The evening world. Newspaper, June 22, 1904, Page 3

EXPLOSION TO ANSE Anticipated Result Was that Every One Remaining In or About the Wreck of the Steamship Would Be Dislodged and Brought to the Surface. LAST SLOCUM DEAD. OFFICIAL POLICE FIGURES OF THE GEN, SLOCUM DISAS TER. NaS, 771 x00 RODIES RECOVERED. BODIRS IDENTIFIED REVISED LIST OF MISSIN! ninety-six feet of water off North Brother Island this afternoon for the purpose of bringing up the 150 or more corpses that are supposed to be rest- ing in the mud about the wreck of the Slocum. The experiment of firing big guns on the surface yesterday was 0 satisfactory in causing bodies to reach the surface that !t is believed the dynamite will uncover every corpse that remains, ‘ The dynamite reached North Brother Island at noon on a barge towed by the Merritt-Chapman tug Hustler. It was in bags containing 100 pounds each and was sunk in the channel at points indicated by an expert who made electrical connections. The first charge of dynamite was exploded at a point about two hun- dred yards out from the pler on the west shore of North Brother Island. Contrary to expectations there was little commotion, but the explosion was accompanied hy a deep and thunderous report and a vibration that was plainly felt by those on the island. Thousands of fish were stunned. WITNESSES UNDER DETENTION. Before the Coroner's inquest in the Slocum disaster was continued to- day it was found that in the Coroner's private office, at One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street and Third avenue, seven men prisoners had been de- tained over night and that one woman had been under survelllance and is now being followed by county detectives. Most of the men held were members of the Slocum crew, while the woman is one of the most important witnesses at the inquest. She was permitted to go to her home, but one detective stood in front of her house and another in the rear, to prevent persons interested from communicating with her in any manner. CAPT. VANWART FOUND AT LAST. | Before the inquest was resumed to-day Coroner Berry announced that he had succeeded at last in serving a subpoena on Capt. Vanwart, who had been first pilot of the Slocum. Capt. Vanwart was found last night at his home. He was commanded to appear to-day and give his testimony, but. begged off until to-morrow because of his physical condition. Vanwart's hips are burned. The Rev. George Schulz, rector of St. Luke's Lutheran Church of Erle, Pa., who was on the Slocuin, gave this graphic description of the calamity: , “The first I knew of a fire aboard was when 1 saw the flames shooting out the stairway. There was no alarm, no signals. The children were on the lower deck playing bean bag and jumping rope. The forward part of the boat was enveloped in fire. I ran forward and met the pastor's wife. She was much alarmed. I looked again in the direction of the fire and saw nothing but smoke. The first apprehension of real danger I had was when I saw a member of the craw, a deck hand, come running from the cabin. | Women and children were clinging to him, They called to him for help and he trushed them aside, answering their appeals gruffly. He pushed through the crowd, mounted the rail and leaped overboard. “At this time the upper deck was alive to the alarm. The children had begun climbing down and I helped to pass them down. My hands were full and it was a task too great for my strength. The little ones soon began jumping overboard. One child struck me on the temple as she leaped. When I reached for a life-preserver it come down, but the weight ¥ of it alone broke the strap. Seeing it was useless I threw it away. NO RESCUE WORK BY CREW. Q. Did you see any members of the crew «ry to do anything to save people? A. No; only I saw one of them with a hose, but there was no water. Q. Did any of the women or children get life-preservers? A. Not that I saw. They were strapped to the ceiling and they could not reach them. B. F. Conklin, of Catskill, chief engineer of the Slocum, was called. He had been chief engineer of the steamer for twelve seasons, with the excep- tion of two months. Q. Did the Skh&um have any steam pipes to force steam into her com- partments in case of fire? A. She did not. Q. Don’t you know that the law requires that all steam be so equipped? A. I never heard of such a provision. Q. Was there a fire drill on the Gen, Slocum this year? vessels should A. There was not Q. Before that? A. There was last year. Q. (by a juror) Did you receive any word or any order from the cap- tain? A. None, only what Mate Flanagan told me, that the boat was on fire. Q. (by Mr. Garvan) Was any test ever made of this fire hose? A. Not that I know of. i Q. Did you go around with the inspectors when they Inspected the boat? A. ¥ Q. Did they test the hose? A. No. Q. Was any engine tested? A. No, only that the inspector asked me if everything was all right, and he took my word. Q. You told him everthing was all right. A. Yes, I believed everything was all right. Conkling raid he had seen the inspectors inspect the rubber hose which was used for washing down the decks, but did not see him inspect the fire hose. Counsel