The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-26

FIREMAN John 0. Thonpkins, Eas
Albany, body still in river.
Samuel Williams, Buffalo.
Thomas Riley, st. Louis.
w. H. G. Myers, fremont, N. Y.
A. G. Mckay. Harlem, body still II
river.
b. A. Green, Chicago.
William E. Schneckenbecker, Newark
Newark, N j., otherwise known as VIII.
liam S. Becker.
Guisseppi Taguana, New York city.
Mrs. Robert Lindsman, Utica.
Unknown woman.
Chin Lee Song, San Francisco, on his
way to New York to make it his resi-
dence.
Chin Fong Hop, brother of Chin Lee
Song.
Hoo Woh, New York.
Lee Tong Sing, New York
Unknown Chinaman with letter to
Hop Sing of Newark, N. ].
Wong Gin, residence unknown.
Unknown Chinaman.
Unknown Chinaman.
The number is nineteen, as sent last
night by the Associated Press, and
there is little doubt tonight that this
is the total list of the killed. The
bodies of the engineer, fireman and Mr..
Van Etten's secretary are yet in the
river, with small hopes of their imme-
diate recovery.
The incidents and features of the day
have had a tinge of the dramatic
around them, the contrasts of light and
shade being somewhat remarkable.
Had it not been that torrents of rain
poured down all the afternoon the New
York Central railroad people would
have had an excursion upon their
hands larger than any one for many
years AS it was, train load after train
load of curiosity seekers either landed
at the stations near the point of the
wreck and walked through the drench-
ing rain to stand there and stare at
the burning embers and multilated cars,
or else rode down on the trains to the
vantage point.
There was a similar display of Curl
osity at Cold Spring, where the sixteen
dead bodies lay. OF those sixteen dead
eight were heather foreigners, whose
names or residences meant scarcely
anything to the general public, and yet
six of these eight were identified and
claimed long before any person had
come forward to inquire or seek for two
well dressed and evidently very respec-
table Christian white women, the only
women killed in the wreck. In the
morgue they lay for the full two days
unclaimed, and unsought evidently
while the other dead were claimed and
taken care of. The sixteen bodies that
were held at Cold Spring for identifica-
tion and the claim of the relatives We're
divided between the undertaking firms
Of Mr. McKeel and Mr. McIlvary All
Gay long these places were besieged by
crowds of the curious, but only those
who might in any way establish the
identity of the victims were admitted
to look upon them.
The first body identified to-day was
that of Samuel Williams of Buffalo,
who died after being taken out of the
wreck and while on his way to the
Peekslliil hospital. The body was re-
moved from Peekskill to Cold Spring
last night, and this morning it was
identified by the mans brother, FL. C.
Williams, and Rev August Goetz pas
tor of the Bartholomew Evangelical
church of Buffalo A pathetic picture !
was presented by the brother and his !
pastor as they ciasped hands over the /
body Of the dead man and wept to-
gether. The body was shipped to Buf-
falo this afternoon.
Early in the day the Cinnamon, whom /
Il was supposed would have to be bur
led at the county's expense, were for
the most part identified by prominent
Celestials from New York All but two |
or three were identified by Sam Ping
Lee, vice president Of the Chinese Equal
Rights Leag1ie oc New York, and by
Charles Sing, an Americanized China
man and court interpreter of New
York Most Of the Cinnamon lived in
New York. Chin Lee Song and Chin
Tong Hop were brothers, who lived in
San Francisco and were on their way
to New York to live, being in charoc
Of their father. Chin Quong Hon of New
York, who is now among the injured
in the Peekskill hospital. Hoo Wub
fifty years Of age, and for number Of
years resident OF New York. was ON
his way home from visit to San Fran
cisco.
During the afternoon q number Of
employees of a Mott street undertakes
reached Cold Spring prepared to take
the eight dead Mongolians to New yorlr
for burial. They were acting for their /
"Chong Wah Kung Saw" a Chinese
benevolent society, which had planned
10 have the eight victims buried in tho
Celestial spot in Evergreen cemetery
tomorrow The undertakers brought I.
with them eight collins. The New
Workers got the necessary burial per- !
nits from tine coroner and this evening
the Cold Spring undertakers took tile
bodies to the railroad station to turn
.hem over to the friends of the China
men from New York city. The local ,
had already placed the
bodies in coffins and the other under :
.akers refused to take the bodies unless
hey were taken out of the Cold Spring :
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