The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-21

New 1Ork, June Io.-lEIOTIlS III WdS
received at the district attorney 5 office
this afternoon that Engineer Conking
who was said to have persisted in the
disaster is alive and IN hiding. County
Detectives, under the direction Of AS
sistant District Attorney Caravan. are
now looking for him. 1t was thought
that he had gone TO his home in Cat
skill.
Two boys were arraigned in the
childrens' court today by a detective
detailed for duty among the crowd
which daily and nightly fills the street
IN front eff st. Marks church. The
boys are Joseph Hornstein and Jacob
Kolask. The detective testified that he
saw Kolask with his hand in the skirt
pocket of a woman who refused TO
come to court to prosecute the boy. as
she a several small children on the
Inflated General Slocum and who was
afraid that if she left the church she
might lose word Of VIA had happened
to her babies.
The justice sent Kolask to the house
OF refuge after saying he was sorry
l that he could not send him to states
/ prison and remanded the other lad.
As the Iron Steamboat Company's
three deck excursion boats Sirius went
up the sound this morning with all Of
its bunting flying and the general hub
bub of an excursion party, as many
Of the 1000 women and children on
board as could be crowded TO the rail
and viewed the wreck of the General
l C1oatrpo h1rf u-tth hor@I on6 4rx-A
heads.
The steamboat Cygnus passed a while
later, the same scene being enacted,
and the band on board playing a hymn.
There were 800 women and children
on board.
Still another excursion boat sailed
by the wreck during the morning. 1t
was on the Barge Levy. n numbered
about 600 women and children.
Henry Heintz, II years old, who lost
his mother, his aunt, Hannah Luder-
mann and his sister Louise, is dumb
because of the ordeal he went through.
He and mis- brother George were saved
They stood in the middle deck until IL
became 100 hot, when they jumped
into the water. Henry held on to the
paddle wheel and was rescued by
men in a tug. When he recovered from
the first great shock he could not
speak. George declares his mothers
and aunt's bodies were robbed of dia-
E1onds and jewelry. He said his moth
er had a valuable diamond brooch and
his aunt two diamond rings. all OF
which were missing after their bodies
were found
When the tide turned and began tc
fall abou $50 o'clock this afternoon
the current Slackened, so that additions
could be made safely to the searching
party. Sixteen boats were aboard the
sunken steamer at this time and the
result was that in less than half an
hour II more bodies were recovered of
, the beach and one from the wreck it
self.
At the last low tide tonight, twenty
five bodies were recovered near the
wreck Of the Slocum. One of these
bodies was hat of a woman abou
forty years Of age. Around her neck
was what looked like a life preservel
covering. Coroner O'Gorman says ne
found a quantity of pulverized corR
inside the woman's waist. He thinks
she tried to save her life by donnfn~
the preserver and hat it went tC
pieces. When Coroner O'Gorman dis
severed the cork he said:
Il may use this in fixing the blame
for the death of this woman, wher
cool enough to put on the life preserv-
er and had it beer in good condition
she might have had a chance for life
Fully 80 per cent Of the victims OF
the disaster We're insured in the three
leading insurance companies, handling
what is called industrial insurance.
Captain William III. Van Schaick, o.
the Slocum who is in Lebanon hospital
told something of the disaster to Sam
uel Marx, n OF the inspectors Of thu
institution.
According 10 Mr.. Marx. the life pre-
servers had been regularly inspected
by the proper authorities in the spring
of IN present year, and only n had
been Condemned as bad VanSchaick
Mr.. Marx said. told him that all the
p~reservers were on the hurricane deck
Mr. Marx said that Van Schaick told
him that his idea in running TO the
North Brother island was to get to
shallow. water, when the people could
wade ashore. IL they mad waited, as
did Van Schaick Int his pilots, hundreds
that had lost their lives by jumping
into the river could have been saved
By reaching the beach. Van Schaick
and Pilots Var Wart and Weaver land
ed in three feet OF water.
Jacob Michael, identified the body OF
his daughter Carrie. II years old. late
IN the afternoon.
He was slowly walking along the line
OF collins when he suddenly halted and
with a moa fell to his knees in sever
al inches OF water, and reaching into
e coffin, raised the head of a child and
began to kiss the cold lips ferventiy
Earlier in the day the man had been
70 the nncrgue and identified the charred
body OF his married daughter, Mrs.