Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-20
EAST RIVER STILL
 GIVING UP ITS DEAD
Several More Bodies Taken From Vicinity of Slocum Wreck To-Day-Hull of Vessel Rests on Bed of Rock-Was Supposed to be in hud-Some of the Pathetic Incidents of the Sad Affair.

New York June 20.-All 0long tue East river from North Brother Island down to Hell Gate search was made to-day for bodies of victims of the Slo- cum disaster. Although .632 bodies had been recovered last night, reports from the first few minutes of work to- day added five more to the total. These were found at widely separated points, and the searchers were of the opinion that before the day ended the list of missing would be considerably de- creased, They believe that the big steamers and other craft will so stir up the water as to cause bodies lying along the bed of the river to rise to 5 the surface.
 Wreckers at work on the Slocum to- day encountered new difficulties. In stead of the hull resting in mud, as they thought, it rests on rocks which were never known to exist. TiGB they say, will delay the work somewhat.
 More than 200 witnesses had been summoned to appear at the inquest which was scheduled to begin before Coroner Berry. 1t also was planned to have present an assistant United States district attorney and q stenogra- pher with instructions from the depart ment of justice to take all the testi- mony offered. As fast as the notes are transcribed the evidence will be ex- amined by United States District At torney Burnett, who will in turn for ward the evidence together with his opinion thereon, to the department
 If the evidence warrants 1t, f said General Burnett to-day, II shall not wait upon the end of the inquest before moving in the matter If the evidence Us strong enough the federal grand jury will be considering several phases of the case long before the inquest has closed"
 Tn addition to the interest which the department of justice was taking in the inquest K. K. Smith, the legal rep resentative of Secretary Cortelyou of the department of commerce and labor, was under instructions to keep that department thoroughly advised as the inquest progresses.
 It was expected that striking facts would be adduced at the inquest, for in addition to the proof that the life preservers were rotten, that the fire hose burst, that the lifeb0at dayits would not work, and that the life rafts were so fastened to the decks that they could not be moved, Coroner Berry Is said to have evidence that many of the ring preservers were so heavy that they sank like lead. Two bodies were
  these ring preServeTs upon fheIn. An other charge which the coroner is to investigate is one to the effect that a portion of the guard rail to which ff- teen bodies were found clinging when it was raised from tha bottom of the river yesterday, was rotten and worm eaten.
 Several more bodies were recovered during the forenoon, some of them in the vicinity of the wreck of tSs-> Slo- cum.
 North Brother Island searching for bodies.
 One diver reports that a 0noth of ninety-fve feet he has discovered q large hollow in which he says there are Il great many bodies
 A resident of Jersey City named Workman, who lost two daughters in the disaster, went home last night and shot himself In the head, dying almost instantly. He had visited the scene of the wreck and later attended memorial services. The suicide was not reported until to-day.
 One of the most pathetic cases m connection with the burning of the Slo- cum is that of q German woman and her young daughter. They lived in an east side tenement The woman came to America with her husband several years ago, leaving a baby girl behind because of their poverty The hus- band fell into evil habits and ran away. His wife managed to eke out an exist ence and had, after a long struggle, saved enough money to send for the daughter in Germany. She is now on the ocean. Meanwhile, taking her sec ond child. the poor woman went on the Siocum for breath of fresh mir. She was brought up dead from the wreck age with the child locked in her arms,
 The name of the steamer on which fbe first child is a passenger cannot be learned and the relief committee is ar ranging to have n watch kept at the emfgrant station for her.