief among the divers Is John Rice, who figured in the Zoonton catas- trophe, in which Diver Oleson lost his life. He directed the efforts of the other div and now and again he would plunge into the cold waters and go down z the dead The Naval iienerve launch Oneida came alongside. The crew of the tugboats were fast becoming fatigued. Every man of them was ready to; faint. It took strong nerve and manly determination for them to continue) their work among the dead, Roundsmen Klute and Giloon, with Policemen George Mott, Murphy, Skelly, Grey and Healey, of the Harbor Squad, worked steadily with the’ Chapman crew and the Naval Reserve crew. his number included those taken out in tug arrived at the side of the Slocum, Then human endurance failed every man, Divers staggered about the Idecks like drunken men lifted the weight of a child, More divers and more men were sent. There were many wio were willing to come, There were fathers, brothers and husbands lining the shore on Hunter's Point, and every one of them paced quiet, others crying out to the searchers among the dead. These mon wero ready to volunteer for the work of diving, for the work of grappling the dead with the great tron hooks. Albert Blenberg and Harry Hier, of the Chapman Company, came aboard. ‘These menare «divers of experience. John Rice greeted them ‘Go down below men,” he sald, Quickly Blenberg and Hier donned the great rubber diving suits. men were fresii, and they were xs willing as they were fresh, over the side of the tug and sank from sight without a word, When the sun rose these two men came te the surface. Thesa They slipped In Blenberg’s was easy to see how these children had died, They had died together and death could not part them. Their hair was the same color and their dresses were alike, These girls wero sisters, Hier had the form of a young woman in his arms. She might have been the mother of these children, Her body was found near them, and in her dead hands she cligped the dresses of the two little girls. The divers found them far down In the hold. It appeared that the woman had tried to save the little ones and had gone to her dcath with them, “There are six othere uncer there,” sald Hier. “They are buried under the hurricape deck.” Without another word the two divers stepped over the side and went down to the bottom ef the hulk. Again they appeared. Again they went down, and each time they appeared they brought the body of some child o tome woman. & two sisters were. Others were burned and twisted. In a sworn statement made to-day to Assistant District-Attorney Gar- van the first officer of the Gen: Slocum, Edward Flanagan. said that the fire hose on board the boat was defective. he said, Flanagan is under subpoena for the Coroner and will be on hand, two county detectives having been assigned to seo that he is present when! Wanted, All through the night and into the gray dawn of to-day men in diving, which hovered about the sunken wreck of the General Slocum off Hunt’s| Point. Nédw and then a man in one of the weird-looking suits would slip over tho side of a tug and sink to the bottom. Then another diver would appear on the surface, Probably he had come to the surface for rest and alr. Probably he held :the body of al woman or the body of a child in his rubber-coated arms. The chances were) that he had come up with the/ d, for those divers felt no exhaustion as they groped about the bottom of the river among the dead. As a diver would bring a body to the surface aygrappling hook was Placed under It and it was ratsed to the deck of a tug. Some of these bodies were twisted and burnt ‘almost beyond recognition, When several bodiey During the earlier part ef the! Men on the decks fell over each other as they like a madman up and down the sands, some sobbing, some dry-eyed and armé were two little girls, each with her arms clasped about the other. It! of them were clasped in each other's arms, just aa the From Photographs Taken for The Evening World by Photographer Curtis. CAAT SIDE PLUNGED IN DEPTHS OF GnleF thousands of aching hearts and weeping eyes. Nearly every house in Sixth street, between First and Second avenues, has crape tied to the front door, At one tenement, five storles high, five pieces of mourning cloth fluttered, indicating that five families had selected from among their dead their dear ones. And the pity of it all was that on nearly every piece of mourning there was a white ribbon, showing that the dead body was that of a child. Women, mothers, stood at thelr doors to-day waiting for some word of the missing. They had stood there all night. To-day their eyes were red and swollen, and as the neighbors passed and asked: | “Heard anything yet?" they answered, ‘Not yet.” shake of the head which made their sorrow pathetic. Mrs. Emma Koldorst first heard of the accident to the Gen. Slocum at) 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and since then she has been, without rest or food, in front of her home at No. 177 First avenue, Every undertaker's | wagon that passes, every patrol wagon and every ambulance she follows | for a block until she can learn from the man in charge that her two little | children are not in them, | This precinct of sorrow is bounded