Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-06-25
The Authorities Still investigating
:. The Cause Of The Disaster
STARTING TESTIMONY IS TAKEN
The Life Rats Could Not Be Reach
cd and There is Conflict Of Testi-
n,ony as 20 Whether Any Life-5oat
Was Lowered.

Hlity FOR the terrible excursion disaS-
ter OF the past week advances. but lit
tie light can be thrown upon the mat
ter. 70 seems startling that a steamer
loaded down with women and children
should have been burned so near land.
and almost thousand helpless people !
hurled into eternity.
All along tho East river. from North
Brother Island down 20 what are
known as the Sunken Meadows. search
was made Monday for bodies Of unfor-
Inmates who lost their lives in the dis
asier 20 the excursion day. Although
more than ego bodies had been recov-
cred las- night. reports from the first
few minutes of work -, aided FIVE
more t. the total These were found /
at widely separated points and the /
Searclcrs were OF the opinion that be- /
fore enc day ended the list az missing /
woul1 be considerably decreased. They /
believe that the big steamers and other /
craft viii So stir up the water as 90
cause bodies lying along the bed az the
river % rise % the Surtacc. WrcckcF5
n work on the wreck OF the Slocum
encountered now difficulties They
were ut worh about the hull of tho
sunken steamer when they found that
instead OF the hull resting In mud as
fhev thought. ft rested on rocks which
were never known 20 exist This they
say VIII delay the work somewhat.
Several more bodies were recovered
during tho forenoon. some OF them ~
the vicinity of the wreck of tho ~iCcum.
-Four divers were at work near North
Brother Island searching f1r bodies
A diver reports that at depth OF %
feet ne has discovered a large hollow
in which he SAYS there great many
hod.cs
More than goo witnesses had been
summoned % appear at The inquest
which was scheduled 10 begin before
Coroner Berry. 10 also was planned %
have present an assistant United States
district attorney and a stonographer
with instructions from the Department
90 Justice 20 take down an the tcst-
mOny offered As fast as the notes ar,
transcribed tho evidence Will Doe eX-
amired by United States District Attor
ney Burnett. who viii in turn forwar,
the evidence. together with his opinion
there0n. 90 the Department.
"lf the evidence warrants IT. sai'
General Burnett. q shall not wait unit
the end OF the inquest before MOVING
the matter Do tho evidence is stron
enough. the Federal grand jury vii
he considering certain phases or th
case long before the inquest IA
closed"
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