New-York tribune., 1900-07-02
SAD VISITS TO THE MORGUE
MANY DISTORTED BODIES BROUGHT
OVER FROM THE SAALE.

Many pathetic scenes were witnessed yester-
day at the Morgue. at Twenty -sixth-st. and the
East River. 1t was a day that will long be
remembered by the superintendent of the
Morgue and his assistants, for the majority of
the persons who visited the place were in search
Of missing friends relatives and they
could hardly contain their feelings Some of
the visitors persons who appeared TO be
IN very comfortable circumstances but most
OF them, while neatly dressed seemed to be of
the laborng classes. At an early hour two
women entered the Morgue. One OF them said
that she was the wife of longshoreman, and
that the woman with her was her sister-in- law
She had only been married two months she
said and added that she thought her husband
had perished in the disaster. Her home is at
No. 217 William-st When she called at the
Morgue only two bodies were there. They
merely charred skeletons. and they will
probably remain forever unidentified. They
were in two long pine boxes, and are known as
bodies No. l and No. 2 She shown the
burned bones in the boxes, and the sight of
them considerably affected her. Neither she
nor any other visitor thought they could iden-
tify either body
Later in the day two young men inquired II
]. Wahlau. chief engineer of the Saale had been
reported saved. AS the Morgue keeper did not
have a list of the officers supposed 70 have been
on the vessels that were destroyed and who
were thought to have been saved they waited
al the Morgue for many hours. They stayed
there in hope of learning if the chief engineer
had pershed was among the rescued. They
were allowed to examine each body of victim
of the fire brought to the Morgue as soon as the
bodies reached there. They left the place
finally without having discovered a clew as to
the fate of the missing chief engineer of the
Saale.
How long will the bodies be kept at the
Morgue?" Mr.. Rickard. assistant superintendent
of Bellevue Hospital was asked.
While they being transferred from the
Saale to the Fidelity Coroner Bausch gave per
mission to an officer of the North German Lloyd
company to take charge OF them tomorrow. I
understand that the eleven bodies so far recov-
cred will be buried tomorrow by the company"
IF the bodies are claimed and buried by the
company tomorrow the work of trying to iden-
tify them will be greatly nterfered with Such
a proceeding would be unusual one" said a
man employed at the Morgue
We'll. am only telling you what the Coroner
has said.' explained Mr.. Rickard. IF the
bodies are taken away from here tomorrow
and buried there may be a clash between the
| COroners Office and this Office" said the en-
ploye.
The Morgue keeper thought that all the bodies
taken from the Saale yesterday those OF
Worlmen. with exception.
Soon after the bodies reached the Morgue in
qullIes were Hldut TOT jacob hdIlOU, 4 painter,
OF No. l32 Second-st.. Hoboken. Harlof is sup
posed to have been employed on the North Ger
man Lloyd pier at the time the FIRE broke out
As he has not been seen since the fire It is
thought ne was burned to death
An aged woman said she looking for a
man named John Miller n longshoreman. She
thought he might nave been at work on the pier
at the time of the disaster His address could
not be learned. He is reported by his wife TO be
missing
Samuel Gordon of No 50 East Fourth-st. In
quired at the Morgue for Ignatz Schmidt a por-
ter on the Bremen. He could not Identify his
body among those in the Morgue.