The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-20
THE FIRST To DIS
COVER FLAMES
Was a COwardIy Deck Hand
Who fled Without Giving
an Alarm


bodies of the Slocum disasters vic
tins were recovered today, making
577 in all. OF these 523 have been iden-
titled and thirty Wee burned beyond
chance of recognition. The number of
missing is 329. In the hospitals are
hfty-three who were injured. all OF
whom ara progressing favorably.
Under instruction from Mayor Nc
clelan, Police Comm .ssloner McAdoo
has enter ed into a contract for raising
the hun of the Slocum and towing it to
RikeIs Island. The cost of this wo 4
will be 1900. 1t is believed many
more bodies will be found In the in
terror of the boat and under the
wheels. The original intention of
blowing up the remains OF the boa:
with dynamite was abandoned, be-
cause il was feared the bodies under it
would be mangled. The raising may
bring TO light physical evidences of
the cause of the disaster.
Many liberal contributions were
made to the Mayors fund for the re-
lief of the sufferers, including $1,000
(. f.om J. P. Morgan & Co. The present
total of the fund is s22, 900. A resolution
authorizing the city to contribute $780,
900 was introduced in the Board of
Aldermen. and. While OF failed to pass.
as there We're not enough members
present, it was made a special order
for the next meeting.
Mourning was generally displayed
throughout the city. Many business
houses were closed in the section sur
rounding st. Marks Lutheran Church.
There were 1870 funerals of victims in
this disti let, including those of the
wife and sister of Rev. George c. F.
Mas. pastor of the church.
Evidence is accommodating to show
that the fire on The Slocum was known
to the officers of the steamship much
eall.er than they admitted at the out
set. Charles Lang, who is searching
for a missing child. informed the
police that the deckhands knew of
the fire before the Slocum had passed
Fifty-sepenth street. Lang said the
flames were visible to all on board by
the time the steamboat reached
E!ghty-nnth street.
Witnesses summoned to appear be-
fore Co. o.oner Berry in Bronx on Mon
day win attempt 10 show that MEM
ber of the crew was responsible for the
fire. This deckhand admits that lie
,.at hn 10. IF n
and one of his former associates In
sists that he ran befo. anybody else
knew that there was any trouble.
More than 200 subpoenaes have been
issued for the inquest, which may last
a week. Pilots and river men will
testify about the oppo tunities 10
~eacn the Slocum before reaching Il
island and about the conditions of
wind and time. Another investigation
is to be begun at once by the Depart
Coroner Berry has supplied tie list
of his witnesses to Supe. vis.ng In
spector Rode.
A diver who today renewed the
search for victims found a deep hole
IN the bed OF the river p. acticaliy
filled with bodies. Within an hour
after the search was begun eight boG-
les had been brought to the surface.
wo.k for time because of the swift
cur ent he said that between thi. ty
and fifty bodies still remained in the
hole.
The unknown and unclaimed dead,
numbering twenty-nine. were buried
by the city tbs afternoon, a spec.a
plot i'm the Luthe. an Cemetery having
been provided. OF the twenty-nine
there being eleven children aud sew
enteen women. AS the fourteen hearses
carrying the unknown victims the
disaster passed an unusually large
c. owd stood respectfully on the side-
walks, making Line extending sever
al blocks TO the Dief. whence the ferry
carried them over to the Long Island
shore. The men stood with bowed and
uncovered heads. and by far the great
er po. don of the women and chill
dren knelt. Even those who are or
dinarily phegmatic and undemonstra-
tive We're affected by the sorrow that
all seemed to feel and sobs shook the
frames of the omen, while teai
stredmed down the cheeks of the men.
The cortege continued through the
street lined by mourning thousands un-
til it became a part of the long pro-
cession of funerals tnat were wend-
ing their way TO the cemetery.
General Daniel e. Sickels. a member
of the Board of Aldermen. late this
afternoon sent the following commun-
ication TO President Roosevelt:
i have lust returned from = meet.