The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-17
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loved ones who had gone away from
nome Wednesday morning, smiling
and happy In the belief that they were
| TO nave atpleasant days outing.
These poor dtstricted people were as
helpless as babies in their grief. They
wandered about dazed-like people in
dream. There We're little children
bereft of both parents and sisters and
mothers who had been rendered child
less. There. We're fathers. and these
were in the greater number, who had
lost wives and children.
In some terrible instances whole
families had been plotted out. Six
Brooklyn families met this awful
fate. s.559s @.'s
Baby Saved from Dead.
There is little blue-eyed, golden
haired baby, plump, dimpled and less
than year old, that creeps about the
tai, prattling in it's baby way, and
wondering what all the tears are
about.
The mite was washed ashore just
after the accident yesterday and
picked up on the beach Of North
Bfother island and placed among the
dead. A nurse seeing a flicker Of life
in the child removed it to the hospital
where the little one was brought back
| to consciousness. It's parents are not
| known.
200 Saved by Late Social.
Because a social in the Reformed
church in the Bronx lasted until al
most midnight on Tuesday, 200 per-
sons We're saved from sharing the same
fate as the 3excursionists on the Gen
eral Slocum.
Rev. Mr.. fKetner, pastor of the
church, his wife and children, and 200
pre- aration to join the members Of
the st. Marks church on the excur-
sion. The social lasted so late, how
ever, that the members of Rev. Mr..
Ketner's flock decided they would not
go on the Slocum and shortly before
word to Rev. Mr.. Haas that his parish
toner's had abandoned the, trip.
Sympathy of Cities.
From foreign countries and from
the chief American cities outside of
New Y ork there came to-day to Mayor
Mcclellan official and private mes
financial aid for the survivors of the
General Slocum, disaster. One of the
earliest was received from Sir Thomas
Upton, He coupled his expression Of
sorrow with an offer Of $1,000 for the
sufferers. >,s.s s.s,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati Cleveland
and Chicago, thru their mayors were
prompt. in rendering coincidence and
aid Answers were sent by the mayor
to all the messages, thanking the
senders and assuring them that New
York would be able to furnish all the
relief required.
Sister Steamer Needless.
While the divers and others were
busy looking for bodies to-day the
steamer Grand Republic, the sister
ship Of the General Slocum, passed up
the river with q party Of excursionists
on board. Every deck was crowded, -
AS the vessel neared the point
where the divers were working on the
wrecked vessel, the police boat
Patrol whistled forethe Grand 3Repub-
lie to slow, down SO AS not to& disturb
the divers, but according to the police,
no attention. was paid to the warning
signals. s.
1t was orly.When the Grand Repub-.
lie was almostSupon the divers float
and the wayessssR:asiade by the vessel
began to make the float rock and
sway, that the pilot seemed to- realize
that hesshould obey the signals, and
slow down.
BY Nthe time The Grand Republic
was abreast OIL the Wreck, however,
all steam was put on again and the
boat proceeded up the sound. 81 2
The superintendent of the Lutheran
cemetery at Newton, Queens borough,
said to-day that about 100 applica-
tons had been made for the burial
of victims of the General Slocum dis
aster, and that fresh applications were
being constantly received.
More than fifty of the Slocum's dead
were laid at rest in the burial ground
to-day, and a far larger number will
be buried tomorrow, when it is ex-
pected that the interments would go
up into the hundreds For several
days after that succession Of burials
of victims is looked for at the ceme-
terry.
A pathetic story was contained in
the report made to the St. Marks
church information bureau to-day by
Miss Helen Goldstrurn, a teacher in a
public school in the heart of the:
stricken district. Miss Goldstrum gave
instructions to a class Of twenty lit
tie girls and six boys. After the acct
dent she made a canvass of their
houses and found that nearly twenty
members of her class were dead or
missing with no hope of any being
found alive. The bodies of twelve of
the little girls have been recovered.
Five Of the six boys were saved.
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