The evening world., 1904-06-15
SAD SCENES AMONG
CROWD At MORCUE
Hundreds of People Waited to Identify
Bodies of Their Relatives Mengnus
Hartung Lost His Wife. Five Daugh-
tiers and One Son.

The cene on the Department of Corrections pier at the foot of East
Twenty-sixth street, before the tugs came down the river bearing bodies O
the dead. we're phiful beyond description. The news that the bodies were
70 be taken to the pier attracted a great crowd of bereaved ones. whose walls
and cries could be heard as far away as Second avenue.
~ or the numbers Of pathetic figures non as more expressive OF extreme
grief than that Of Mangnus Hartung, a tailor, No. 10 West Twenty-ninth
rtreet, who lost his wife and six children in the disaster. The family whose
lives were snuned out by the fire or by drowning consister Of Mrs. Mary
Hartung, Miss Frances Harung, twenty years old. a sunday-school teacher
of st. Marks Church Louise Hartuns, twentyfour years, who sang ip the
thdr Of the church; Harry. fifteen Miny, thirteen; Clarn, eleven; Elsie, five.
Two hours before the tugs bearing the bodies arrived at the pier the po-
lice were compelled to rope off the dock and keep back the pressing throng
Of stricken mothers, sisters. fathers and children. The reserves from the
East Twenty-second street, East Thirty fifth street and East Fnty-hrst street
station had to be called o o handle the throng.
The Charities Department steamboat Fidelity arrived at the East Twen-
ty-sixth street pier at $50 o'clock. carrying the bodies of thirty-two women
and eighteen children. the majority burned beyond recognition.
When the boat arrived the pier and street all the way from First ave-
nue. was thronged with people The crowd pressed forward n a great rush.
weeping back Capt Shire, of the East Thity-hhh street station and the
Gordon Of twenty-five policemen who guarded the dock
The police werec compelled to use their clubs to push back the strus-
Cling people and make a lane through which the bodies could be carried to
the Morgue. Commissioner of Charities Tully had provided pine boxes for
the bodies. in which they were placed a fast as they we're brought In.
First the bodies were numbered, and whatever belongings we're found in the
clothing we're tagged with the same numbers
As the crowd grew to great proportions 1t was decided not to allow any
one in the Morgue until all the bodies had been transferred there from both
the Fidelity and the Massassoft.
The bodie, were all laid out in the main lobby OF the morsue In SUCH n
v,x tina. aisles extended between them. 5 o that when the doors re thrown
nrsn TN relatives may be let in In single flo to Identity them, though the
greater number are so injured that recognition Will be Impossible,
\ The bodies Of twenty-seven ONE M sew" on'.sn .a. =. ss o." Wy y.
sme in the session-room Of the Alexander avenue police station early this
afternoon. Bodies we're being taken In avery II" INV I" sf"'' ""'"'
meat carsa and all sorts Of vehicles.
T over 1000 persons hned the sidewalks and streets around the station
kouse. II was a quiet, anguish stricken crowd. waiting trembinsy for an
opportunity to look at the bodies and SCI If anydedr friend or relative was
lying dead there. All we're allowed to pass through the seSson-Foom N IN
The body of Mrs. Mary zolmer. of No. 1923 First avenue. was Identified
y her husband nr J sMn : zG1ms,' tH who % sad I'M hi s. wMe haa '1 T%e sG Ht e eiF tSes n
81; fs.d Ss@o v W . a a 9sy: Il '9 nraans ss ,1 sars ss@f streets. sSa; who %S Ss 't ss o atnd1 was was
discovered to BE- IN fame, s. the 10th. other s elevator y 2. hoy sy E a away nv m but ,5 10sspn
Is Il, s ana smoke Sd: s and carried i, down sn1,y;n AVE- E p s%s w. who j., but t for nnn sT Ne
siocumfs long list of dead.