by Second avenue on the west, Ayenue A on the east, Elghth street on the north and Third street on the lcouth. In hardly a house is there a family which has not lost a member. They have appealed to the police, to the church and to the newspapers for information. Men stand in little groups throughout this district, eagerly {purchasing every edition of every newspaper which comes out and then anxiously, fearfully scanuing the list of the dead, the list of the missing SHOCKED 10 DEATH BY A TROLLEY FEED RAIL And there was @ Merwin Raine, a Laborer in Subway at City Hall Park, Came in Contact with Surface Line Current. Merw aine, borer, who was) tric feed rail, when he inadvertently i) eee ane ne i sgnon Con-|leaned against it, Immediately his body tracting Company, din. the |became attached to the rail and his subway construction work under City|back began to burn. Hall Park, was shocked to death this| Foreman Joseph Kirchiner, of No. 19 afternoon while working under the trol-| Washington street, at considerable per- ley condult on Centre street, opposite| sonal risk managed to drag the burn- t aats Zeitung Butlding, Ing man from the lve rail, and he was carried up to a nearby ditch. He died before an ambulance arrived from Hud- son Street Hospital, The foreman sal that he had repeatedly warned the man to keep clear of the deadly rail. Tl was assigned to serape the plaster off the masonry directly —be- neath the trolley slot of the west track, His body was on a level with the elec- TORNADO’S DEATH LIST Santiago Centre of Furious Storm That Caused Loss of Life, Great Damage and Water Famine There. - “Had it been good fire hose we could have saved the ship and all lives,"’ CUBA, June 16.—A the surrounding country, SANTIAGO DE ANTS ‘ne death list is more than-one hun- jeyelone of unusual severity, accom- coat i tneeweninn panied by unprecedented rain, has| "Phe aqueduct has been damaged and caused great damage to this city and Bywater famine exi t In the narrow confines of a few blocks on the east side there are! MORE THAN 100 IN CUBA INQUIRIES 10 FIX” BLAME FOR DEATHS Coroners, District-Attorney, Mayor Mc- Clellan and the National Authorities All Start Rigid Investigations Into Awful Disaster on the Gen. Slocum. -” Now that the work of rescue is over the offictals of the various municl- pal and Federal departments are setting about an investigation, or a series of investigations, which shall determine the cause of the disaster and to whom: the blame belongs, if there be such an individual. The captain of the boat and his two pilots are the only prisoners, alk though all the other members of the crew who survived are where the offi- cials can place hands upon them. The District-Attorney’s office has secured a number of the life-preserv- ers carried on the Gen. Slocum, and while personal opinion of a number of the District-Attorney's assistants is that they are defective and in no way comply with the requirements of the jaw they will be thoroughly tested. They were passed only a couple of weeks ago by the Government steamboat inspectors as being all right. It is known that they were not sufficiently buoyant to float some of the people who jumped from the boat. Coroners Berry and O'Gorman, of the Bronx, have not determined-when they will hold the rquest. “It will probably be a woek before the inquest is conrmenced.” said Coroner Berry to-day. ‘‘We propose to have all the information we need before we mo ahead. Then we shall be able to fix the blame, if there is blame without needless adjournments, and we believe the verdict which will be warranted by the facts will be reached before two weeks have passed.” ‘Mayor McClellan to-day conferred with several high city officials, in- cluding Corporation Counsel Delany and Police Commissioner McAdoo, de- yising 4 means, if such is found to come within the jurisdiction of the mu- nicipal authorities, for getting at the very foundation of rhe responsibility for the Slocum disaster, A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen may be called. A rigid favestigtion of the disaster has aleo been ordered by Secretary Cortelyou, of the Department of Commerce and Labor. The investigation will be conducted by the Steamboat Inspection Service, under the direction of George Uhler, Supervising Inspector-General. It will be conducted by Gen. James A. Dumont and Thomas H. Barrett, constituting the local Boarg of Steamboat Inspectors in New York. WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. | ; Emma Gibbons committed suicide to- day at her home, No. 268 Baet One | gun ri Hundred and Twenty-elghth by drinking carbolic acid. Se anne LONDON STOCKS QUIET. LONDON, June 16.—Money was plenti- ful in the market to-day and there was a moderate demand. Trading on the Stock Exchange was quiet, but the ton mostly was steady, Americans open’ weak on the announcement of the pro- posed Issue of preferred stock of the Southern Pacific Railroad, ‘The market was Inactive at below parity and closed irregular. Forelgners were firm Paris support. SHIPPING NEWS, y” ALMANAC FOR To-pay. 4.28|8un sets, 7.32|Moon sets. 0.68 THE TIDES. High Water. AM. TACOMING: STEAMSHIPS, D WEATHER FORECAST. 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