New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-18

other emergency calls to conduct funeral ser
vices should leave their addresses with the re-
lief committee. The suggestion was adopted
and about one hundred Of the clergymen' includ-
ing those Of denominations other than Lutheran
left their addresses and asked that they be
called any time.
The thanks of the ninisterium were voted to
the cemetery association which had offered free
burial plots. and. collectively. to the many min
isteriaI bodies and individuals from whom mes
sages Of coincidence and help had been received.
The Rev. DR.. A B. Moldenke. pastor Of St
Peters Lutheran Church. Fffty-fourth-st and
Lexington-ave, said that twenty-five members
Of his church and Sunday school were missing.
The St. Peters excursion, which had been ar
ranged for next Tuesday. has been abandoned.
Resolutions of coincidence were unanimously
adopted.
FIRST FUNERALS OF VICTIMS,
The first funerals Of victims Of the disaster
were held yesterday. That Of Rose Anger.
twenty years old was held at the home OF her
father George Anger. the treasurer of St.
Marks Church. who also perished No. 1853
Third-ave A thousand persons gathered in
and about the building. The Anger home is on
the second floor and scarcely more than 100
persons were able TO find room in the apart
ments. The services were conducted by the Rev.
DR.. Berkemeer OF the Wartburg lutheran
Orphan Asylum. at Mount Vernon. The burial
was in the Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village
Long Island where nearly all the identified and
unidentified dead will at the last rest.
At No. "a East Seventh-st. services were held
over the body OF Mrs Margaret Glow. who was
drowned. Ten persons were lost from the house
IN which Mrs. Glow lived. At No 313 East
NInth-st the funerals OF Mrs. Christina Beck
her daughter Mrs Johanna Norway. and her two
children were held. Mr.. Beck and Mr.. Norway, all
that were left OF the family. sat though
stunned throughout the service. apparently IN
conscious Of what passing. There were
number OF funerals from undertaking establish
ments More than dozen other funerals were
held during the day. and were marked by pitt
full scenes More than seventy have been ar
ranged for to-day. and several have been an
nounced for tomorrow.
There Will be ten policemen at each funeral
They will be instructed TO handle the crowds as
gently as possible and 10 carry night sticks
one Of the most largely attended funerals
yesterday that Of Mrs. Emily Rothmann,
wife of William Rothmann. Of No. Asa East
Seyenth-st. Mrs. Rothmann and her two sons
Thomas eight years old. and William. four
were lost, and the bodies OF the last named
two have not yet been recovered Mrs. Roth
mann was shockingIy burned the identification
DelI2S mace Dy LeE w 4444dIl
is prominent in Republican politics in the Xth
Assembly District, his father being at time
leader OF the district and president of the Prog
ress Republican Club. at No. 40 Second-ave.
BURY THIRTY-TWO TO-DAY.
Arrangements for the burial Of the thirty-two
unrecognized bodies IN the MorGue were made
at the meeting Of the Mayors committee and the
, ministers committee. The funeral cortege will
leave the NOreIe al .: 80 O'Clock this afternoon
and viii probably so by way of the Twenty
third-st- ferry to the Lutheran Cemetery. Middle
Village, Long Island plot sufficient 10 hold
about go bodies has been given by the cemetery
for the unidentified dead. Three bodies will
be placed in each grave, and each coffin will be
marked with the number given the body. 80
that II at any future time the body IS Identified
IL be exhumed.
Colonel Fred Lindsay, OF the Volunteers Of
America, with headquarters at No. IS Cooper
Square, called the church in the afternoon
and placed the Children's Home, at Darien. near
orphaned children.
Ocean View Cemetery. of No. DO Broadway,
announces that through the generosity OF a
leading citizen" a deed to a plot in the GEM
etery free of cost will be made to the nearest
relative of any victim. perpetual care guaran-
teed
An atrocious phase Of the calamity the East
Side is the activity and the heartlessness Of the
gangs OF pickpockets who circulate among the
crowds Of mourners in front of the church. In
spectOr McClusky yesterday detailed twenty
men 10 round up ali suspicious youths there.
Three youths were arrested charged with pick
ing pockets.