The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-17

al EW YORK, June 16.-With unCeas-
~ ing effort search is going on for
the bodies of those who persisted
yesterday on the General sI0cum.
what the list OF victims VIII total
scarce any one dares venture d guess.
but what ever the number may Doe.
Nhefe is hardly a parallel 300 the his
sorry Of disasters where death came 20
80 many IN so brief period of time
Police and health department officials
have placed the number at a figure as
high as 1000 and more. but tonight il
would seem that the maximum
fatality viii not largely exceed 200.
Looking For Loved Ones.
All day long from sunrise until dark
ness shut Off even the melancholy
a satisfaction of watching for the dead.
( anxious searCEers kept up their vigil
auce and at dusk there had been re-
covered $50 bodies. for the greater part
women and children, mothers who
weeks ago had planned that fatal out
ing Tor their children. little ones who
had loHged for the coming OF the
happy day.
Up TO dusk 4gg bodies had passed
Through the morgue and of u.ese more
IMAM 500 were identified. The east side
ldu IT'S human sympaIuies aroused TO
the FULLEST extent and down by the
river where the boats uuIoaded their
dead, thousands gathered throughout
1ne day, Streets leading TO the mOrgue
We're blocked and only with difficulty
could the police keep clear the passages
leading TO the long rows of collins for
those VINO came TO search for the
missing,
Divers at Work.
Up the sound where the hulk OF the
General Slocum lies submerged show
1ug only paddle box. scores of small
craft aided the tugs I'M graphing for
the victims Divers went down time
ana time again, and when their work
ended Tor the day they declared there
Were no more bodies in the wreck. 4
core OF TIMES a diver Te-aDgeared
aitef MS plunge with the body of a
woman or child Two of them com
ms 20 tEe surface together ON one Oc-
Saslou mad In their arms two little
girls, sisters Clasped I'm each others
embrace, and their mother. it was
lhoughL whose dead hand tightly
Cleneued the skirt OF one of them
AS far as they could. the divers
eeaIcned the wreck from stem TO
stern, but there were masses OF broken
NimDers through which il was almost
impossible 10 explore
AT this point the water is deeD and
1ne currents are swift and beyond a
DOUBT many bodies have been borne
a4ohs with the tide, TO Doe giyeu up on
q later day at some distant point
Many Missing Are Safe.
There are a number of places where
the IFlu8 may have landed and it is
believed that many that are now re-
ported missing are safe and eventually
VIII De heard from by the officials who
nave the rescue work i'm hand Indeed.
tonight, q surprising number of Der-
sons reported TO these officials that
1hey had been saved, thus cutting the
list OF missing down cousideFa bIv. as
VI eli as the probable mortality list
Many persons were injured i'm the
panic that followed the breaking out
or uames ON the SlOcum al least 200
persons We're taken TO the hospitals
Not a death has occurred inn the hos
UitsIs-
Perhaps the most remarkable case iu /
the many appalling experiences of
those who were on the Sloeum was thai
or Miss Clara Hartman. who was I
picked up for dead. towed behind y
boat for several miles. was Erapued &
ll Tapulln. was tagged and then .
recovered cOusci0usuezs. Tt is NOW br- I
lleEed she viii recover.
VaIuables Recovered.
Although q great number of the .
bodies were mutiIated and cl8fhfua
badly burned, EaluabIes have been
taken from the dead Go the amount Of
500 UJ9
Mayor Mcclellan today. after re-
G. - ing messages or coincidence from
many sources, visited North Brother
Island and later visited the moreue.
lie issued proclamation To the citi-
ttn5 OF New York and appointed re-
l.EL committee or prominent men. RE-
lief viii bee needed I'm that little east
side territory which the vast majority
or those that persisted were accustomed /
20 cali home
The c0rOner.s Investigation TO FISK the
possibility for the disaster viii be-
Sun on Monday next The federal
au- horiries as well as the district at
tolH6y- win hold am investigation and
the Society for the Prevention of
cruelty to Children. through it's couu-
SCI. has siguihed it's intention 90 push
the inquiry TO the utmost.