The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19
THE SLOCUM'S DEAD
NOW NUMBER 58I
HARB0R STILL GIVING UP
GRUEsoME REMAINS OF THE HAP
Ply EXCURSIONIsTS.

Besides the 5S1 Dead Bodies Re-
covered There Are still Some 400
Missing, Many of Whom UndOubt-
edIy Are Dead-Their Bodies Lie
in the Wreck or Near 1t Or Are
Being swept About on the Face
of the Waters.
New York, June 1S.-Unceasing
search for over three days and nights
has resulted tonight in the recovery
Of 5S1 bodies of victims of the awful
disaster that befell the great excursion
steamer General Slocum Wednesday,.
Although this appalling number does
not represent the full extent Of the
calamity, hopes are expressed that
comparatively few bodies remain to be
recovered. There is a possibility that
when the charred hulk is brought to
the surface a considerable number of
corpses may be found within the tam
gled mass of wreckage, which has de-
fed all the divers attempts at COM
plete exploration. Doubtless, too, many
bodies have been swept away by the
whirIing currents of He'll Gate and
carried out into the broad waters of
Long Island sound, or out past Sandy
Hook to the open sea.
The number still officially recorded
tonight as missing is 1926, but many OF
these have been accounted for. whose
names have not been taken from the
list, and others are among the dead
whose Identification is impossible.
Was a Day of Funerals.
The region in the vicinity Of st.
Marks German Lutheran Church in
East Sixth street was to-day the
scene of ia funerals, representing the
burial of nearly 200 bodies, almost all
those of women and children. Enor-
nous crowds thronged the streets. OF
the quarter and a large force Of po-
lice was necessary to prevent disorder
and keep clear a passage for the long
lines of hearses and carriages.
Funeral services were held in no
less than thirty-seven churches OF va
rious denominations in this section.
Sixteen more bodies, recovered dur
ing the day, were brought from the
scene of the wreck to the temporary
morgue at the foot of East Twenty
seventh street this afternoon. So
great was the clamor for admission to
the pier that all control of the crowd
was lost, and on the entrance to the
pier being thrown open, rush took
place, during which many persons
were knocked down and trampled on
Twenty-nine of the unidentified
dead were buried to-day by the city
in the Lutheran Cemetery, leaving but
eight bodies still awaiting identifica-
ton in the morgue.
The Executive Committee of the
Mayors Relief Committee met this
afternoon at st. Marks Church and
made arrangements for the extension
of relief to all the needy sufferers by
the disaster.
VIII Raise the Hulk.
Mayor Mcclellan authorized Police
Commissioner McAdoo to contract with
a wrecking company to raise the hui
Of the Slocum. A powerful tug was
dispatched to North Brother Island to-
night, with orders to raise the wreck es
soon as possible, and tow it to shallow
water OFF Riker's Island, where 1t Will
he searched for any bodies that may
yet remain in II.
The investigation OF the coroner VIII
begin Monday morning, and about 200
Witnesses will be examined In the ef-
fort TO nx the responsibility for the DIS
aster.
Funeral Of Unknown Dead.
The unknown and unclaimed dead,