The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-17
Scene on the shore Of North Brother Island,
where terror stricken people were looking
among the dead for loved ones.

persisted were accustomed to call home.
The coroner's investigation to fix tho
responsibility Of the disaster will begin
on Monday next. The Federal authors
ties, as we'll as the district attorney also
will hold an investigation, and the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, through its counsel. has siEnl-
fled it's Intention 10 push the inquiry to
the utmost.
Two boys were. arraigned in the Chill
dren's Court to-day by a detective de-
tailed for duty, among the crowd which
daily and nightly fills the street in front
of st. Marks Church. The boys are Jos.
d de De1 testIad that hath he saw Kolass
with his hand in the skirt pocket OF a wo-
man, who refused to come to court to
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Slocum and was afraid that if she left
the church she would lose word OF what
had happened 70 her babes tbs House
he could not send him to States prison,
and remanded the other lad. "a
Excursionists Review Wreck.
+ AS the Iron Steamboat Companys three
deck excursion boat Sirius went up the
ing flying and the general hubbub Of an
excursion party, as many OF the 1000 wo-l
men and children on board as could be
o Of the Geenral sIoeum, but with barred
The stean1boat cygnus passed few
minutes later the same sesn ns beinE en-,
hymn There were 1900 women and chill
dren on board.
Still another excursion boat sailed BY
women and children.
Bow Struck Dumb.
LOST Heq Tx m msfs txsys years Ga ShS
orc he went through He and his
he aas deck b nhs sGo 1893
Henry held on to the paddle wheel and
rescued 9y tug MSne
no could not speak. George declares his
mothers and aunt,s bodies were robbed
Of DIAMONDS and jeWSeslry lie sa haod MS
and his aunt two diamond rings, all of
which were missing after their bodies
were found.
Crowds Around the Morgue.
The crowd around the morgue and the
Department of Charities pier in East
5Twenty-sixth Street this evening was
much greater than last night; BY eight
al i,v to- to enter and look upon tie rows
Of bodies ranged within extended for
allowed to enter at a time, and as they
thinned out. some With their fears turned
10 terrible certainty. as they had come
face to face with the cold forms of their
loved ones, and others. reused to faint
hopes by their failure to find what they
decided they were gently shown out into
the street. and another party admitted
to undergo the heartrending, ordeal.
At ona time at least fifteen hundred
people were in the long line awaiting
admittance. besides the hundreds OF
morbidly curious persons who lined the
adjacent streets,
Despite the many curious ones the
crowd was a reverent one. Often as the
groups standing in Twenty-sixth Street
Stood and talked in low tones Of the ca
tastrohpe,
Body Washed Ashore Near It's
Home.
Fl This eyenng tho body of girl of eight
years. which was declared by the neigh
bors to be that Of the little daughter NJ
Henry Heinz, OF, Front street, WAS wash
ed up against the side of a pier at the
foot Of Clinton street In the East River,
home The tide, by a strange yagary,
had carried tho little victim of the calanl-
ity Of the North Brother Island down the
narraY channels of the river to this point