New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-19
SILENT THOUSANDS WITH VET EYES FOLLOW Flu
NER4L PROFESSIONS TO LUTHERAN CEMETERY.
Tcentynne Unidentified Dead Placed in One GraUeE Side
Drained in Black-Its Streets Lined scith Mourners
THOUSANDS AT MORGUE.
Those to Whom Missing Haze
Not Returned FOIJOzC Hearses.

the cofflns were placed in hearSeS and driven 10
the little Lutheran cemetery at Middle Village.
Long Island where strangers lowered them into
the long trench prepared in the public plot
From a morgue whose attendants Injured to
suffering in its every form, showed their sorrow
at this greatest horror I'm their haggard faces
and unwonted tears; through streets lined with
people, bareheaded. reverent, by st. Marks
Church 10 the cemetery. where waited thou
sands OF mourners passed the procession. with
its twelve black hearses and two white ones.
Short. and with the simplicity of the sturdy
Lutheran. were the services. A hymn, a prayer.
a text. and the earth was shovelled back into
place, and the busy workers turned to others Of
the hundred funerals.
Before noon throng began to gather before
the Morgue. It was a throng unlike the hun
dreds who had gone there TO view the bodies ex-
posed on the long pier. 1t was throng of
mourners, black CARRIED sad faced; women who
turned unconsciously for the children who
not at their sides; men who clenched their hands
in anguish as they thought of the wife and chill
dren missing. Silent patient they stood. mute
in the fear that among the bodies awaiting
burial might be their dear
Gently the policemen held them from the door
of the Morgue. ever repeating their quiet Keep
back; please make ROOM" one hearse after
another rolled slowly down to receive its load.
Early in the day the last arrangements had been
made. The bodies had been prepared for burial.
and collins had been taken to the Morgue.
BODIES STILL MAY BE IDENTIFIED
One by one the hearses drew up at the door
Of the Morgue. The attendants carried forth
the collins, each with its number engraved
the silver plate and with a second identi1cc-
ton number on tag corresponding to the num-
Der OF the space reserved in the cemetery plot.
Two int ha arS
two black collins into the next. two black cof-
fms into the third. while the throng watched,
awed. Three small white collins. so light that
the workers hardly felt them. were loaded into
the fourth hearse. white. drawn by white
horses. From the throng broke a woman's muf-
fled sobbing. Black collins, white collins they
came hurried somewhat as the undertaken
grew impatient and the horses FESTIVE. until
the full tale had been reached. twenty adults,
nine children.
OF the numbers on each coffin Deputy Commits
sioner Dougherty kept a careful record At the
last moment one OF the bodies that of Mrs
Emma Fischer. was Identified just as IT was
about 10 be buried From the effects found with
the charred bodies other dentihcations are ex-
pected. and the authorities have taken every
means TO preserve clear record of where each
body was laid
This is so relatives may recover the bodies
II they identified later
As each hearse received its load il passed
slowly up Twenty-sixth-st. to where at the
head OF the cortege. Mr. Hogan the pri-
yate secretary TO Commissioner Tully, William
Flanagan William Lee. assistant secretary;
Herman Weisbauer. Arson Hughes and Messrs
Doyle and Lamb all employees OF the Depart
ment OF Charities. who accompanied the pro
cession The last hearse door was closed the
signal given and the procession went on by
Bellevue to Second-ave.
SILENT THRONG MOVES WITH HEARSFS
Large the throng which filed each
sion. there was no disorder. Here and there
woman, weeping bitterly. would be unable 10
90 on There was none OF the needless curiosity
which had marked the thousands OF idle who
haunted the Morgue the first and second DAYS
after the accident With reverence the street
throngs watched the long line OF hearses whose
like has never before passed through this citv
Down second-ave. the funeral turned ON
each sidewalk stretched an unbroken line of
people as far the eye could see made I'D OF
bare headed men. weeping women. young girls
who fell into each others arms. and little boys
who chung close to their parents and eazed
scarce understanding the grief which oppressed
all woman took her baby from its carria &c
tears. white haired old man. as the process
sion passed him. stood. hat in hand tears we'll
ing unchecked from his eyes
THOUSANDS BARE THEIR HEADS.
As the procession neared Fourteenth-st street
cars stopped. while their passengers sat with
bowed heads the procession passed Bust
ness in the stores along the avenue was sus-
pended Every occupant. clerk and customer
alike, lined the sidewalk to pay silent tribute
10 the dead. Windows and door lintels were
draped with Grape. flags were at halfmast on
church and schoolhouse. Little clubs the small
social club which the German loves. and the dis
trct political clubs alike expressed their sorrow
and sympathy by the halfmasted flag. the Grape
and placards inscribed with words of mourning
From every window leaned women and chill
dren silent grief stricken At every corner
stood a dense throng. gathering even as the
procession passed, in which were sobbing. black
robed figures parents who feared their children
were among the dead. school friends who
mourned their missing companions.
Down Sixth-st. turned the funeral procession.
The throng, dense along other portions of the
route. was there clustered like flies. Half way
between Second and First ayes. stands St
Marks Church Before it people were massed
eight and ten deep. On it's steps. prominent
against its weather stained bricks. stood hun
dred Across the street were five hundred sober
faced sturdy men, weeping children by the
score and sad eyed women. with tear stained
faces Directly at the front stood two soldiers
from Fort Slocum. AS the first hearse neared
them they stinened into attention" and, with
hats at left breast. stood immovable while the
long train wound past. Policemen in charge OF
the throng DOTTED their helmets. Every head