The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1904, Page 4

welve-Year-Old Boat with Rope PET LAER AT A { {THOUGHT DEAD ~ TELLS OF RESCUE Clara Hartmann, Picked Up for Dead, Towed Behind and Laid in Line with Dead Bodies on Pier. i dia little Clara Hartmann! When had done everything in her power jave ber mother and sister Margery, she made a courageous fight for her ‘own life and Is to-day at her home, No. |s@ East Tenth street, recovering from he severe effects of her experience. But most remarkable {s the story which the ‘twelve-year-old girl tells of her escape from being taken to the Morgue, she thaving already been Iald in a line of “twenty-nine dead and tagged with the loath mark of identification. Three hours before the seemingly lead body of little Clara had been eked up by the crew of a launch ready laden beyond {ts capacity with Victims of the disaster, There was eliher time to lift Clarajs body from thé water nor space upon the deck of ithe Iaunch for another body, so a rope twas fastened to the waist and the Magnch towed Clara to the pier at the foot of East One Hundred and Thirty- ighth street. Clara was the last to bo raised to the wharf, where a man from a neighbor- ing coal yard wrapped what he sup- posta to be the corpse of the little girl in Aétarpaulins Then Clara was loaded fon a truck with a dozen dead bodies of fwoinen and children and was trans- rted to the Alexander avenue police Istation, The bodies were taken from the stguck and laid in a row, according to thelr number, on the floor of the sta- Mon-house. Aska Surgeon for Her Death Tag. \peOtara’s number was twenty-four, Atwice her age. She says she never will forget that number, and she 1s going to ask the sergeant of the station-house to'give her the death tag which the kind surgeon removed from her dress Fwhen it was discovered that she was falive. She will save the tag as a omemento of her dual escapes from Ta@fath and being sent to the Morgue. was a woman volunteer who had Jehtered the station-house to ald the ‘police and the doctors to establish iden- {tifying marks of the dead women and children, who made the discovery that “No, 14" was yi live. She was ex- ning the child's clothing when a Mm convulsive movement indicated Presence of life. °A moment later jan's cries of ‘Thin little girl Is jaltvet’ Come, quick!" at once brought ‘th§ ‘doctors and nurses to Clara's side. ‘prompt agtendance and efforts fed. the girl's life. was propped up in snow white at her home to-day when an ening World reporter called. The lettor had just departed, having pulled through fever last night. With thé. exception of a slight tremor in her le@ aud an occasional twitching of her long slender white fingers, there )Was no other evidence of the terrific or- ‘deal to which the child had been sub- jiqetea, Held Mands and Then Jumped. “I shall never forget when mamma | ‘nd sister Margery said ‘God help us!’ when they saw the fire come up out of thefront end of the boat, and the peo- Ple;many of whom we knew, began to Tush around the big boat,” sald Clara, “Mamma called me to her and she took old of Margery's hand and mine and she said ‘Stay with me.’ "Margery only recently graduated the public school and was con- and I was proud of her. She was , Good sister, but she and mamma are covered, drowning all around me. lost now, I don't see how they could have reached the shore. Mamma and Margery and I remained on the boat, still holding hands, until the flames got awfully close and hot. Everybody was then jumping into the water, and, as we didn't want to get burned up, we decided to jump, too, “There were so many In the water near where he wanted to jump that we had to walt a while befare the space was cloar and then all jumped together, still holding hands, But the moment we got Into the water wo had to let 0 of each other to do what we could for ourselves. “I felt I wasn't going down and, see- ing Margery and mamma near by, 1 tried to save them, for they were strug. ilng awfully. ‘Then a lot of swimm got around us and we were raat L I heard Margery say again, ‘Ged tare ust" then she gave a gasp and sank out of sight. I guess Margery's heart gavo Way. Mamma I didn't seo after that, "While T was keeping afioat a man came noar me, and 1 grabbed him around the neck. He was awfully mean, for he tried to push me away but T just hung onto him as hard as 1 could. He tried again to push me away. but T told him that T oontd hota and we would soon be 01 ho pushed harder than ever eng ay head went under the water often. ‘Then I felt him sinking. and I let go, and 1 must have fainted, That was the first time that I ever fainted in my Ute, She Lont Consctousnens, don't know what happened to me that until I came to life, they tell me, in the Ale: ander avenue sta- tlon-house, but T must have floated and been picked up by a boat. They told me afterward that 1 was towed behind @ launch, but I didn't feel it. “When I got out