The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-19
MORE ARE
RECOVERED.
Sixteen Bodies Of Victims Of
General Slocttm Disaster Taken
From the River Yesterday.
MANY FUNERALS YESTERDAY
The Number Of Missing Nov Nov
A,nounst to Three Hundred
and Twenty-Five.
nv Associated press.)

NEW YORK, June 1s.-Unccasing
search for over three days and nights
hns resulted tonight In the recovery OF
ss1 bodies OF victims Of the awful dis
aster that befell the great excursion
steamer General Slocum Wednesday. al
though THU, appalling number does not
represent the full extent of the calamity.
hopes .ate expressed that comparatively
few bodies remain to be recovered.
There Is possibility that when the
charred hulk is brought to the surface
Il considerable NUMBER of corpscs may
he found within the tangled mass OF
$wreckage which has defed all the
divers, attempt TO complete exploration
sDn,,btless. too. many bodies have been
swept away by the whiring currents OF
Hell Gate and carried out into the broad
wa tors az Long Island Sound. or out
mast Sandy Hook II to the open sea-
OVER 800 STILL MISSING.
The number still officially recorded to-
night as missing is 1926, but many OF
these have been accounted Tor, whose
names have not been taken from the
list. and others are among me ueAu
whose Identification Is impossible.
The region IN the vicinity of st. Marks
German lutheran Church, In East sixth
street. was to- day the scene Of ia flu
nerals, representing the burial OF nearly
200 bodies. almost all those OF women
and children. Enormous crowds throng-
ed the streets of the quarter and a large
force OF police was necessary 70 preVe y.
disorder and keep clear passage lor'
the long lines OF hearses and carriages arr
Funeral services were held in no j less
than thirty-sevenSc churches o. various }tuA e'-s
nominations in this section
SIXTEEN BODIES RECOVERED.
q sixteen more bodies, recovered during
the day. we're brought from the scene
OF the wreck to the temporary morsue
at the foot Of East Twenty-scventh4 street
this afternoon. sf So great was the; clamor
for admission to the pier that all con-
troll of the crowd was lost. ana on tIe
entrance, the pier being thrown OPEN q =;
rush took place, y during whlcn lll tiy
nersons were knocked down and stamped
on. TX !,
Twenty-nine OF the unidentified dead
were buried to-day by the city, In the
Lutheran Cemetery. leaving but elght
bodies still awaiting Identification IN the
morgue. The Executive Committee OF
the MAYORS Relief Committee met this
afternoon at ST. Marks Church and made
arrangements for all Of the needy su l.
ferers by the disaster.
WILL r Use THE sLocUM.
4 Mayor Mcclellan day authorized Poi
lice Commissioner McAdoo to contract
with a wrecking company to raise a the
hull OF the Slocum. "A powerful tug was vas
idjsoatched to North Brother Island to-
right, with orders to raise the wreck a.
soon as possible, and tow 1t to shallow
waterioff Ricker's Island. where It Will.
be searched for any bodies that may yet.
remain init 4,
.rhe Investigation Of the coroner will.
begin Monday morning, and about 200
witnesses will be examined in the effort
10 fix the Responsibilities for the disas-
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