Arizona republican., 1904-06-19
Hunt for SiOCum'S Dead
 Almost Ended
NEARLY SIX HUNDRED
The Burial of Two Hundred of the Victims-Investigation for Fixing of the Respon sibility Will Be Be- Begun Tomorrow Morning.

New York, June 1S-An un-easins search for over three days and uights hes resulted tonight in the discovery of 5S1 bodies of the victims of the awful disaster that befell the excursion stel-n- CT General Slocum or. Wednesday.
 Although this appalling number -l not represent the full extent Of the cal- amity, hopes are expressed that e. In- paratively few bodies remain to be rfs covered. There s a possibility tha. when the charred hulk Is brought to the surface a considerable number e corpses may be found within the tang led mass of wreckage. which has defisd all the divers attempts at complete ex- ploIation. Doubtless, too. many bodies have been swept away by the whirlins currents of Hell Gate Gnd carried Out into the bread waters of Long Island sound. or out past Sandy Heck to ths open sea. The number still recorded to- night as missing is S25. but some ss these may have been accounted fF whose names are not known from th. list, and others are among the dead whose identification is impossible.
 HE lOu III lliG NatlnllE or Marks German Lutheran church. lu East Sixth street today was the scene sf IA funerals, representing the burial ss nearly 200 bodies, almost all of wh.ek were women and children. ElOrmous crowds thronged the streets of tzss quarter and a large force of police uls necessary to prevent disorder and kses clear a passage for the long lines oe !, vices were held in no less than thirtys- seven churches of various deEOsat. s- tions.
 The divers today found a deep hots Sss the r1ver bed near the scene of the Sta- aster, filled with dead bodies. Alter eight had been brought up thirty ;o fifty. remaiped, the diver stated One of the bodies, that of a wOmaH- was found wrapped in q lBrge Amestcsa flag.
 Sixteen more bodies recovered dur ing the day were brought from tsa scene of the wreck to the temperarrs morgue at the foot or East Twenty seventh street this afternoon. So great was the clamor for admission ta the pier that all control of the erovA1 was lost and on the entrance to tsss pier being thrown open a rush tOHE
 place during which many persons wcrc knocked down and trampled upon. Twenty y-nine of the unidentified dead were buried today by the city in tho Lutheran cemetery. leaving but eleven bodies still awaiting identification m the morsue.
 The executive committee of tA,. mayors relief committee met this afternoon. at St. Marks and made ar engagements for an extension of relief privately to all needy sufferers by the disaster.
 Mayor Mcclellan today authOriZei Police Commissioner McAdoO to cOn- tract with a wrecking company 10 raise the hulk of the Slocum. A powerful tug was dispatched to North Brother i island tonight with orders to raise the
 wreck as soon as possible and tow .t
 to the shallow water off Rikers Island. where it will be searched for any bodies that may yet remain in it.
 The investigation of the coroner will
 begin on Monday morning and abOut 200 witnesses will be examined in am effort to fix the responsibility for the disaster.