Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-16

New York, June i6.-The loss of life sby the burning of the General Slocum sn the East river yesterday will ap- pxoxfmata 1000. This estimate is based on the opinion of the chief of the lire department. the coroner's of flee and the police. At l o'clock this tnfternoon 5O4 bodies lay on the marble slab, of which 155 were identified. There were reported missing 467 and the hospitals held S117 injured.
 New York. June 16.-All through the uiQht and to-day men in diving suits, others with grappling hooks, stood on the decks of tugs about the sunken wreck of the General SIocum. Now and then a. man in one of the wierd looking suits would slip over the side of tug and sink to the bottom.
 As 6 diver would bring a body to the surface a graphing hook was placed under it and it was raised to the deck of a tug. Some of these bodies were beyond recognition. When several bodies were recovered they were transferred to another tug and taken to improvised morg1es.
 How many dead lie in that charred and sunken hull cannot even be esti- mated until every nook and corner of the shell has been gone over by the divers.
 At sunrise today two divers came to the surface. Tn the arms of one were two little girls clasped in each others arms. Their hair was the same color and their dresses were alike. indicating that they were sis terss The other diver had n his arms the body of young woman which had been found with those Of the little girls. Tn her dead hand was still clasped the dress of one Of the chill dren and the divers thought that she was their mother and had gone to death with them.
 Brought into the Alexander avenue police station and tagged as one of the unidentified dead, Clara Hartman was revived while she was lviag in the improvised moTEGe
 A woman searching among the dead for relative noticed that the girl was breathing and called an annbu- lance surgeon. who found that there had worked over her for half an hour
 
 hurried to the Lincoln hospital.
 There it was found that the girl had been severely burned. but that she might recover. She could remember nothing of the awful events of the day.
 The body of Miss Hartman was picked up by one of the fleet of res~ cuing boats which was already filled with cargo of dead. There being no space for the body of Miss Hartman. 1t was fastened to rope and lowed astern of the launch and was lifted to pier on the Manhattan side of the river. On the wharf a man coming from nelghboring coal yard, carry ing a tarpauhn, wrapped Miss Hart man in the sheet and helped to place her in line with the row of dead. One of the several vehicles pressed into service for the transportation of the dead from the docks to the station houses conveyed Miss Hartman to the Alexander station, where the unknown woman made the discovery that life still existed. At the hospital to-day it WAS stated that Miss Hartman was Improving
 4 revised list of identified dead fol lows:
 Anna Alfeld, Barbara Arinbrust, Marie Abendschein, Rose Augur, SeI- ma AIbrecht
 Anne Belunken, child, Anne Blohm, Margaret Blohm, Dora Blohm. Anne Bunhardi, child, John Drumming, Lena Berg, Annie Brenning. Augusta Der rens, child, Annie Bernhordi. child. Mrs Anna Buchheidt, Catherine Bir- mingham. Emily Bozeubarr. Theodore Becker, Catherine Balsep, Anna Beck man, infant. Kate Breher child Fred Cordes, Annie Dieckhor., Will lie Dieckhoff, ch1ld Catherine Ore cioes. child.
 Minnie Ehrbard, child, Louise Engel- nan, William Eickhoff, William En- gelman. child. Jennie EyseI. child, Charles Frech, child, Mamie Flick bohm, Margaret Feldlusen.
 Edith Girroler, Elsia Graf. Grace Gade. Michael J. Gossman, child. Car lrie Gruber, child, Margaret Gates, child, Catherine Gates.
 Cortlandt Norway, John Hedenka- mo. Gus Hehl SyIva Hoffman, Henri ctta. child Katie Herman, Frank Heins, child, Johanna Hoorway, Annie lzass, Christian Heller Margaret He'd enkamp, child.
 Grace Iden. child
 George Klatbaur child. Gussie KaIg, Magdeline Kolb, Henry Kolider. child. Henry Kohler, Emma Klein. August Lubbert. child, Mrs Rather ilie Lufjen, Rose Muller. child Mrs Herman Muller Helen Muller. child, Flora Muller, Valessa Miller. Kate Morris child. Anna Museke. child. Henry Moeller. child; Elizabeth Miller. infant: Matilda Merceller. Mrs Char lrffo May Mfe Mary Hnnhernaar Mrs