for the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company announced, after Conkling was excused, that the company would concede that no new life- preservers had been purchased for the Gen. Slocum since 1895. “This partially proves our contention,” said Mr. Garvan, “but now we will prove that none have been purchased for the Slocum since 1891, when the boat was built.” Tt was further admitted by the Knickerbocker Company that acids were used to erase names on books and bills and that no life-prerervers were! purchased for the Slocum since 1895. \ MISS HALL RECALLED. { Mies L. C. Hell, bookkeeper for the Knickerbocker Company, who ad- mitted yesterday making acid erasures from bills for life-preservers so as to lead to the presumption that they were charges against the lost steamer Half a ton of dynamite was exploded at the bottom of the river under when in truth they were charges against the Grand Republic, ‘was recalled to the stand. The first question by the Assistant District-Attorney was as to certain entries regarding life-preservers in accounts payable, and it brought Attorney McManus to his feet with an objection. “I don't see the relevancy of this testimony now,” he sald, “and I ob- ject. After making the concession I have, I don’t know what the District- Attorney wants, We concede that the company bought no life preservers for the Gen. Slocum since 1895. What more do you want?” “The officers are trying to shirk responsibility and put it on the cor- poration,” said Mr. Garvan. LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS-SECRET, d. K. Atkinson, secretary of the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, STEAMBOAT INSPECTOR LUNDBERG, WHO R TO TESTIFY, AND MISSIN PLO SEASGS9ESHO$GODOTLOGET II TY HOPG HIOSSSE SES G 9ODO09HOOOOOH NO TRACE OF KATIE KLEM, WHO WAS ON SLOCUM. | One of those who was on the General Slocum, and who has not been seen since the boat sank, Is Katle Klem, twenty-one years old, and who lived at No, 436 East Fifteenth street. Katie had many friends, and her family is dis- HENRY UG, tracted. Her parents appealed to The Evening World for help in finding the body. Katle wan 5 feet 2 Inches in height, of light complexion, welghed 125 pounds, and wore a crash dress and high-ho shoes, There was a small mark on the centre of her forehead. She wore a garnet ring, screw earrings, and a gold watch and chain pinned to her breast A004 ——— UNDBERG 996915986 5O4409.400-1-O05406-61-46-0 EFUSED Int eave ups ba pape y \ DISASTER VIC3iit. Ulu uf : KILLED EMERSON }| New Light Thrown on Death of, $ | The World Corré.,ondent Re- - ¢ ported to Have Been Killed! ff for a Spy by Russians. : ding oral recelved by] ning World to-day Mr, Dunn th m! one the pondents for the New York Worl: Par East.hax been shot to death by the Japanese and not by the Rux-; stane. | | Words Wed In. New. York by! The World vesterday that Emerson had | be fukden by r ing | Ruaslans, who mistook him for a spy | by the Japanese, which m it im |posstble for Mim or other cor throug! had determined 1 esta jit was explained that Col. raon, | dents fn Manchuria to get despate | » Russian Unes. optr of n Shot ot Uring of the strict censorship obaerved except those censtred by the Japanese | tsh com- “| Aa | son by Th Joh was date No news can/ fy ring of ¢ ¢ light 4 pi iS ol, Emerson In an entirely Th ‘ore and after the Gen, Stackeibert was Shot to | Emerson's friends in New York are walting with much anxiety news of his| cath, Living In New York are hia two hildren, to whom he was greatly at > inched, and two brothers. A third brother and sister live in Chicago and 6-99 a fourth brother In Denver. was called to produce the names of the stockholders. The list contained about twenty-five names. It was entered as evidence but was not made public. President Barnaby was re-called to be questioned concerning the five bills for life preservers. Q. (By Mr. Garvan) The first day you testified you said every one had informed you that these life-preservers had had gone aboard the Slocum. Do you wish to change that testimony now? Attorney McManus objected and Mr. Garvan changed the question to “Was that first statement true?” Judge Dittenhoefer instructed Barnaby not to answer. Mr. Garvan brought out that the witness based his former testimony on the assumption that the life-preservers had been furnished to the Slocum. Q. Don’t you know that these life-preservers went to the Grand Re- public? A. No, sir. Q. Don't you know you can find out? A. I wish I did. Q. Don't you know that men from my office went down to the Grand Republic night before last and counted the 350 life-preservers represented by these bills? This brought Attorneys Dittenhoefer and McManus to their feet again, but Mr. Garvan interrupted by saying: 41 bring thin out because this witness came bere in bad fatth with e i bills, xaying they represented Life-pr ‘ers put aboard the Slocum when he knew na a fhot that thene life-preservers did not go on the General Slocum.’ SALARIIS OF COMPANY OFFICERS. Secretary Atkinson was recalled by Mr, Garvan. Q. What salary did the President of the Knickerbocker Steamboat Com- pany receive? A. $6,000. Q. And how miuch did you receive? A. $50 a month and percentage. — Q. What other salaried officers were there? A. Captains Pease and Van Schaick. Q. How much did they receive? A. Capt. Pease got $200 a month in summer and $100 in winter, and Capt, Van Schaick got $150 a month in| summer and $75 in winter Mr. Atkinson was ordered to produce the list of bondholders of the! company and other books. | William W. Tremiley, who had been a waiter on Pacific coast craft, | and who became a deckhand on the General Slocum on May 24, followed President Barnaby and startled the court-room with the testimony that As- sistant Engineer Brandow was on deck helping with the fire hose instead of} being in ‘the engine-room standing by. Q. You are positive it was the assistant engineer who was on deck with you? A, Yes, sir. Brandow swore yesterday that he stood by his engines from the moment} Mate Flanagan informed Chief Couklin that the sh!p was afire until she beached on North Brother Island. Chief Conklin corroborates his second. THREW LIFE PRESERVERS OVERBOARD. Q. (by Juror Jennings) Did you save any lives? A. Yes, many. Q. How did you do it? A, Well, when the people ju d overboard, £ threw thirty or forty life-preservers to them, Q. In what condition were the preservers? actly break, but they had holes in thom. This statement jarred the attorneys for the company aud for inspectors. Q. How big were the holes? A, Big as a quarter. Q. How long had the holes been in the preservers? A. Ever sinco 1! was on the boat. I think they were worn into preservers by the constant) A. Well, they didn’t ex- vibration of the ship, the wires holding them up rubbing against the pre-| servers, Q. Did you report it to any one? A. Yes, I told Mate Flanagan. the pulverized cork leaking out of them and said I had better fix them. finally told me to take down the worst ope and throw it away. Capt. John A. Pease, of the Grand Republic and Port Captain of the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, testified that he had charge of out- fitting Lhe General Slocum !ast spring. He} Q. Were there any new life-preservers bought for the General Slocum | this year? A. Not to my knowledge. Q. Last year? A. Not to my knowledge. Q. Year before that? A, You are going too far back for me now LIFE-PRESERVERS EXPOSED ALL WINTER. ' Q. Did you examine the life-preservers on the General Slocum this year? A, I did so far as seeing them In their places. | Q. Were not some of them left outside all year? A. Some of them were, Those that were exposed to the weather were ‘taken into the cabin and) plied up. They looked all right after they were put up | Q. Did you examine the life boats of the Gen. Slocum before she went {nto commission? A, I did, They were all right. thelr davits Q. You got 350 new lif*preservers on board the Grand Republic this| year? A. Yes. Q. Will you allow our representatives to go \ } down and take the num-; ‘bers off she pregervers on the Grand Republic, | old, T saw] ad I saw ‘hem hanging in | Coroner Berry said he would send men down to take the daies. Fonse contradicted Miss Hall, who sald he had told her the Slocum He said he had never told Miss ner'’s men. Capt would need new life-preservers this year. Hin.) anytaing about Iife-preservers. @. Did you ever buy any good fire hose for 16 cents a foot? body can. Mr. Garvan has bills which show that the fire hose on the Slocum cost 16 cents a foot. BAG OF MONEY CARRIED STEWARD DOWN. Thomas Ryan, a waiter, was called. Q. What did you do when the fire occurred? A. I ran up on deck and helped to get life-preservers on the ladies and children. Q. You put a life-preserver on yourself, didn't you? one on the steward and he jumped overboard. Q. What became of him? He was drowned, wasn't he? A. Yes, sir. He was holding a heavy bag of money in his hand when he jumped { Q. What became of the ladies and children? A. They all went over- board. Q. Ever see any of them again? A. No, sir. Q. Did you save any one? A. Yes, a little boy. I put a life-preserver on him and took him ashore. A nurse from Lebanon Hospital took him from my arms. He is there now. Q. How many people do you think you helped? good many. Q. Why didn’t you puta life-preserver on yourself? of it. Anyway, I can swim. J Mrs. Maria Behrends, of No. 88 Third street, one of the surety through an Interpreter, told a most pathetic story of the disaster: | “With my children we were preparing to eat lunch in the centre of the, middle deck when we heard the cry of fire. There was a great rush of peo-| ple and we were all mixed up. My children were swept away from me and), as I ran to the stairway my hands caught on the rail and they were burned, (Her hands were in bandages.) I was carried over the rail and into the water and then picked up and taken to the island in a boat. There I met my oldest daughter, who had also been saved." Q. How many children did you lose? A, Two girls, elght and ten years A. No; no- A. No, sir. T put A. I don’t know, A A. IT didn't think Q. How many of your family were lost? A. My two little girls, one) eight years old, one ten. Mrs. Behrends choked as the words came from her in a whisper. 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