of my faint {t was in the afternoon, when I thought It was yet morning. I heard men tramping on the floor and felt I was lying on weme. ting very hard @pd that my head was nen there was talk about taking the dead people awny and then I remembered the fire amd the people “y after Seat ete Beret + too, My stomach got slek—T had ewallowed @ whole lot of salty water and J did want awfully to wet rid of that water, Then it began to gush out of my mouth and a woman sald, ‘This little girl ain't dead,’ and she called, ‘Doctor, doctor,’ quick, Ike that, “Thoy pulled the cover off my head and I began to feel very much better and the alr came to me. It felt good, too, They took me up from the floor and put me on a soft couch, and then I was taken to the hospital, where they treated me nicely. I cried when T remembered mamma and Margery, but the hospital nurses told me they were safe, but they haven't come home yet. “Willle Reitz, my cousin, found me in the hospital and | was gind to see him, He ts only thirteen, but he went around hoxpltaln looking for mé, nd mamma, he told me when let him come 40 my couch. home and they brought me d wok me here “Fauline Jordan, of No. 87 Third ave- nue, who plays with me, was in the to me In the hospital, and we xcursion and the fire etting beter. I think mamma, too, and her erine was dreadfully burned Ming to haye my hadr cut off to-day, for it Is all matted and can't be combed out, T hate to lose my, curls, but the halr will grow out again.” SLOCUM HEROES \ t ‘Against Them Is Dismissed— , Both Did Heroic Work. wo men who distinguished them- fulves by rescuing victims of the seamer Gen. Slocum were arraigned im the Harlem Court to-day, one being charged — with intoxieation and the f, having been arrested on a war- Tyant issued on complaint inade by his father. ‘Bdward McCarroll, of > =) Morris ‘was one vf the crew of the tug yh one his own life. Whe rescu persun he was so exliaustal that ited. MeCarroll was arrested last night, charged with inloxication. After th t had been made, the policeman eave, Jolin Smith, of the t fed and Twenty-sixth sireet stu , learned who MecCarrol! way nd no time in informins the Magis- trate of the circumstances when he ar- ed the prisoner this morning lagistrate Baker promptly dinniixued he complaint and comp!imented } oll on his heroism wenty-elght, of No, 17 ie, Wis arrested on it procured by hia fathe charged him with assault 4 the charge, and se ily, Including his mother and sisicrs, court and stated that the father and has made life almost un- ble for them all. t Jacob obs was held in d behavior for three months Jacobs was in charge of the la-water stand on the . Hoax asked him to get le-preservers for the women dren, and he stood upon the n life-preservera and fasten them often Sptag it for them. ably har out nearly re, about fitty WW HARLEM COURT: Edward Carroll and Jacob) ‘Jacobs Arraigned, but Charge FATHER SEAS HS THREE CHILDREN Adolf Moliter Finds Bodies of; Wife and Four Relatives, but Has No Trace of Daughter and Sons. For forty-eight hours, with scarcely any sleep, Adolph Moliter, of Sherwood Park, near Mount Vernon, has searched for hia wife and three children and four other relatives who were on board the General Slocum, but he has been able to find the bodies of only four of his missing loved ones, He cannot get any trace of his three children, Carl, Eva and Joseph, who wi Jast seen on the steamboat, just before she ran on North Brother Island shore, “I don't know what has become of my children," sald Mr. Moliter, who is for man at the Bronx Br Ty, to-day, have searched high and low for them, but can get no trace. I belleve they are| drowned and are floating somewhere in the Sound, It ts very mysterious and 1am almost heartbroken over thelr loas. “I found the body of my wife and mgr aay and Mrs. Henry C. Sehnud ONLY TWO SHED OF PARTY OF 13 Cashier Henry C. Schnude, of Kountze Banking House, His Wife, Children and Parents All Lost on Slocum. Out of thirteen persons In a party on the Gen. Slocum, celebrating the sixth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Behnude but two were saved, Mr Schnude was cashier In the Kountze banking-house at No, 1% Broadway: He married the daughter of Henry Kasretbaum, of No. 19 Guernsey street, Brooklyn, his bovhood sweetheart, and lived at that address with his father- children, Grace, aged four years, and Mildred, aged two, and his wife's un- married sister, Nettle Kasselbaum, Next door lived his sister-in-law, Mrs, Frederica Tonyeroft, with two children. Francis, aged four, and Charles, aged two. At No. 19 Guernney street lived Mrs, Carl Ro§erts, a widow with one child. Bhe was an tatimate friend of the Karselbaum family, All of those above were membern of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church. Mr. Schnude warn a deacon in the church and had charge of taking the tickets and selling the lemonade on the excursion, It happened that the excur- sion date war fixed on the sixth annt- versary of his marriage and he doter- mined to make the excursion an occ: sion for a family celebration, Thirteem Started on Excursion, With that view in mind he invited his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs, Henry these the party Comprixed thirteen per- sons, Mr, Isasselbaum was unable to THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1904 GIRL WHO CAME TO LIFE AFTER BEING LAID IN LINE OF DEAD. BABY BOY WASHED UP ALIVE ON NORTH BROTHER ISLAND. a A i a Ne i aie all TO Hl bi ‘ / BABY FROM WRECK MADE MANY FRIENDS. + iGrandmother Claims in Lebanon Hos- pital the Blue-Eyed Infant that Was Washed Up Alive on Shore of Nortb Brother Island. