New-York tribune., 1900-07-02
FEW BODIES IN HOROKEN
MANY QUESTS FOR MISSING PERSONS
WITHOUT RESULT.
BOY FROM THAT CITY PICKS UP A BODY IN
THE RIVER WHICH PROVES TO
BE HIS FATHERS.

All day long yesterday Coroner Charles Hoff-
n1ann's office, at No. 113 Jackson-st., Hoboken,
was thronged by anxious friends and relatives
of men whose continued absence from home led
them to believe that the missing were victims
Of the fire. II rumored around the city that
thirty or more bodies had been taken to Hoff-
mann's Inorgue and there was much disap-
nontment when callers in the morning and early
afternoon hours learned that Hoffman, had only
two bodies in his possession The bodies were
those of the man and woman who were taken
from the ruins about , o'clock Saturday after
noon.
The woman was identified at Q o'clock by sew
eral sailors on the Saale as Mrs. Philomena
Cordes thirty-one years old. a stewardess. Mrs
Cordes jumped overheard and was drowned.
pathetic incident in connection with the death
OF the stewarde5s is the fact that recently she
became reconciled to her husband, living in
New York. from whom she was separated five
years ago, when he lived in BremerhaYen.
Cordes, it is said, on leaving his wife and chill
dren. found employment one of the German
ships, and his wife subsequently, got a place
as stewardess on he Saale. The couple met in
Hoboken several weeks ago, patched up their
differences and Mrs Cordes promised TO return
to her husband and start housekeeping in Ho-
hoken. Mrs. Cordes's children are in Bremen
haven.
The body of the man taken from the river Sat
urday afternoon was incorrectly identified last
night as Carl Schumacher. a Hoboken long
shoreman. Schumacher was found alive yester-
day Hundreds Of persons gazed at the body
and were unable to identify il. The corpse was
that Of a man about thirty seven years old five
feet ten inches in height and weighing about
one hundred and ninety pounds. Both arms were
covered with tattoo marks, including the figure
of man on horseback. Across the chest was an
eagle with stars and stripes, over which were
the words "Veldt Zum Mehl,'' meaning From
land to sea" A key found in the dead mans
clothes which belonged to a locker on the Saale
number of the of the Saale saw the
body at o'clock last night and said they posi-
lively identified 1t as that of Fred Eriter fire.
on the Saale.
At : o'clock yesterday afternoon the body OF
Henry F. Kardel, ffty-two years old OF No 40T
F3loomfeld-st., HobOken. a longshoreman en-
ployed on the Bremen piers, was taken to Hoff-
mann's morgue. Kardel was a chanceman on
the Hoboken Police Department. and while wait
ing for an appointment as patrolman eked out
existence on the piers
Among those who went out In rowboats in
search of bodies Joseph Kardel, nineteen
years old. son Of the dead man. A body was
found, and young Kardel had hold of the rope
which pulled il in. He did not know until the
boat reached the shore that the corpse was that
Of his father, Kardel's body was first taken to
the undertaking establishment of John ODon-
nell, the official morgue keeper in Washington
st, and afterward removed to Hoffmann's
al the request Of the dead mans family.
KaTdel was we'll known in SchuetZen circles in
Hoboken. He leaves a widow and four children
Archdeacon William r. Jenvey, rector of St
Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, in Hud-
son-5t. HOboken, called at Hoffmanns morgue,
in that city, at 4:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon
and offered his church and his personal services
IN order that the bodies of any victims of the
disaster taken to the morgue and unclaimed
by friends might receive Christian burial. Some
Of the poor fellows, he said. may not have
relatives or friends on this side Of the ocean
wish that the Coroner would let me know of any
be open al any time for funeral services. ! do
not want any Of them 10 be inferred without
Christian burial.