New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-17

the Morgue. drawn reslstlessly from that build
ing onto the pier which has usurped the name
morgue in day.
Inside Captain Shire of the East Thirty
ffth-st. station. with two sergeants and two
roundsmen and half a hundred patrolmen keep
ing in line the throng tabulating identihcatlons
| helping the occasional relative who was over
come. White robed hospital attendants, brawny
| orderlies. half naked men from the department
boats. undertakers and their workmen moved
| from one coffin to another preparing the bodies
and arranging the means OF Identification
Identification was comparatively easy Few
| of the bodies were marred. Death I'm most cases
had been caused by drowning. but when a body
had been touched by the fire IT was charred be-
yond recognition. Up TO last evening half a
thousand bodies IN round numbers. had been
received at the Morgue. OF these 432 had been
| identified, Coroner Scholer said at = m. OF
| the two or three hundred bodies left the pier
| only some seventy were unidentified.
It was from the scenes OF Identification that
the policemen. used as they to scenes of hor-
ror. turned in grief The lacking Of a yellow
label each rough box meant poignant suf-
fering. Frequently. one body having been iden-
| titled several others would he found. and an
entire family would be grouped together. More
frequently. however. a bereaved man or woman
i
because others missing.
WOMEN sUCCUMB TO STRAIN
Side by side in the Morgue lay Christian
Schott. the nineteen-year-old organist OF s.
Marks Church. and the sweetheart he was TO
have married. Near him is his mother. Mrs
Josephine Schott Of No. 9S Seventh-st- II was
| Il family party which left the Schott home, ac-
cording 10 the story OF Edward Yost a son-in-
law. who identified Mrs Schott and Christian.
There was the mother" there were Christian.
who shyly presented his sweetheart. and Katy.
ten. and Helen. five. with Henry Seidewand. a
nephew. OF the six, three are in the Morgue
and three missing.
In the band John Zimmerman OF No. 900
Bleecker-st. His wife with her sister. sought in
vain for his body. Almost fainting she entered
| the morgue just after the Massasoit had landed
a number Of bodies The first one she saw wore
the uniform OF the band. With a hystercal
scream She fell forward on the box. Her sister
caught her up. assuring her that 1t was not
! John. NO. no" she moaned. it's George
Maurer. Johns leader" Mrs. Zimmerman was
so overcome that she was unable for long
! time to continue her search.
| Toward the middle of the afternoon long.
walng cry proclaimed that another over
wrought woman had broken under the strain.
| Mrs. Gravey. of No. ~ Seventh-st.. had found
1 the DOuy or Nef SOn rItut IputtccH years otu.
| on the arm of a friend she was borne weeping
from the building. wailing bitterly that she must
| find her other boy.
| over the body IN another little white box
! bent Mrs Louis Haag of No 210 East Four
! teenth-st needless OF the throng around her.
| gently stroking the white face and crumpled
| hands. murmuring unnteIligible endearments
/ In German. Her husband. dazed. paced up and
| down. mutterng Yes. it's Willie; it's Willie:
there's no doubt it's Willie" His brother. al
! most as much shocked. explained that there
were still two daughters missing.
NANNY" Manufacturer. bookmal1er. whirled
! down 10 the Morgue in an automobile with his
friend, DR.. Fleming. of the Grand Hotel. Hts
| sister nephew. and a niece are missing.
| Their bodies were not among those in the
| Morgue He heard that other bodies had been
| taken TO Brooklyn and Long Island City. over
| there he FASTENED. his face white with anxiety.
! as II never after the heaviest races. In an
hour seemingly he was back waiting. haggard.
| for news
Two big Germans Frederick Rheinfrank and
| his brother Gustave. wandered disconsolately
| from the Morgue TO the scene of the accident to
| Police Headquarters and abck TO the Morgue.
seeking for a trace of their families fourteen
! persons in an who have vanished. AS the day
wore on, and nothing learned. they became
| almost frantic. Frederick implored Captain
| McAvoy of the department boat Fidelity to
| take him to North Brother Island that he might
search there. While he gone Gustave
| watched the Morgue.
| Even In his own grief he able TO think
for others. He thin. poorly dressed man
| burying his face in the depths of little box,
sobbing in dry gasps
Poor fellow" said Gustav, TO an attendant
"he doesn't look as If he could afford to bury
his dead
Walking over to the man. he handed him So
forcing the money into the mans hand against
| his protests.
OF the family Of George Maurer. the band
master the head is dead. His body was identi-
| fed by his son Julius. The daughter Julia is
| missing and the mother is in hospital, badly
| injured.
or the party OF ten. most of them members
| OF Salvation Armps Corps No. 4, only one sur
Wives Henry Alt, the fourteen-year- son of
| the engineer of the Astor Libarry. Young Alt
organized the party. With him went Miss
Mary Hagenbuscher and Miss Fannie Irving.
employees of the Aston Library; Mrs Julia Dunn
and Mrs. Mollinor. of Mount Vernon. sister of
Miss Hagenbuscher Arthur Dunn. four years
| DID, the three children OF Mrs. Mollinor. and
| Ella Hoffman. fourteen. Employees of the Astor
| Library found the bodies of Mrs. Mollinor. Mrs.
| Dunn, young Dunn and Miss Hagenbuscher.
| Ella Hoffman. Miss Irving and the Afollinor
| children are missing.
! Miss Jennie Harms, who lives with her broth
err Herman, at No. 312 East Fourteenth-st.