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Smiling upor disaster, cooing in the face of death, a little blue-eyed, blond-hajred baby was washed in by t ine tide at North Brother Island yes- terday and parse’ from the arms of a Lig policeman to those of Supt. Will- jam Daub, of the Lebrnon Hospital. BODIES. REMAIN. UNGLAIMED IN MORGUE 482 Have Been Identified and 32 Are So Badly Burned that Recognition Is Impossible— Crowds Seek Missing Relatives. To-day saw a repetition at the morgue of the sad scénes which were enacted there yesterday. In the drizzling rain of the early part of the day In-law and mother-in-law, his wife, two there stood hundreds ot anxious ones waiting for their chance to see the dead, and with them were scores of others who had made the gloomy trip f coffins time and again without finding those they sought, yet waited on in the hope that the next consignment of bodies would include tnem. Capt. Shire, of the East Thirty-fifth street station, replaced all his | elderly policemen with new and younger men to-day. Some of the men were so horrified at the scenes they had to witness all day yesterday that ‘they asked to be relieved. Many of them had children of their own and | the strain on such was so great that toward night it became unbearable. Capt. Shire has been commended on all sides for the excellent work he has done in keeping order at the pier and in the streets approaching it. There was a pathetic scene at the pier to-day when Edward Speckter, of No. 144 Essex street, tound the body of his little girl Elsie in a coffin. ! He could not be controlled for a moment and, standing over the rude white | watch and his Ying and his purse in beside the body of between the rows box, he threw Schnude, sr, to secompany him. With) the child, exclaiming: “Take all, take all, now you have taken her!” attend. The following wera clther’ G@RIEHK DRIVES FATHER INSANE. a boy still missing, but the little girl was his favorite. Right behind Speckter, who was led away with difficulty, came two men, rancis and one of whom was obviously maddened by the grief he had undergone. | He was searching for his daughter, but he could not find Ker. ‘Ke her turning over a lot of empty coffins when the police decided to take him if The man fought desperately. | You've got her body,” he yelled. “You're trying to keep her from me. Give me my little girl.” He was finally taken away. His companion refused to give his name. ' The meddling of avaricious undertakers and the determination of the the boat, All were wealthy, without a Manhattan Coroners to upset the arrangements made by the Bronx. Coroners to keep track of the dead resulted in two bodies, which last night, being lost to-day, drowned or Killed by the fire; Mr. and Mrs, Henry Bo thelr two children, Grace and Mildred; Mys. Tony- croft and two chiklreo, Charles, and Mrs. Roberts and her baby. Mra. Kasselbaum and her daughter Nettle were saved, Nettle t leg leaping to a tug from the burnin) boat and ja in Lebanon Hospital ‘The bodies of Henry C. selinude and his wife, the two children of Mra, Tony- croft and Mrs. Roberta have been re- covered, ‘The rest are numbered among the missing. ‘The Schnude party Was the gayest on care $n the world, and bound upon a pleasure trip that had started most place on the malin deck for his réla- tives and busied himeelf on the lower that was to follow at Locust Grove. lipho rest sat together, the iltue children) s hanging about their grandparents, con- his brother-in-law tentment on every face. It #0 happened that from thetr post- tion the Hite party could not see the heard creams of terror nA rush, of flames swept out and engulfed them, Carried Down the Rush. says Mrs. Kagselbaum, 0 people charged us. We doin a second, but my Nettle kept hold of me ard were awent toward the rail together ‘After that I never saw my married daughters or thelr children again Hine fighting and excitement wern terrifying, Nettle and T remained on doce Until) Tosaw Pastor Haas jump Overboard with his wife and daughter my elstersin-law, Fannio Irvington, | peer hroke Away and Jumpede too Mamle Hagenbucher, Julia Dunn and her son Arthur, I have searched the morgues, hospitals and police stations, ‘annot Ket