Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-23
Rich Directors of Line
 Must Explain Killing
 of Helpless Hundreds
Inspector UhIef BIameS The
 Medd|ing Politicians

rett, who constitute the local board of this district. It was this board which gave the Slocum a clean bill of health on May 7th last and certified that i: was properly equipped with life-pre- servers. lifesaving apparatus and fire extinguishers. This board will be practically Investigating itself. i The officers of the Kpickerbocker Steamboat company. which owns the , General Slocum. are:
 President. Frank A. Barnaby; sec retary. James K. Ttkinson; treasurer, Frank G. Dexter; directors. Frank A. Barnaby. James K Atkinson, Frank G. Dexter, c. De Lacy. Charles E. Hill and Floyd s. Corbin.
 These men will be called upon by the city authorities to explain in the utmost detail the failure of the life saving appliances of the Slocum to save life. The desire for a full and thorough investigation of this calamity does not rest alone with the city au- thorities. The Society of the Pre- vention to Children went on record yesterday, through it's officers. as be- ing willing to expend every dollar in its treasury to bring to justice the men responsible for sending so many help less persons into eternity.
 The estimate given in the World yesterday that the dead would probab- ly total 700, was generally accepted last night as correct by the officials who had previously made estimates ranging from 900 to 1,400.
 Sixty-one bodies were recovered dur ing the day This brought the total according to the official figures from Coroner O'Gorman, to 532. Through an error made during the excitement on Wednesday night the record of the bodies was increased by twenty There were two sets of men placing tags on the bodies. One set should have tagged the bodies up to 200. but stopped at 1S0. The next set of men started by numbering the first bodies they received POI instead of 1S1. This mistake was corrected yesterday Almost as appalling as the spectacle of the burning and drowning of the hundreds of women and children was
 
 of the dead who thronged the morgue yesterday in the Ditiful search for the loved ones who had gone away from home on Wednesday morning smiling and happy in the belief that they were to have pleasant days outing These poor distracted people were as helpless as babies in their grief They wandered about dazed-like neo- pie in a dream. There were little children bereft of both parents and and sisters and brothers. There were fathers and mothers who had heen rendered childless. There were fath- CTS. and these were in the greater num- her who had los- wives and children Tn some terrible instanres whole fam flies had been plotted ont Si~ Brook iyn families met this awful fate.
 Funds are to be collected bv a con- mittee of men who were named bv he Mayor yesterday All the unidenti- fled will be buried with the proceeds of this fund
 The public schools, in the ne.ghbor- hood of St. Marks church were sal places yesterday. Scores of children who were to have attended them were In the morgue; others kent away bv the death of relatives. Grape flutters from scores of doors in the dirtrict bounded by Third and Eight stree5s. Third avenue and Avenue A
 That section. little city in itself.