New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-16

| dated II first decided that relatives desir-
/ ing to identify their friends would be allowed
| to come on the island for this purpose but when
| the impromptu morgue became crowded, and
! more than two hundred bodies were still on the
lawns II was arranged that the bodies should
! be taken to the East Twenty-siXth-st. pier.
where another larger morgue had been I'M
! proviscd To facilitate the work of removing
bodies at night Police Commissioner McAdoo,
! who went to the island. borrowed some cluster
! lights from the Metropolitan Street Railway
| Company. These to be placed on the
lawns where the bodies lay. Mr.. McAdoo also
| made arrangements to have the bodies OF the
| dead photographed.
| At a late hour in the afternoon it was found
! that three hundred bodies had been taken
| ashore at North Brother Island and were still
being recovered at the rate of one minute.
| The lawns the north side OF the island seemed
/ covered with bodies. most OF which were those
| OF women and children. and some OF them
| charred beyond recognition. one girl, about
sixteen years old. clasped tightly in her cenched
| hands the body OF child apparently six months
/ old. Presumably they sisters.
/ OFFICERS OF THE SLOCUM ARRESTED.
| Seven men. including all the officers saved
/ from the General Slocum, were placed under
/ rest as soon as the police found them. and
/ they were all more or less injured. either by
/
! Hospital as prisoners. They We're Captain Will
lam II. Van Schaick sixty years old. who said
! he lived on the steamer: First Pilot Edward
Van WORT. sixty-four years old. of No. 3:1 West
IWeuty-hrst-st.; Second Pilot Edwin y. Weaver.
| tweity-six years old. who lived on the steamer;
! William w. Trembey. thirty-three years old Of
California. who lived the boat; Henry Can
field, forty-six years old. of No 421 Tenth-ave..
a cook on the boat. Edwin Robinson. nineteen.
t.Il mi
and James Woods. forty-fve years old. cook.
I Of No 33T Ninth-ave.
The officers missing are Michael NIcGrann.
/ steward; Edward Flanagan. mate and E. f
/ ConSIiu engineer. but it is known that Conklin
I escaped death
I ALDERMAN DOUGHERTY WORKS HARD.
There was no lack Of volunteers to do the
/ grewsome work North Brother Island but
/ Alderman John II. Dougherty. in whose district
/ the disaster Occurred-the XXXVIIIth Assembly
! Distrlct--did yeoman work. From the time the
! first body was brought ashore until midnight
| he personally kept tally sheets OF paper as
| Thomas J. Cahill. fireman attached To Engine
/ supervision OF Coroner OGorman. who with
/ sleeves rolled UP. directed the movements of
/ the men depostting the bodies.
! Coroner O'Gorman announced that he would
/ have his office open at o'clock this morning,
| so that persons. having first been to the NIoreue
and having identified body could by bringing
! the number and 4 description of the articles
| found upon the bodies have the property turned
| over TO them
! AS soon as the bodies on the island had been
| photographed In groups they were deposited in
| collins and shipped by either the Massasoit or
| the Fidelity direct to the pier at East Twenty
| sixth-st. The boats called a East hundred
| thirty-second-st. for the bodies sent from
| the Aexander-ave station by order OF Inspector
| Brooks.
CHECK TO PAY FOR THE OUTING.
Soon after dark at North Brother Island the
body of George Pullman, of No. 337 East Eigh-
feminist, was identified by card in his pocket.
| He had also in another pocket n check drawn to
/ the order of the owners of the steamer General
! SIocum-the Knickerbocker Steamboat Com
| Iany. 1t is supposed that Pullman was the
| treasurer OF the school that gave the excursion.
! and this was the check to pay for the steamers
| charter.
Between the hours of 8 and Z p. m, Rounds
men Klute and Gilloon. of the harbor police.
and these patrolmen George A. Mott. Robert
| Murphy, John p Kelly, William A. Gray and
John Healy, with George W. Reid. the Central
Office doorman. took 219 bodies out OF the water
! off the north end OF the island. The rest were
taken out by civilians in launches and row.
boats engaged by the police.
John Rice. the diver who rescued the body OF
| "Blll' Hoar from the bottom of the Boonton
| dam employed TO go down into the hold OF
| Hunts Point the Merritt & Chapman wreck
! ing tug. the William t. Chapman He worked
! The Rev. Paul Sommerlate, pastor of the Har-
Dor Mission of the Reformed Church in the
| United States, on Ellis Island told Coroner
| Joseph l. Berry. at the Alexander-ave. station
| that Mrs Ida Doering. thlrty-three years old
| the wife of the Rev. @. Doering. a missionary
| on Ellis Island, who was out of the city, had
! gone the fatal excursion. and that she was
| among the missing. together with her children
! Ida. eleven years old; Gustave. nine. and Aetna
! five. Their home is at No. j. State-st., this
! city.
INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
Commissioner McAdoo has ordered a general
| investigation started at into the safety of
all steamers carrying passengers IN this harbor
| as to their ability to fight fire, and to find ont
whether the life preservers sufficient for uss
! in of emergency The Commissioner il
is said, is convinced that the steamboat in
spectors have not made proper inspection OF
| the passenger boats and he has ordered CAPTAIN
William Bean OF the Patrol. to begin the work
| in practical manner, at once, especially upon
| the Coney Island boats
NAVAL MILITIAMEN HELP.
Commander Franklin. of the First Battalion
Naval Militia, the moment he asked for
! boats by Commissioner McAdoo assigned the
steam launch Seneca. in charge of Captain
James Goodlow. John Gardlee and Engineer w.
! T. McAndrew. and the launch Oneida, Captain
! Michael McGrath and Emil Hummen to the
work of establishing ferry between One-hun-
| dred-and-thirty-s econd-st. and North Brother
| Island. John McEwen, of the harbor police,
was assigned to assist them