any word of my chil- The funeral of Mrs, Moliter and h sisters will be held on Sunday afters noon af No, 186 Lexington avenue, Manhattan, a Cont O11 an a Cure, (From the Kansas City Journal.) Grandfather Stephén Alley, of Stroud, has kept his twenty-year-old asthma dn check by drinking a mouthful of coal oll Di © last two years, He has sw quantities of other i t deriving hardly , yey iM ou ; Remedies toF his chrontecommaint uate: just before retiring every night. Hy arunk gullons of this me up until we were tig. TE have heard si not know It until the next’ day, when We found that vhe was In. the Nospital vith her right leg brol his Is probably fant mpl uweul horr afl that Mre a4 in survive ¢ hock. She le vo Dig aoe ty Brooklyn ere i few aye ago her grandenildren played and her young son-in-law and his wife wore facing nude, ar, Mr, | FEW ST, MARK’S OFFICERS LEFT Majority of Them Lost in Wreck of the Slocum—Only Seven Saved Out of Mixed Choir of Twenty. Before St, Mark's German Lutheran Church can resume its regular parish work it will be necessary to elect al- | mom an entirely new set of oMeers. ‘There 18 scarcely a handful of the obt oMcers left, and ft is doubtful if many of the records of the church can ever be recovered, as some of the most valu- ‘ame of them were In the personal i ‘charge of the officers, and every effort ‘to find them has been futile. Some of tho dead officers of the \chureh = are; Sunday-School Supt. Charles A. Anger; Secretary William Ha Schisefer; Treasurer William H. Pullinan, who was also the teacher of the ‘nfant class; his assistant, Mies Mary Abendgch Jacob Hiller, the Janitor of the church; Cord ‘Sachman, the seoretary of the church; H. C. Schnude, tho superintendent of the Eng- lish Sunday-school; Peter Fottig, the chairman of the Poor Committee, and these elders: Henry Genres, G. H. Witte. John J. Brunning, H. E. Banor- nelm and H, Pottesbaun, Out of a mixed cholr of twenty which served the ehurch voluntarily jus en men are left. The bahy's clothes were drenched, but they were not torn. And around his neck he still wore the sky-blue ribbon marked in black lettrs “St. Mar- cus's Sonnte. the last Slaughter of Innocents. In the Superintendent's arms he where Nurse McCzllum, in charge of th Schule,” which proc:aimed him one of the few survivors of was hurried to Letanon Hospital, e children's ward, undressed him and put him in a little white-enamelied bed and marked him 144. One hundred and forty-four he re- mained until last night, when a bent, gray-haired old lady tottered Into the ward in charge of Nurse McCallum, took one look at him as he lay asleep and gathered him In her arma. She wns Mrs, Augusta Dehit, of No. 38 Sixth street, whose daughter-in-law, | Mary Debit, is still among the missing | victims of the Slocum horror. The baby she recognized as her grandson, Charles Debit, ten months | old. : She was the last of more than two hundred distre domen and women | who since Wednesday afternoon have | visited the children's ward in thelr hunt for “little blond bables.”* “They all seemed to be looking for blond babies." sald the nurse, Miss Mc- | Crllum, “When they were told in the office that we had one baby here an- swering to that description their faces would brighten and they could hardly | wait for me to bring them upstairs.’ But when they had !ooked at Nq 144 they would shuke their heads, and the mothers, and sometimes the fathers, too, would break down and sob: “Zam not a sensitive woman. I have watched the most cruel surgical opera- tions without flinching—even the sight of the maimed and charred adult vi tims of the wreck did not destroy my nerve. But when I saw that little baby lock up into the faces of the strange women who bent over his crib and Hft up his little arms and coo at them, and then saw the “mothers shake their heads and turn away sob- bing, I cried—I couldn't help it. Sorry to Purt with Raby. “He was such a sweet Iittle buby that T was really very sorry to part with him. I almost wished he would never be claimed. He did not cry at all when he wus Bioxes up, but a he Was brought here he clamored for food, He/| was very hungry. I tried to give him| milk out of a cup, but he Was too young for that, and wouldn't take It.) But when I fixed some in a bottle for him he was happy. I couldn't get the bottle away frem lim. Why, he drank sixteen ounces of milk before he would alive it up. “After that he never cried once all the time he was here. He would He in his cot smiling, or else coo at the nurses to make them take him up and walk with him. Keeps Ribbon as Souvenir. “We were all sorry to rt with him, but T have w souvenir ot him that 1am joing to keep always—the little blue junday-school ribbon he wore around his neck when he was washed ashore.” Miss MoCalum is not the only in- mate of Lebanon Hospital who has a souvenir of the Httle waif who laid his hand upon the ocean's mane and played the little fellow which to