The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-20
MANY BODIES In
SL0CUM WRECK
Sundays Harvest of Dead
From Steamer Was 49.
TOTAL so FAR FOUND 632
MISSING STILL ESTIMATED AT
MORE THAN 600.

Al I1W YORK, June 19.-Sunday s
IH harvest of dead from the steamer
General Slocum numbered forty
nine. bringing the total number of
bodies so far recovered up to 632. of
these $50 have been identified. while
about thirty of the victims now lying
at the mOrgue have not been claimed
Dy friends or relatives.
During the day thlrty-slN BODIES
were recovered and it was not until
after dark, when the great majority Of
the SearCherS had ceased TO work, that
/ the others were found.
Most of these came up from the bot
/ tom and floated iD-shOTe. They were
/ discovered by the police who were left
to watch all night.
~ lille the list of missing has been
cut down somewhat by the ideHtihcd-
tions made today eleven new names
were added TO that roll, thus leaving
tie total of missing almost as 1t was
ou Saturday, something more than 800
Search For the Dead.
Early Jhis morning the searchers be-
gan anew the work of locating the
Sl0cum's dead. Within an hour they
had recovered thirteen bodies OFF the
shore of North Brother island. Three
OF the bodies were floating and ii is
the general opinion that many more
VIII come to the surface during the
week.
Al shutdown. when work practically
ceased for the day, thirty-six bodies
had been added to the long list of
dead. Most Of these bodies were
Identified.
OF the bodies recovered during the
. IrsJ hour one was that of a man, six
were of women, two of boys, four of
girls and one was an infant.
a lfe-saYer graphing from a raft
. brought up a woman Of so and a girl
of III years locked lin eeach others
arms. A few minutes later ne brought
up the bodies of a boy years old and
a girl OF 8, apparently brother and
sister cHngiug tightly TO each other.
More Bodies in Wreckage.
Divers who went to the wreck found
the bodies of "a woman. a girl and a
boy and brought them TO the surface
They were burned beyond recognition
The divers said there are more bodies
I'm the Wreckage, thus bearing out the
statement made a day or two ago, after
1T was thought the wreck had been
cleared that many bodies remained
under the ENHANCEMENT of timbers and
iron.
one body was found f0atin0 i'm the
river near RickeT's island, while nine
teen We're brought up from the bottom
along the beach running from the is
land down to the channel ia the river.
Three men working with au lmpro-
Nsed graphic, consisting OF n hiock of
wood to which many FISH hooks We're
attached drew up the section of the
rail of the upper deck of the Slocum.
about thirty feet I'm length. The bodies
Of four women were clingius to the rail,
the fingers gripping the iuterlaced wire
roping. This is part of tine rail which
gave way just before the steamer Eas
Leached, precipitatiug $40 persons into
the water While the rail was being
brought ashore two of the bodies BROKE
away from it, but were recovered,
The funerals Of nearly hundred vic
Tins of the disaster were held today.
i'm many instances two caskcts were
carried IN the same hearse, and in some
cases Two and even three heaTses bore
away the dead of q single family.
officials Investigating.
Department officials, for the purpose
of obtaining evidence, today went over
the exact course taken by the General
SlOcUm on the day of the disaster. In
the party We're Cor0ners O'GOrman and
Berry, Captain Glider, chief of the pilot
service of the New Haven steamship
line, and Edwin N. Weaver. who was
assistant pilot of the Sl0cum on the
day of the disaster. Pilot Weaver told
of an incident he noted after the Slo-
cum caught fire. The first notification
of the fire was received from Mate
Flanagan thTOush the speaking tube
into the pilot house at a point about
100 feet south of the Bronx hills. which
is i'm the vicinity of one Hundred and
Twenty ninth street. At this state
ment ON the part of Weaver, Captain
Glider was asked by the coroner where.
If he had been i'm charge Of the boat.
he would have beached her, Captain
Glider replied without hesitation: Ar
the foot of East One Hundred and
TWenty-ninth street. which could be
made i'm a few moments"
Coroner Berry said that he was en-
tireiy satisfied with the results of the
trip Captain Van Scbaick and Chief
Pilot Van Wart were both too IN TO be
taken alOuE
Coroner Berry said also that ne had
issued am order for the detention of
the captain, pilots and crew of the
Slocum
II learned" said he. that they were
trying to escape and I asked the police
to detain everybody who was en-
pioyed ON the boat as witnesses. Some
of them have escaped and we may
never be able TO get them, but we are
after them and viii leave no stone I'm
turned to get them within our juris-
dieti0n'