The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19

numbering twenty-nine, were buried
by the city this afternoon, a special
plot in the Lutheran Cemetery having
been provided.
OF the twenty-nine bodies only one
was that of a man, there being eleven
children and seventeen women.
AS the fourteen hearses carrying
these twenty-nine unknown victims of
the disaster passed, an unusually large
crowd stood respectfully on the side
walk, making a line extending several
blocks to the pier whence the ferry
carried them over to the Long Island
shore. The men stood with bowed and
uncovered heads and by far the great
er portion of the women and children
gathered along the street knelt. Even
those who are ordinarily phlegmatic
and undemonstrative were affected by
the sorrow that all seemed to feel, and
sobs shook the frames of the women
while tears streamed down the cheeks
of the men.
Coroner Berry stated to-day that
more than 200 witnesses had been sum-
moned to appear at the inquest next
Monday.
sympathy of Emperor.
The following telegram from the
German ambassador at Washington, Ba-
ron Speck Won Sternberg, inclosing a
cablegram from the German Emperor,
was received to-day by DR.. Haas, pas
tor of st. Marks Lutheran Church:
THE following cablegram has just
been communicated to me by his ma
jesty, the Kaiser:
Being most profoundly affected by
the news of the indescribably horrible
catastrophe which has overtaken the
Lutheran congregation, command you
10 express to it my innermoSt feelings
of sorrow
In carrying out the command of
my most gracious sovereign allow me
at the same time to offer you my own
personal sympathy"
For Competent Inspectors.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, a member of
the Board of Aldermen, to-day sent a
communication to President Roosevelt
in which he says:
There is an impression here that
the federal officials charged with the
duty of inspecting steamboats, have
been negligent and inefficient and that
they are gravely at fault in not hav-
ing done what they might have done
to avoid what has happened.
Pray see that these steamboat in
spectors shall be competent and trust
worthy and If further legislation be
necessary to provide safeguards for
the future, ask Congress to provide
them"
The relief funds will have a large
addition from the city treasury a res
olution for the issuance of $4,000 IN
bonds for the succor of the distressed
victims of the accident having been
introduced to-day, action being de-
ferred because of the absence of the
required number of aldermen to pass
such a resolution.
Found Hole FILLED with Bodies.
A diver who to-day renewed the
search for victims, found deep hole
in the bed of the river practically filed
with bodies. Within an hour after the
search was begun eight bodies had
been brought to the surface, and when
he was forced to abandon work for a
time because of the swift current, he
stated that between thirty and fifty
bodies still remained in the hole.
The diver was searching along the
river bottom, and had reached a point
near the foot of the sloping lawn on
North Brother Island, where the bodies
of the first victims of the tragedy were
laid last Wednesday, when he found
several bodies lying together. and at
first the diver supposed that there were
no more than half dozen in the pile,
but upon removing several, he found a
great hole in the river bed literally
packed with dead.
He says that no less than thirty more
bodies will be found when the tide
again turns and permits resumption
of work This number, he says, may be
greatly exceeded.
One of the bodies taken from the wa
ter to-day was that of a woman, wrap
ped or entangled in a large American
flag.