The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-06-16
One Of the Worst Ever Happening
In This Country.
SIX HUNDRED PERISH
IL Is Believed That Many Lives We're
Lost, Nearly Five Hundred VI
Victims Bodies Recovered
In a Short Time.

and SINKING OF the DIG e~oeCheI
excursion steamer. General Slocum.
which took fire in East river near the
entrance TO Long island sound while
on her way 10 a sound resort with more
than 1000 excursionistS. the Sunday
! school pupils OF st. Marks German
Lutheran church their relatives and
friends
AT o'clock Thursday morning ac-
rording to a statement issued by Cor
ouer O'Gorunn. ass bodies had been
recovered from the destroyed vessel,
burned 10 death or drowned and found
on the shores. TO which they had been
washed or picked up in the river. to
which they had jumped or fallen from
the burning vessel.
Great preparations had been made
for the seventeenth annual excursion
~ the SUNDAY school Of St Marks
German Lutheran church the caugre-
cation Of which is drawn from the
dense population Of the lower Fast
and West sides. and he General Slo-
cum had been chartered to carry the
~Ecmrsianisis 10 Locust Grove. one OF
tho many resorts on Long Island
sound ~ Is variously sstirna ted that
there verrbrtween 1900 and $500 per
cons on board the General Slocum
whsn sha left the pier at Third street
East river. though the Knlckerbocker
Steamship company. which owns the
StocHn. officially states that the mum
h-r ~ passengers was s73 that being
only on~-thtrd OF the vessels capacity
u - thought however that there WERE
several hundred children In arms. for
whom fares are not usually charged on
these trips.
TIE scene m the deck ~ the steam
- a. size proceeded up East river was
ons ~ wetry-goAking. customary on
such OCCASIONS. The mass OF flags Out
tered lu she lame nreczeS A. fhr|
stosarH Hsehfd forward the flames
rsughf ~fsnsbtoa sind rsb}u woodwork.
eating aud tearing their Wsv across
the sees~f Vet the excur~HoHt~gz. bat
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aftefpAtt Of tho steamer 10 ape tine
heat and flames ard smoke that psre
const sntv Increasing Policemen and
derkh1ras aboard the b0at struggled
hard 40 quiet The panic. but ih~r ef-
forts we're ava vain.
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mothers sought their children VINO /
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for assistance, and rugs and other I
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