New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-17
EAST SIDE WATTS FOR ITS DEAD
GRIEF STLENCED CROHDS FOLLOU7 LINES OF UNDER
TAKERS WAGONS THROUGH STREETS.
1G oa5 Uomcn Faint Laugh in MADNESS They
Of Dead and Living.

out laughing. and il was not until DR.. Rosen-
b!att from across the street. had given her an
| opiate Jhat she could be moved TO her home
No - Avenue a. where she lies on the border
land Of insanity.
Coupled With scenes like these was the quiet
suadued weeping OF men and women. Now and
then a woman would reel and faint as she heard
the names OF her dead called out Those fort
innate enough to have their people return TO
them rushed at once 10 the Bureau Of Informa-
! ton TO have The names stricken from the list
o. dead and missing and 10 give such news as
the saved ones had been able 10 tell
The Rev william T. FeIdmaun pastor Of the
English Lutheran Church Of our Saviour. at
I OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES enty-ninth-st. and Audi
bon Place. is in charge OF the Bureau Of Infor-
nation. having stayed up all Wednesday night
giving material and spiritual help 10 all that
came. Last night he Worn out by his
work and the drain on his nervous system. but
he refused 70 quit while he was able to help the
afflicted people one OF his assistants was Nor
ton Logger. Of No. 537 East Stxth-st No one in
the neighborhood knows anything about young
Legeer, who volunteered his services, but no one
has worked longer or harder
MEN AND WOMEN FALL II swOONs.
At noon the crowd had not diminished As
the clocks IN the neighborhood were striking l.
Frederick Weiss Of No. 40 First-ave tainted
and fell the length OF the steps. bruisug him
self severely. He had searched for his mother
and four sisters in the hospitals and the rnorgue
without eating or sleeping. As the last resort
he had gone TO the church. he learned that
they were all dead.
Many OF the scenes around the church were
duplicated through the day in the East Fifth
81 station. Strong men, after learning from the
desk serszants that their families lost
wept Historically. tainted or walked away in
stupor.
Joseph Englernsna of Avenue A told Ser
geant Ryan that his wife and four children were
missing, and were probably dead After max
ing q report he tainted The doorman revived
him, and he left the station. He followed
by a young girl. who entered with nearly all her
hair and clothing burned away She stood for a
/ moment dazeG before the sergeants desk. look
ing straight ahead with vacant eyes. She did
not reply to the sergeants questions, and when
he repeated them she turned suddenly and fled
Since then no one has seen her.
EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES FEARED.
The police fear an epidemic of suicides among
those who have los. their entire families, Yes
terday Edward Kline Of No. 81 Avenue A.
whose wife and five children persisted. shot him
self OF his whole family only his younger
brother. George. had been saved. In the morn
ing he visited the morgue looking for the bodies
O. his family but could not find them. He went
home quietly. and said TO one Of his neighbors'
Mrs Elmer. whose daughter. Lizzie, had been
saved:
You were lucky. Your little girl came home.
but all mine were lost. 7 should have gone
too. I have no right 10 be alive
Such bitterness has been common for the
last twenty-four hours IN that neighborhood,
and Mrs Elmer did not take II as an indication
that Kline was about TO Kill himself A Re"
minutes later she learned he had shot himself.
4 fund 70 help those in distress was started
yesterday in the church bT the Rev. T. Hotter.
Every one. bereaved, or happy in the return or
their children, contributed something No one
was TOO Door or too afflicted 10 help neighbor.
BY nightfaH nearly $1,000 had been contributed
A few gave s. or 81, but the greater number
gave quarters, dimes and nickels- Many OF
The children eagerly pressed forward with one
or two pennies tightly grasped in a grimy fist.
Probably funerals viii be held from the
church as the church officials have requested
that the funerals be as quiet and transformations
a possible. 1t would be impossible 20 hold all
the funerals at the church.
Two young sneak thieves from one OF the
numerous gangs Of East Side rowdies tried 10
take advantage Of the sorrow stricken crowd In
front Of the church in the morning The people
were so absorbed I'm the bulletins that the two
ufcknoclzets thought they had the chance OF
:heir lives. Some saw them as they began
operations and raised the cry stop thief! The
two boys ran toward Second-ave, pursued by
Patrolman Gallagher. detailed at the church.
AT the Fifth-st. station they gave the names OF
Joseph Harnestein, thirteen years old. OF No
21S East Seventh-st., and Jacob KloslSy, four
teen years old. Of No. % Rivington-st-
Among the crowd that waited all Wednesday
night and through yesterday morning at the
foot Of the stairs at the Eighth-st elevated sta
ton was George Henry Arson. Of No. l6I
FotIrth-st. His daughter and her little girl had
told him that they would meet him there on
their return. As the old man heard OF
the accident he took up his post at the stairs,
waiting for his daughters return. AS the day
and night wore on he bought paper after paper
looking for their names. They did not appear
and this kept the Old man firm I'm HIS determine
ton 10 wait Late yesterday friend persuaded
him 10 leave his post. He refused 10 go home,
but was willing 10 go 10 the church where he
could sit down, and get the news. As he was
nearing the church. child cried out. Grandpa
and his little granddaughter threw herself into
his arms The old fell TO the sidewalk
and sat on the curb. crying with JOY as the
saved. The mother had been looking for An
aou for sevsyA A00gk