her this morning by and went fais father in gratitude for the care n had been taken of him, “He was the finest little fellow we have ever had here,” she sald this morning. “When hundreds of people had come here and he still rema'ned unclaimed T began to think that he would never be called for, and T had asked my father to adopt him. He had Promised me that he would do so when the bubv'e grandmother came and took him home." All Prained Raby Boy. Even Supt. Daub, from whom one nuld scarcely expect such entluslasmn n the subject of babies as from. twe women, was loud In hie vratse of the Uttle boy, = “He wis a fine Mttle chap." he sald. “Why. when a policeman threw bim In my arms th f the wreck he smiled at me. And on his way to the hospital, and ever since. he was a per- fect little gentleman. T was sorry to lose. but. oh, his father and his grandmother were xo glad to get him pac Tt was last night that Charles Debit said good-by to his new-found friends ack to shed the sunshine of his baby presence on the home made desolate by, the absence of his mothen= still numbered among the missing. —$—$—=__—_ jobility” in Crime. The gang of professional dealers tn stolen securities, which has been run to earth through the arrest of the cafe tout, Leon Hellest, at Havre, proves to be a’ remarkable one. The gang had its headquarters in Paris, and Its chief is A man of title, Baron’ G. de Chab who purchased the securitles, re leas of whether they had been’ obtained by murder or. by mere plunder, and kept In his employ a highly skilled en- Braver named Lanckmann, who, with the ald of chemical washes, effgcted a tes, to evade the ‘ numbers, which firat caused bankers | to communicate with the police. The Part of Bellest was to dispose of the securities among commercial men using amnton haats, ESTABLISHED OVER 25 YEARS. N. S. BRANN, 231 Eighth Ave., ®t 2st & OPEN EVENINGS. Hisndaome ‘14-kt. if Pin $5.00 up ake pita’ pee in ster- Grad ver a, 90c up Send for Illustrated Catalogue, Hail Orders Promptly Attended To, The bodies were those of Richter, aged three and four years respectively, and iam Richter, a clerk in the Finance Department. Richter’s wife and ten-year-old son Fred were found yesterday, and , A. T. Hill, of No. 101 Meserole street, Brooklyn, | ‘found the bodies of the two girls last night. They were marked Nos, fire when Jt started. All at once they) 473 and 175. To-day when Hill came to get the bodies they were gone. Other, bodies bore these numbers, and the children could not be found ‘on the pier anywhere. MORBID CURIOSITY SEEKER SWOONS. A number of women fell fainting in the Morgue to-day. them, a Mrs. Sephiner, of No. 300 West Seventeenth street, excited un- usual sympathy by her lamentations as she passed up and down the lines of dead. She finally fell in a swoan and when restored and asked who she had identified, replied that she had not identifled anybody, but had come to the Morgue out of curiosity and had been overcome by seeing so many dead people. Li A Mrs. Ella Stahl, who lives on Sixtieth street, was also overcome while She said she was looking for a boy named Auspiciously. Mr. Sthnude found a were identified | Kate and Lizzi dock with the preparations for the feast daughters of Wil One of i A man wearing a Ife-preserver held; icked up by a} that Nettie] jumped onto this same tug, but I did| ) looking around the Morgue, She didn’t find him. ymmissioner Darlington announced to-day that all the bodies which are etl waldentified at the close to-morrow will be turned over to the trus- Mark's Chureh for burial. Commissioner Darlington has’ excused most of the Medical Inspectors of the Department from the regular duties devolving upon them in order a long life that appeared to be a vista of perfect happiness. Killed by a Fall Downstairs, medioin L mi SUC night from conoussion of the brain, due {oO an injury received Monday, when she fell_downatairy, ‘at her residence, No, @ William street, Orange. ider whatever medical attenttion may be necesssary to the btrteaved families in the vicinity of St Mark’s Church. At 2 o'clock tits afternoon there were 74 bodies at the Morgue. 32 bodies are in the Morgue proper, Dut are so burned that no identification Mts. Susan Rovney dicd Wednesday} of them will be possible. The other 42 are on the Charities Department pier, Of these 30 have been {dent!fied and 12 still remain unknown In all 526 bodies bave been rece! sthese 482 have bven identified, Hyed atthe Morgue from the Mret: Of nail abi. lh ER a lt cs as i: yy iN We never advertise unless we have extraordinary values to offer, THE EXCITEMENT is growing greater every hour ; the store is packed and thronged with eager buyers; everybod: delighted and more than satisfied with the wonderful values eS are ispeniag at the yieeanes ca... Great Outing Suit Sale! ) $15,000 Reserve Stock of Outing Suits Bought by Us at 50c. On the Dollar. 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